August 26, 2010 – 10:38 pm
Rio Tinto/Kennecott, in a letter dated August 4, 2010 provided sketchy information describing their recent modifications to their Eagle Project site plan. These modifications include moving and expanding several buildings including one that houses heavy explosives, moving and enlarging the TDRSA – the temporary development rock storage area (where all liners leak!)
Kennecott claims that “none [...]
August 19, 2010 – 6:32 pm
Read Mike Lahti’s response to citizen letter:
http://keweenawnow.blogspot.com/2010/08/lahti-to-request-response-from-dnre-on.html
August 18, 2010 – 3:42 pm
Greetings All,
Below is an e-mail that was sent to several legislators. The hope was that, because there was a scheduled debate for an oil drilling ban in the Great Lakes by Michigan legislators, a debate to protect the water, the legislators would gladly add the proposed amendment to suspend sulfide and uranium mining at the [...]
August 13, 2010 – 10:40 am
Enbridge CEO: “We are fully committed to returning this river back to the way it was before, if not better,” says Daniel.
By Todd A. Heywood 8/12/10 11:17 AM of // Michigan Messenger
MARSHALL — In a 30-minute interview with the Michigan Messenger, Enbridge CEO Patrick Daniel pledged to return Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Marquette County Road Funding Forum
Are you concerned about:
a potential ‘Woodland Road’ through serene northern Marquette County
safety issues along US 41 West
the lack of a safe N/S truck route through Marquette
Wednesday, June 30th at 3:00 pm at the Negaunee Township Hall located at 42 M-35, Negaunee, MI 49866.
Representatives of local units of government will be on [...]
