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Comment on Listing the Coaster Brook Trout

April 16, 2008 – 3:39 pm

Coaster Brook Trout
Action: Comment on listing the Coaster Brook Trout on the Endangered Species List

Comments must be submitted by May 19, 2008
Directions: The US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has made a finding that the petition to list the coaster brook trout as an endangered species does in fact present substantial information warranting consideration. [...]

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Kennecott's Lobbying Information

April 13, 2008 – 4:54 pm

Lobby ID#:
009093

Registrant's Name:
KENNECOTT MINERALS COMPANY

Lobby Type:
Lobbyist

Date Became Lobbyist/Agent:
02/10/2004

Signatory/In Care Of:
Mailing Address:Phone:
DAVID J SALISBURY
224 NORTH 2200 WEST
SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84116
(801) 238-2400

Residential Address:Phone:
224 NORTH 2200 WEST
SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84116

Business Address:Phone:
224 NORTH 2200 WEST
SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84116
(801) 238-2400

For Lobbying purposes in the State of Michigan,
KENNECOTT MINERALS COMPANY has hired:

Employee
ID#
Employee Name/Address
Yr-Cycle
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Date
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A 009099
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Racing the devil: Kennecott kept quiet while fixing dangerous dam

April 4, 2008 – 4:46 pm

Racing the devil: Kennecott kept quiet while fixing dangerous dam
Tribune Editorial
Article Last Updated: 03/27/2008 05:22:27 PM MDT

Store a mountain of mine tailings behind an earthen embankment that hovers over homes. Saturate with water, trapped by an impermeable base. Shake vigorously in an earthquake until the sopping wet waste liquefies [...]

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Join Eagle Project Manager Jon Cherry for the Annual Institute of Lake Superior Geology

April 4, 2008 – 4:44 pm

The Institute on Lake Superior Geology is a non-profit professional society with the objectives of [...]

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Cyanide-Leach Gold Mining and Environmental Conflict

April 4, 2008 – 4:40 pm

Dr. Konak studied the strategies, networks and discourses of the movement.
Her presentation would revolve around the following questions:
What types of strategies/types of actions that the movement actors use?
What are their networks, what are their contacts?
How the actors frame or define the issues, problems, what are their concerns?
Did the movement reach its ultimate goal? How and [...]

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Michigan ranks last in the region in conserving and respecting water use

April 4, 2008 – 4:30 pm

April 3, 2008
For Immediate Release

Great Lakes Author, Historian: Michigan’s Hypocrisy May Kill Great Lakes
Compact
Analysis shows Michigan must act swiftly, aggressively to protect water from withdrawal and
establish conservation practices

Great Lakes historian and author Peter Annin, in an article in today’s Detroit Free Press, warns that the eight-state Great [...]

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Facing Mining: What Rights Do Citizens and Landowners have?

April 2, 2008 – 1:42 pm

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Permits Issued for Uranium Exploration

April 1, 2008 – 3:08 pm

by: Eartha Jane Melzer
The National Forest Service has granted permits for Canada-based Trans Superior Resources Inc. to explore uranium deposits within the Ottawa National Forest in the western Upper Peninsula.
In a little-noticed Feb. 15 announcement approving the mining company exploration, the Forest Service stated that the uranium prospecting would have "no significant impact" on public [...]

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Earth Day Music Jam & Concert

April 1, 2008 – 3:00 pm

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