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Halloween Costume Contest with Raffle to benefit SWUP

October 30, 2008 – 3:25 pm

When: Friday October 31st, 7:00 - midnight
Where: UpFront and Co.
Judging begins at 9:00pm. $3 entry fee (ages 18 and older)
Costume Categories:
Best movie Costume - Grand prize
Best Overall Costume - Cash Prize
Best Couple
Funniest
Scariest
Bring some extra cash for a snap shot of you and your friends taken by CK Unlimited. Presented by Third Street Video and [...]

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New SWUP Publication “The Splash” is Now Available

October 30, 2008 – 2:13 pm

Save the Wild UP would like to announce that our new publication, “The Splash,” is now available. Check inside the Marquette Monthly during the month of November or view the PDF version here.

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Send a Video Message About Sulfide and Uranium Mining

October 23, 2008 – 3:32 pm

Click here to send a video message about sulfide and uranium mininig in the Great Lakes.

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Press Coverage of EPA Open House

October 23, 2008 – 3:05 pm

WLUC TV6 - Kennecott needs permit before construction can begin
Mining Journal - EPA role limited in mine project

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Sudbury Health Risks Report Review Commissioned by Steelworkers

October 23, 2008 – 2:50 pm

A report prepared by nationally known pollution watchdog, Environmental Defence Canada, says that the Sudbury Soil Study Human Health Risk Assessment Report (HHRA) “cannot demonstrate that there is no harm occurring, it can only estimate level of risk. The assessors have inappropriately decided what that acceptable level of risk should be. This is a [...]

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DNR Open House and Compartment Review for Salmon Trout River

October 22, 2008 – 12:26 pm

This compartment review includes cutting the state lands around the Salmon Trout River. Anyone looking at an ariel of the YD Plains will see that there is only a little bit of older growth forest left - right along the river! We need to impress upon them that wildlife corridors are absolutely [...]

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Yellow Dog Benefit Concert

October 17, 2008 – 3:56 pm

Join the Yellow Dog on Saturday October, 18th, 5:00 pm at the Peter White Public Library, community room.
Music starts at 5:30.
A donation of $7.00 per person $15.00 per family at the door is requested.

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CONTESTED CASE BRIEF AND CLOSING ARGUMENT

October 17, 2008 – 12:58 pm

Please click the following link to read the closing argument on the Contested Case regarding the proposed Eagle Project.
NWF Closing Argument

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Flambeau Debate: No Response from Jon Cherry

October 16, 2008 – 3:25 pm

An August 16, 2008 letter to the editor, in Marquette’s daily newspaper, proposed a debate between Jon Cherry (Eagle Project Manager) and Laura Furtman (co-author, along with Roscoe Churchill, of the Buzzards Have Landed! The Real Story of the Flambeau Mine). In an August letter to the editor, Laura Furtman responded to the proposal [...]

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Salt Lake City Mayor Tells Kennecott to Leave Public Space Alone

October 13, 2008 – 3:04 pm

No trespassing, Kennecott: Mayor tells company to stay out of public’s open space
By Jeremiah Stettler
The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune
Article Launched:10/12/2008 12:53:08 AM MDT
Kennecott’s plans to probe for minerals beneath hundreds of acres of Salt Lake County-owned open space have hit rock-hard resistance from a potent political foe: Peter Corroon.
The Democratic mayor has denied the [...]

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