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Al Gedicks: Chevron should pay for its disaster, too

July 2, 2010 – 1:09 pm

by Al Gedicks
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/opinion/column/guest/article_49fb9946-7fed-11df-b8c6-001cc4c002e0.html
While most Americans are familiar with the Exxon Valdez spill, few have heard of Chevron/Texaco’s far more serious oil disaster in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. Chevron, which bought Texaco in 2001, dumped 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater (known as “produced water”) into the Amazon from 1964 to 1992. According to [...]

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Editorial from Rep. Stupak: Gulf spill holds lessons for protecting Michigan waters, Great Lakes from drilling, sulfide mining

June 27, 2010 – 1:18 pm

June 26, 2010
By U. S. Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Menominee)
WASHINGTON, D. C. — It is difficult to think of northern Michigan without also thinking about the Great Lakes. These waters are vital to our economy and are relied upon by 45 million people for drinking water, fishing, recreation, agriculture, industry and shipping.
That is why, in 2005, [...]

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Civil disobedience, ‘Yooper’ style has lengthy history

June 14, 2010 – 12:19 pm

By John Saari
June 13, 2010

Civil disobedience is commonly associated with historical struggles for basic human rights, a citizen recourse in situations where government has gone badly off course.
After Cynthia Pryor’s arrest near Eagle Rock, it is not surprising that some have linked her name with Rosa Parks, a notable civil rights era personality. Both openly [...]

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TAKE ACTION: To Support Cynthia and Protect Our Public Land

April 23, 2010 – 9:44 pm

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 [...]

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UP mine threatens sacred tribal rights

April 12, 2010 – 2:42 pm

Posted April 11, 2010
Detroit Free Press: Commentary
BY JESSICA L. KOSKI
For far too long, the voices of affected and concerned Ojibwa people have been ignored in the midst of Kennecott’s proposed Eagle Mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
I am a member of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, and we did not invite Kennecott, a subsidiary of multinational [...]

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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 [...]

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Mineral Exploration in Ottawa National Forest

May 6, 2009 – 3:11 pm

Chuck Glossenger’s letter to the editor of the Mining Journal on mineral exploration in the Ottawa Forest.
To the editor:
The Ottawa National Forest in Ironwood is accepting comments during the public input process on whether to grant Kennecott three permits to do exploratory drilling on federal land.
One of their permit requests is the Bates parcel, a [...]

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Download and Read the Full Parker Files About the KEMC Permit

January 28, 2009 – 5:54 pm

Below is a link to the full Jack Parker comments on the KEMC application. Click the link to see the technical details about how catastrophic the potential Eagle Project could be.
PDF of Jack Parker KEMC Permit Application Comments

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The Kennecott Eagle Story, FACT or FICTION? by Jack Parker

November 20, 2008 – 3:30 pm

November 15th 2008
Every few weeks for the past couple of years Kennecott has served up a dose of pablum to the general public, letting us know how much they care and what a good job they are doing as they prepare a prosperous future for the local economy.
It is perhaps a sign of the times [...]

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Citizen Response to Alger-Delta Cutting of 550

May 29, 2008 – 2:52 pm

By Wendy Johnson
A quote from my 7-year-old daughter, when commenting on the cutting along County Road 550 as we were driving to Marquette yesterday: “The road doesn’t even look like our road! It looks like we are downstate or something!”
I am asking for Alger Delta Electric Co-op to HALT the clear cutting on CR 550 [...]

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