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Category Archives: Economic
Rio Tinto Locks Out 500 Union Workers
February 4, 2010 – 1:40 pm
The LA TIMES reports that over 540 miners have been locked out of a Rio Rinto Mine in southern California. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-boron1-2010feb01,0,362036.story
Rio Tinto locks out over 540 Union Workers at the Borax Mine in California. Read More…
UPDATE Company Can’t Keep Story Straight After Lockout: tells union workers that they must sacrifice to keep company afloat, while company [...]
Alger-Delta Threatens Granot Loma Farms Over Utility Easements
January 26, 2010 – 4:50 pm
For Immediate Release
January 26, 2010
Alger Delta Threatens Granot Loma Over Utility Easements
In an effort to complete Kennecott’s unpermitted power line to Big Bay and the Yellow Dog Plains, Alger-Delta Electric Co-op has filed a lawsuit against Granot Loma Farms for 15 easements along their 4-mile portion of the project. Co-op manager Tom Harrell refers [...]
DEQ Grants Final Kennecott Permit – Ignores Native Rights
January 14, 2010 – 9:17 pm
The DEQ has granted Kennecott the final permit for the Eagle Mine project on the Yellow Dog Plains, ignoring Judge Richard Patterson ruling that Eagle Rock be honored as a Native American sacred site.
Read The DEQ’s press release
Eartha Jane Melzer writes: http://michiganmessenger.com/33340/controversial-kennecott-mine-permits-okd-at-11th-hour
For further information, read article by Gabriel Caplett
Comments from Cynthia Pryor, YDWP [...]
Minnesota PolyMet Project:Public Opinion
December 22, 2009 – 12:17 pm
Published December 20, 2009
Dissenting view: Creating our own Appalachia means giving up too much
By: Marc Fink, For the News Tribune
Over the years we’ve seen, in the Appalachia region of West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, what happens when a single industry becomes a sacred cow, supported by politicians across the spectrum for their own self interest [...]
Mining company surrenders claim to native land in $5-million settlement, opening Ontario’s far north
December 15, 2009 – 1:26 pm
TORONTO — From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail Published on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009
The Ontario government is signaling that the province’s far north is open to business with the settlement of a lawsuit pitting a tiny exploration company against a native band.
The government announced yesterday that it will pay Platinex Inc. $5-million to surrender its exploration [...]
Doctors resign en masse over uranium exploration
December 7, 2009 – 11:17 am
The Montreal Gazette
December 4, 2009 1:58 PM
MONTREAL – Twenty doctors have handed in their resignations at the Centre hospitalier régional de Sept-Îles.
In an open letter addressed to Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc, the physicians say they have quit, as a group, to protest plans to build an uranium mine on the North Shore.
The protest comes [...]
EPA: Uranium From Polluted British Petroleum Mine Found In Nevada Water Wells
November 24, 2009 – 1:16 pm
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 [...]
Rio Tinto drops Prospecting Permit in Ottawa National Forest
November 24, 2009 – 12:43 pm
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 [...]
Lawmakers downplay possibility of U.P. uranium mining
November 17, 2009 – 2:24 pm
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 [...]