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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
