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Editorial: Letter to Editor, Mining Journal

A recent 'Letter to the Editor' explained that sulfide mining proposed for the Yellow Dog Plain cannot be done safely. The letter from 2/9/07 explained: the Wisconsin law prohibits sulfide mining until mining companies can demonstrate successful mining and post-mining without polluting surrounding surface and groundwaters. The aforementioned letter supports our position that this requirement [...]

Editorial: New Nickel Mine in the U.P. Looks Like a Bum Deal

Grow Detroit
by Dave Nelson
Posted January 11, 2007 @ 9:57 pm
Right now, it seems that the only people in favor of opening the Eagle Nickel Mine north of Marquette are Kennecott ' the company that owns the mine ' and the state regulators who gave the project a tentative greenlight on Tuesday:
'This type of mining is [...]

Editorial: What Century is This?

Great Lakes Guy
By Andy Guy
Friday, January 12, 2007
For every company that symbolizes Michigan's creeping transition to the knowledge economy - Google, United Solar Ovonic, Compuware - there seems to be a similiar number of profiteers trying to perpetuate business as usual and pull the state back towards the outmoded development patterns of the 20th century.
Just [...]

Editorial Essay: Sulfide Mining - 1/10/07

Let's look at the pros and cons of the proposal to drill a nickel and copper mine under the Salmon Trout River in northern Marquette County, where many of the residents are either moose or bear.
Kennecott Minerals Company says their mine would create about 120 good-paying jobs, in a region where people are scare and [...]

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