December 3, 2007 – 5:20 pm
Thank you to Steve Garske of Marenisco for this excellent rebuttal to a inaccurate, inflammatory, and possibly slanderous LTE originally printed on 11/20/07.
Click here for the whole letter, Good and bad choices.
November 28, 2007 – 3:44 pm
Nov. 26, 2006 LTE by Chuck Glossenger
or view pdf: 2007 1126 MJ Glossenger LTE
October 15, 2007 – 2:53 pm
Buried treasure
UP stands to make millions off copper and nickel, but new mine could pollute pristine wilderness
October 14, 2007
BY TINA LAM
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
MARQUETTE — Every time the price of copper or nickel jumps, Alexis Raney cringes.
Each new high means the companies prospecting for metals across the wilds of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, […]
October 14, 2007 – 6:56 am
There is still time to make your voice heard: click to make public comment before October 17, 2007!
October 12, 2007 Detroit Free Press Editorial: No room for UP mine errors:
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality must tread carefully as it nears a final permitting decision for a proposed nickel mine near Marquette. Even a […]
October 9, 2007 – 1:21 pm
Examples show sulfide farce
By Al Gedicks
At the recent public hearings on Kennecott’s proposed Eagle Project metallic sulfide mine, company officials cited Kennecott’s Ladysmith (Wis.) mine as a model of responsible mining. This is sheer nonsense.
Neither the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources nor Kennecott disputes that there is water pollution at the mining site. Public records […]
October 4, 2007 – 12:15 pm
Sulfide mining? Mr. Rational Man says, ‘bad idea’
By Todd Sears
This whole donnybrook up in the U.P. regarding proposed sulfide mining on the Yellow Dog Plains has me a bit bewildered. Working in the federal government for over 20 years I have a good feel for how bureaucracies work, or don’t. Granted, my experience has been […]
September 17, 2007 – 9:33 am
To The Editor:
As a former Wisconsin resident, I found it interesting that Kennecott Mining Company points to their success with the Flambeau sulfide mine in Ladysmith, WI to promote their proposed sulfide mine in Marquette County. Your readers should be aware of these facts:
The total mining tax revenue to Ladysmith, the Town of Grant, and Rusk […]
In his op-ed in the Detroit Free Press, State Rep. Tom Casperson (who has represented Michigan's 108th district in the Upper Peninsula since 2002 and is a member of the Tourism, Forestry and Outdoor Recreation Committee) holds up jobs that would potentially created by the proposed Kennecott Eagle Mine and paints the venture […]
Private Mining Interests Try to Put a Price on Michigan's Waterways
by Dick Huey
Amid the ancient forests and rocky outcroppings of the Upper Peninsula's Yellow Dog Plains, the beautiful Salmon Trout River cuts a serpentine path as it alternates between flat water and cascading rapids on its way to the world's premiere fresh water body—Lake […]
From the Traverse City Record-Eagle and Detroit Free Press:
Let's join voices to protect environment
BY WILLIAM G. MILLIKEN
No resource is more important to Michigan's future than the Great Lakes. They literally surround us, leading to our identification as the "Great Lakes State.”
Any action that could threaten the quality of the Great Lakes must be approached […]
