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Great Lakes United wins mining lawsuit

June 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

Great Lakes United and Mining Watch Canada, with the legal assistance of Ecojustice, have won a court case, forcing Environment Canada to require the [...]

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DEQ Holds Hearing on Rio Tinto’s Humboldt Mill Project; Comments Focus on Jobs and Water Quality

February 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 [...]

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Canada’s toxic mine tailings secret goes to court: Information on toxic pollution from mines being hidden from public

January 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 [...]

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