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SCOTT SONNER | 11/21/09 06:31 PM Huffington Post
YERINGTON, Nev. — Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time.
But she can look through the window from her kitchen table, just past her backyard with its [...]
IRON RIVER, MI
On November 6, Rio Tinto notified the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Ottawa National Forest (ONF) that it no longer wishes to pursue mineral exploration in a 395 acre parcel of the Ottawa National Forest in Iron County known as the “Bates Parcel.”
Read: rio_tinto_letter_terminating_prospecting_permit_on_bates_parcel1
This is good news to concerned residents and [...]
But mining company spent more than $700,000 on U.P. uranium exploration in 2009
By Michigan Messenger’s: Eartha Jane Melzer 11/13/09 2:12 PM
http://michiganmessenger.com/30150/lawmakers-downplay-possibility-of-u-p-uranium-mining
Upper Peninsula lawmakers are railing against a ballot measure to create standards for uranium mining, claiming that no uranium ore has been discovered in Michigan. However, a Canadian uranium mining company says it’s [...]
For Immediate Release
November 12, 2009
Contact: Kristi A. Mills
It’s a shame when publicly elected officials become the mouthpiece for pro-mining propaganda. Not only did Mike Prusi, Michael Lahti, Steven Lindberg, Judy Nerat, and Jason Allen blatantly misrepresent attempts to protect the economy and environment of Upper Michigan, they failed to recognize the largest part of Upper [...]
Save the Wild UP will host its Annual Fall Fundraiser Social on Thursday, November 12 at the Upfront & Company, downtown Marquette, from 6:30 – 11:00 pm. The evening will include a silent auction, appetizers, cash bar, guest speaker, Duncan Campbell, and live music by the Amnesians, a local classic rock band.
8:00 Rally for Water!!! [...]
Author Eric Hansen will present a slide tour of the U.P.’s best hikes, waterfalls and scenic vistas in Ann Arbor November 17.
His theme is: The Poetry and Practicalities of Hiking Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
Hansen, an award-winning conservation essayist, is the author of Hiking Michigan’s Upper Peninsula – A Guide to the Greatest Hiking [...]
Fri, 11/06/2009
LANSING, Mich. (AP) Michigan’s chief environmental regulator wants more information about a rocky outcrop in Marquette County that could affect plans for a nickel and copper mine.
Steven Chester, director of the Department of Environmental Quality, on Friday asked Administrative Law Judge Richard Patterson to reconsider his recommendation about the outcrop, known as Eagle Rock.
Patterson [...]
Please join us for a special film premiere!
Precious Waters:
Minnesota’s sulfide mining controversy
7 – 9 p.m. – Wednesday, November 11
FREE and open to the public!
John B. Davis Lecture Hall, Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center
Macalester College, 1600 Grand Ave, St. Paul
“Precious Waters” is a new short film produced by the Friends of the [...]
By JON SAARI
POSTED: October 29, 2009
The recent Mining Journal editorial (October 21) on the proposed statewide ballot initiative for November 2010 was generally factual and fair-minded. It argued the importance of clean water as well as jobs, of tourism and recreation as well as mining; and it urged U.P. residents to study the issues and [...]
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