November 9, 2009 – 2:42 pm
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!!! [...]
November 6, 2009 – 4:41 pm
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 [...]
November 3, 2009 – 12:58 pm
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 [...]
October 23, 2009 – 1:06 pm
Industrial facilities dumped 575,930 pounds of toxic chemicals into Michigan’s waterways, according to a report released today by Environment Michigan: Wasting Our Waterways: Industrial Toxic Pollution and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Clean Water Act. The report also finds that toxic chemicals were discharged in 1,900 waterways across all 50 states.
“While nearly half of the [...]
October 16, 2009 – 2:26 pm
Marquette County Road Commission Meeting
Monday, October 19, 2009
Ishpeming Township Hall (note location change)
6:30 pm
The MCRC will either vote to accept Kennecott’s Proposed South Road plan or defer the decision until a later meeting. At a public hearing held Sept 28, a group of 20 citizens voiced their concerns about the proposed route and urged the [...]
October 16, 2009 – 2:05 pm
LANSING (AP)
A proposed Michigan ballot measure that would prohibit some types of mining and restrict others took a small step forward Wednesday.
The petition form submitted by a group called the Michigan Save Our Water Committee was approved by a state election board. The group would have to collect more than 300,000 valid signatures of Michigan [...]
October 1, 2009 – 2:47 pm
October 1, 2009
James Clift, 517-256-0553
Lansing – The legislature will return to Lansing today to put the final touches on a bill that will keep Michigan’s wetlands program running at the state level for an additional three years. Proposals had been made to send the program back to the federal government to operate on [...]
September 22, 2009 – 7:25 pm
Video interviews
Jim Lynch / The Detroit News
Republic
Upper Peninsula mines have called the fathers, brothers, sons and, eventually, the mothers and daughters of the region’s families to work for more than a century.
Days spent in the dark and the dirt searching for copper, iron and nickel put food on the table and carved out a rugged [...]
The Canadian Federal Court decision requires Environment Canada to make the mining industry annually report the toxic waste accumulating in tailings ponds and waste rock piles.
John Jackson
Great Lakes United
Great Lakes United and Mining Watch Canada, with the legal assistance of Ecojustice, have won a court case, forcing Environment Canada to require the mining industry to [...]
By SCOTT STREATER, Greenwire
One of the nation’s longest-running environmental eyesores is poised to become a critical jobs engine for the rural West under the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Together, the Interior and Agriculture departments expect to set off a hiring boom among idled industry and agricultural workers whose charge will be to clean [...]
