Category Archives: Legal

Kennecott/MDEQ bypass Michigan’s Sulfide Mining Law: Legal Brief from Appellants

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Follow our link to the brief filed in July in Washtenow County Circuit Court. This brief is clear and for the most part, quite understandable, with overwhelming evidence that we are not protected at all by Michigan’s sulfide mining laws, because the MDEQ has chosen to permit Kennecott to ignore and violate the principle provisions [...]

Concerned Citizens Take Action: Contact your Legislators

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 [...]

DNRE reassurances fail to convince environmentalists, skeptics

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 [...]

EPA UIC Determination Announced

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Is Michigan’s BP Disaster Brewing in the UP?

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, [...]

TAKE ACTION: To Support Cynthia and Protect Our Public Land

Sign a Petition To Support Cynthia and Our Public Lands
Please act now and sign a petition to the EPA, DNRE and many others to support Cynthia’s actions and help to protect our right to recreate on public lands

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Donate to our legal fund to support Cynthia in court and to support anyone else [...]

TAKE ACTION: Help Stop New Kennecott Exploration

Woodland Road Hearing: Permit Analysis

To help prepare yourself to attend the MDEQ’s public hearing for Kennecott’s proposed 22-mile haul ‘highway’ on Wednesday, February 10 at the Westwood High School, 7:00 pm, Please Read the Permit Analysis written by Cynthia Pryor.

Rio Tinto Locks Out 500 Union Workers

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 [...]

National Wildlife Federation to Challenge Michigan’s Approval of Dangerous Mine

MARQUETTE, MICH. (January 15)—The National Wildlife Federation today vowed to challenge a Thursday decision by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to allow a controversial mine to proceed–even though the decision by the agency contradicts opinions by internal experts who have warned that the mine is unsafe and could result in a mine collapse.
“The mining [...]



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