LANSING (AP) — Key lawmakers reached a deal Monday to strengthen the state’s regulation of large-scale water withdrawals, paving the way for Michigan to approve a regional agreement preventing Great Lakes water from being sent elsewhere.
The legislation may reach Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s desk by the end of the week, with votes coming as early as [...]
School: Leland Public School
Introduced By: Kenyon McFarlane and Sarah Jane Crimmins
Grade: 9
A bill to place a ban on metallic sulfide mining throughout the state of Michigan.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Section 1: This bill shall apply to all persons/companies in the state of Michigan.
Section 2: Persons/companies shall be defined as all businesses, corporations, [...]
EPA outlines plan for Gilt Edge cleanup
By Journal staff
The federal caretakers of the former Gilt Edge Mine south of Deadwood are seeking public comment on a $58 million plan to treat water and remove or seal pollution sources at the defunct open-pit gold mine.
The Gilt Edge Mine was part of a mining district that bore [...]
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Mining company surveys Marquette County by air
Associated Press
10:49 AM CDT, June 17, 2008
MARQUETTE, Mich.
A company hoping to operate a nickel and copper mine in Michigan's Upper Peninsula already is looking for other possible mining sites in the area.
Kennecott Minerals Co. is conducting an aerial survey of western Marquette County. A plane is flying a grid [...]
Press Release: National Native Day of Prayer,
Friday, June 20th, 2008:
Aztalan to Koshkonong Mounds Run
Observances and ceremonies will be held across the country on Friday, June 20, to mark the 2008 National Day of Prayer to Protect Native American Sacred Places. The events serve to emphasize the need for Congress to enact a cause [...]
Kennecott’s latest low flying air surveys in which project manager Jon Cherry describes as “similar to an MRI” is yet another appalling display of this company’s arrogance and power. Another example is the contractual manipulation of our local electric co-op into a multi-million dollar commitment to carry a heavy power line through rural Powell and [...]
Mergers of mining companies are booming
By Ambereen Choudhury and Brett Foley
Bloomberg News
Salt Lake TribuneArticle Last Updated:06/14/2008 12:48:47 PM
Metals are the new green on Wall Street, as mining has displaced financial services to become the biggest source of mergers and acquisitions.
The value of announced mining takeovers more than tripled to $199 billion in the [...]
Will the Great Lakes become a nuclear dump?
No way!
But unless we join together and make our voices heard, the Canadian government will build a site right on the shores of Lake Huron to store radioactive waste from 20 nuclear plants for hundreds of years.
As if that wasn't bad enough: Oil company Shell Canada [...]
Bill Sells Superior National Forest Land to Polymet
Duluth News Tribune - 06/06/2008
Legislation in the U.S. House would sell 6,700 acres in the Superior National Forest to the Polymet copper company without an environmental assessment or public input.
The federal land is precisely where the company hopes to mine for copper, nickel, platinum and palladium as early [...]
We need a new shade of green
Jeff Gibbs
We live in a lite-green time. And it’s not working.Despite corporations, politicians and quite a few citizens being obsessed with going green our national, regional, and personal emissions are going up, up, and away. Every nation that signed Kyoto, including — yes, the supposedly eco-friendly Europeans — are [...]
