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 [...]
February 20, 2009 – 5:04 pm
by Gabriel Caplett
Humboldt, Michigan – While a blizzard raged in the eastern part of the county, about 100 citizens attended a Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) hearing on a mining application for Kennecott-Rio Tinto’s proposed Humboldt Mill project. Comments were starkly divided between those citing perceived job creation as motivation for their support [...]
February 12, 2009 – 6:41 pm
Rio Tinto released today a 38-page press release which discusses the company’s 2008 fiscal performance. Buried in one paragraph on page 10 of the release, the company states that the “development of the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company nickel and copper mine on the Yellow Dog Plains has been “deferred until market conditions recover.”
See [...]
January 14, 2009 – 2:29 pm
Save the Wild UP will host a showing of the compelling documentary, “Mining Madness, Water Wars: The Great Lakes in the Balance” on Thursday evening, January 22 at Peter White Public Library.
Produced by the National Wildlife Federation, this 33 minute production lays bare the controversial proposal to blast a mine beneath a blue ribbon trout [...]
January 5, 2009 – 9:09 pm
When: Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009, 10:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m Central Time, 11:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Where: Patrick J. White Conference Room, West Iron District Library; 116 West Genessee; Iron River, MI 49915 (One block South of U.S.2, midtown); (906)265-2831
Contact person: Robert Rivera (906)265-3176
Concerned citizens of Iron County, with assistance from the Northwood Alliance, will hold [...]
December 30, 2008 – 12:51 pm
“The Splash,” is now available. Check inside the Marquette Monthly during the month of January or click here to view the online version.
