February 27, 2008 – 3:04 pm
We’ve had some requests for updates on the Coaster Brook Trout:
The Sierra Club and the Huron Mountain Club filed a petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to begin the investigative process of listing the Coaster Brook Trout as a Threatened and Endangered Species. This petition filed in February 2007 was not addressed by [...]
February 26, 2008 – 3:31 pm
A recent article from MLIVE.com
"West Michigan's abundant natural resources — forests, sand dunes, wetlands and water — provide a variety of benefits that are worth at least $1.6 billion annually, according to a new study.
Putting a dollar figure on nature, also known as green infrastructure, is a tricky business, technically and philosophically. But officials at [...]
February 26, 2008 – 2:27 pm
It is the sound of michigan's water being sold to the highest bidder if Michigan's Senate gets their way!
Click here to take action
"…some Michigan politicians are supporting proposals that would allow up to 25% of some of our inland rivers and streams to be available for export to thirsty states and nations! Maybe [...]
February 8, 2008 – 4:30 pm
"For more than seven months, the nation’s top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states, reportedly because it contains such potentially “alarming information” as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates."
Click here for the full story [...]
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.
October 30, 2007 – 3:04 pm
Canada creates largest Freshwater Marine Protected Area in the World on Lake Superior
Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, announced the creation of the largest protected freshwater area in the world. The Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area spans more than one million hectares of Lake Superior. The marine park includes the Thunder Cape at the tip [...]
October 11, 2007 – 1:08 pm
The Buzzards Have Landed! tells the real story of how a British mining company muscled its way into a small rural community in northern Wisconsin to build a gold, copper and silver mine on the banks of the Flambeau River. Stories of the grassroots resistance movement, protests, arrests, state and local governmental actions, mining company [...]
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 – 12:38 pm
Aquila Completes Airborne Geophysical Survey
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (MARKET WIRE) — 10/04/07 — AQUILA RESOURCES INC. (TSX: AQA)(FRANKFURT: JM4A) ("Aquila" or the "Company") today announced that an airborne electromagnetic and magnetic survey at the Back Forty project in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan has been completed. The survey encompassed a block approximately 35 kilometers by 14 [...]
September 20, 2007 – 1:17 pm
MARQUETTE – Area physicians concerned about the public health implications of a proposed sulfide mine voted overwhelmingly last week to pass a resolution opposing the project.
At a quarterly medical staff meeting, 117 physicians cast their vote in favor of the resolution, which expressed their wish to “urge the Michigan DEQ to deny the permits (air, [...]
