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“Fish-Advisory” result of Cliff’s Selenium Contamination

August 6, 2010 – 12:29 am

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Aug. 5, 2010
Contact: Steve Casey, 906-346-8535 or Debbie Munson Badini, 906-226-1352
DNRE Releases Newsletter Detailing Selenium Reduction Efforts and Monitoring in Upper Peninsula
The Department of Natural Resources and Environment has released a joint newsletter with Cliffs Natural Resources, detailing several efforts to monitor and reduce selenium discharge into waters near the Empire and Tilden [...]

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Artist Reception: Paintings and Photography from the Yellow Dog

August 3, 2010 – 6:44 pm

YELLOW DOG – Wilderness at Risk!
Public Reception – THURSDAY, August 5th from 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Artist Presentation at 6:30
Michigan artist, Kathleen Mooney is featured at the PeterWhite Public Library’s Arts and Culture Center from August 4th – 28th, 2010. Kathleen’s series of paintings and photography was created in response to the impending destruction of wilderness [...]

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Water for Life

August 2, 2010 – 4:47 pm

U.N. assembly asserts water rights, some disagree
July 28, 2010
By Patrick Worsnip
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. General Assembly asserted a global right to water and sanitation in a resolution on Wednesday, but more than 40 countries abstained, saying no such right yet existed in international law.
Some 884 million people lack access to [...]

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DNRE reassurances fail to convince environmentalists, skeptics

July 27, 2010 – 10:09 pm

Will Michigan be able to afford the possible mess?
http://michiganmessenger.com/40044/dnre-reassurances-fail-to-convince-environmentalists-skeptics
By Eartha Jane Melzer 7/26/10 8:13 AM
This first mine to be permitted under Michigan’s non-ferrous metallic mining law — the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company nickel sulfide mine west of Marquette — continues to draw concerns and criticism.
Michigan has dwindling resources for environmental regulation and its environmental [...]

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3rd Annual Protect the Earth Great Lakes Community Gathering

July 22, 2010 – 6:19 pm

Dear Guests, Sponsors & Friends,
Please see the attached flyer announcement for the upcoming 3rd Annual Protect the Earth Great Lakes Community Gathering.  A pdf version, preferred for printing, is also available for download at https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B7kb7ecjb20LYmExMmUyNGYtYzViNC00NTEyLTg0YmItYzEwZjA1Zjc2ZTkw&hl=en.
Flyer and artwork is courtesy of Cory Fountaine, KBOCC Alumni & New Warriors for the Earth Co-Founder.  The background drawing represents [...]

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State has dwindling resources to regulate Kennecott mine

July 15, 2010 – 12:12 am

MICHIGAN MESSENGER:
Mining expert says flawed design will lead to safety problems
By EARTHA JANE MELZER 7/14/10 1:53 PM
In the wake of the EPA’s decision that no federal permit is necessary for a controversial new nickel sulfide mine to be located on state land near Lake Superior, state officials and mining experts are questioning the state’s ability [...]

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Lake Superior Day July 18: Waffle Breakfast In Big Bay

July 9, 2010 – 9:57 am

There are many ‘cool’ ways of celebrating Lake Superior Day – Sunday, July 18th and we’re making it easy for you to decide.
Take a break from “Hiawatha” to have breakfast in Big Bay!
Enjoy a delicious Waffle Breakfast ( eggs, sausage and fruit, too) and served with fresh roasted Dead River Coffee. Serving from 7:30 a.m. [...]

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EPA UIC Determination Announced

July 2, 2010 – 9:27 pm

EPA- KEMC UIC Letter 070110

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Al Gedicks: Chevron should pay for its disaster, too

July 2, 2010 – 1:09 pm

by Al Gedicks
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/opinion/column/guest/article_49fb9946-7fed-11df-b8c6-001cc4c002e0.html
While most Americans are familiar with the Exxon Valdez spill, few have heard of Chevron/Texaco’s far more serious oil disaster in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. Chevron, which bought Texaco in 2001, dumped 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater (known as “produced water”) into the Amazon from 1964 to 1992. According to [...]

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Is Michigan’s BP Disaster Brewing in the UP?

July 2, 2010 – 12:24 pm

By Phil Power | Published: June 27, 2010
From   http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/
Today, TV screens, newspapers and the Internet are  consumed worldwide with the horrendous British Petroleum oil leak into the Gulf of Mexico, now believed to be the greatest man-made environmental disaster in our history, if not that of the planet.
But something eerily similar is going on, [...]

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