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Category Archives: Legal/Legislative
Gov. Granholm Announces Interim Director for Department of Environmental Quality
December 22, 2009 – 12:49 pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 22, 2009
Contact: Liz Boyd
517-335-6397
LANSING – Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today announced that Jim Sygo will serve as interim director of the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) beginning January 5, 2010, following Director Steven Chester’s announcement today that he will leave his post on January 4. Sygo currently serves as deputy [...]
Mining company surrenders claim to native land in $5-million settlement, opening Ontario’s far north
December 15, 2009 – 1:26 pm
TORONTO — From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail Published on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009
The Ontario government is signaling that the province’s far north is open to business with the settlement of a lawsuit pitting a tiny exploration company against a native band.
The government announced yesterday that it will pay Platinex Inc. $5-million to surrender its [...]
Western Shoshone Prevail at Ninth Circuit Court on Mining Sacred Land
December 15, 2009 – 1:09 pm
Posted by Ahni on December 6, 2009
In a major ruling last week, the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked construction of the largest open pit gold mine in the United States, Barrick Gold’s Cortez Hills gold mine.
Reversing a January 2009 ruling by the U.S. District Court, the Ninth Circuit concluded that enjoining the [...]
Ballot Initiative Needed
December 7, 2009 – 11:18 am
Chuck Glossenger, Big Bay
POSTED: December 5, 2009
To the Mining Journal editor:
In a recent statement, local politicians Sen. Mike Prusi, D-Ishpeming, Sen. Jason Allen, R-Traverse City, Rep. Mike Lahti D-Hancock, Rep. Steve Lindberg, D-Marquette, and Rep. Judy Nerat, D-Wallace, accused sponsors of a proposed 2010 ballot measure on mining of talking about uranium mining in [...]
Lawmakers downplay possibility of U.P. uranium mining
November 17, 2009 – 2:24 pm
But mining company spent more than $700,000 on U.P. uranium exploration in 2009
By Michigan Messenger’s: Eartha Jane Melzer 11/13/09 2:12 PM
http://michiganmessenger.com/30150/lawmakers-downplay-possibility-of-u-p-uranium-mining
Upper Peninsula lawmakers are railing against a ballot measure to create standards for uranium mining, claiming that no uranium ore has been discovered in Michigan. However, a Canadian uranium mining company says it’s [...]
Wetlands program saved, but state budget cuts expected
October 1, 2009 – 2:47 pm
October 1, 2009
James Clift, 517-256-0553
Lansing – The legislature will return to Lansing today to put the final touches on a bill that will keep Michigan’s wetlands program running at the state level for an additional three years. Proposals had been made to send the program back to the federal government to operate on [...]
Eagle Rock Honored, Small Homeland Victories
August 18, 2009 – 5:04 pm
August 18, 2009
Contact: Michelle Halley, NWF – 906-361-0520
NWF and partners pleased with Eagle Rock protection, will appeal remainder of decision
MARQUETTE, MICH – Administrative Law Judge Richard Patterson announced today that he will uphold permits issued to Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality in 2007, with one critical exception that [...]
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 mining industry to [...]