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Category Archives: Bulletin BoardGreat Lakes United wins mining lawsuitJune 22, 2009 – 11:12 am
The Canadian Federal Court decision requires Environment Canada to make the mining industry annually report the toxic waste accumulating in tailings ponds and waste rock piles. John Jackson Great Lakes United and Mining Watch Canada, with the legal assistance of Ecojustice, have won a court case, forcing Environment Canada to require the [...] Fun-raise with SWUP at our Walk/Paddle/Roll EventsJune 18, 2009 – 2:06 pm
What: Great Lakes ‘Walk, Paddle, and Roll’ Fundraising Event Save the Wild UP Kristi Mills 228-4444 Website: www.savethewildup.org Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve Emily Whittaker, 345-9223 Website: [...] Kirtlands Warbler Survey ScheduledMay 29, 2009 – 12:48 pm
The annual Kirtland’s Warbler singing male survey of the US Fish & Wildlife Service will be conducted June 6th through June 15th for the entire Upper Peninsula. 2009 Indigenous Earth Issues SummitMarch 31, 2009 – 5:20 pm
The Center for Native American Studies is proud to present the second annual NMU Indigenous Earth Issues Summit being held on Monday, April 6, 2009, at the Great Lakes Rooms in the Don H. Bottum University Center at Northern Michigan University. This event is FREE and open to the public! Your Water, Your Health March 19th, 6pm-8pmMarch 5, 2009 – 3:28 pm
The Great Lakes Health & Environment Action League (HEAL) invites you to share soup at a forum “Your Water, Your Health,” on Thursday, March 19th, at 7 pm in the Marquette Federation of Women’s Clubs, 104 W Ridge Street (at the corner of Front St.). For more information, please email:GreatLakesHEAL@gmail.com or visit: greatlakesheal.wordpress.com The event [...] DEQ Holds Hearing on Rio Tinto’s Humboldt Mill Project; Comments Focus on Jobs and Water QualityFebruary 20, 2009 – 5:04 pm
by Gabriel Caplett Humboldt, Michigan - While a blizzard raged in the eastern part of the county, about 100 citizens attended a Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) hearing on a mining application for Kennecott-Rio Tinto’s proposed Humboldt Mill project. Comments were starkly divided between those citing perceived job creation as motivation for their support [...] Eagle Project on HoldFebruary 12, 2009 – 6:41 pm
Rio Tinto released today a 38-page press release which discusses the company’s 2008 fiscal performance. Buried in one paragraph on page 10 of the release, the company states that the “development of the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company nickel and copper mine on the Yellow Dog Plains has been “deferred until market conditions recover.” See [...] Canada’s toxic mine tailings secret goes to court: Information on toxic pollution from mines being hidden from publicJanuary 22, 2009 – 2:41 pm
TORONTO - Canada’s Federal Court heard a lawsuit case on Monday against the Minister of the Environment for failing to ensure that Canada’s mining industry publicly reports the hundreds of millions of kilograms of toxic pollution it generates each year. The lawsuit was filed in Federal Court in late 2007 by Ecojustice (formerly Sierra Legal [...] Resources CategoryFebruary 12, 2008 – 4:24 pm
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