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 [...]
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 [...]
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 7, 2009 – 1:40 pm
Fri, 11/06/2009
LANSING, Mich. (AP) Michigan’s chief environmental regulator wants more information about a rocky outcrop in Marquette County that could affect plans for a nickel and copper mine.
Steven Chester, director of the Department of Environmental Quality, on Friday asked Administrative Law Judge Richard Patterson to reconsider his recommendation about the outcrop, known as Eagle Rock.
Patterson [...]
October 23, 2009 – 4:32 pm
(Based on findings from the Red Dog Mine in Alaska)
A study done by the National Park Service in Alaska illustrates the dangers of the Kennecott South Haul Road. The Red Dog Mine in Alaska has a 51 mile haul road, and heavy metal pollution from Fugitive Dust flying off mining trucks has severely polluted 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 [...]
August 18, 2009 – 5:04 pm
August 18, 2009
Contact: Michelle Halley, NWF – 906-361-0520
NWF and partners pleased with Eagle Rock protection, will appeal remainder of decision
MARQUETTE, MICH – Administrative Law Judge Richard Patterson announced today that he will uphold permits issued to Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality in 2007, with one critical exception that [...]
Please contact your local, state, and federal representatives regaurding this new information which has come to light, and ask the the question, “Is the Eagle Project Idiocy or Outright Fraud.
DEQ recently received public comment on Kennecott’s proposed Humbolt Processing Mill.
FOR MINING PERMIT, KENNECOTT EAGLE MINERALS
PROPOSED HUMBOLDT MILL PROJECT
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
April 15, 2009
Proposed Decision
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) is deferring the proposed decision on the application for a Mining Permit submitted by Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company (KEMC) for the [...]
February 26, 2009 – 5:56 pm
Kennecott is proposing to operate a metallic sulfide mine in one of Michigan’s last wild areas, the Yellow Dog Plains, and recently submitted an application to re-open a milling facility in Humboldt Township, Michigan for processing of ore from the mine site. If approved, Kennecott’s proposed milling facility operations could result in environmental degradation [...]