These Public Hearings and comment period are your opportunity to voice your concerns for Kennecott's proposed mine on the Yellow Dog Plains.
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The Last Public Hearing will be held on:
September 19, 1 – 4:30 pm and 6 – 9:30 pm
Lansing Center, Rooms 203 and 204, 333 E. Michigan Ave.,
Lansing, Michigan
Written comments are accepted any time, now through October 17, 2007. You can send them either postal mail or e-mail to the following addresses:DEQ/DNR Kennecott CommentsOffice of Geological Survey
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According to a e-mail from Steve Wilson at the DEQ, the updated public hearing notice is posted on the internet. Mr. Wilson has also posted the updated Part 632 permit conditions.
7 Comments
Please stop the Mining please keep the UP clean and safe for the future
Please save the UP! It is one of the most beautiful parts of Michigan that I have visited and everyone is very nice up there. It would be a mistake that would cost our children their right to inherit a clean and productive state. Save the Salmon Trout River and tell Kennecott to keep their interests out of Michigan and for that matter, ALL the Great Lakes states!
Thanks,
John Sicamora
To Whom It May Concern:
We would like to express our opposition to a mine on the Yellow Dog Plains. This area is too ecologically fragile to place an industrial operation and a mine with a known risk to pollute. Additionally, whatever pollution occurs will eventually end up in Lake Superior. We cannot risk the contamination of such a large body of fresh water. Thank you for your consideration.
KEEP SULFIDE MINING OUT OF THE U.P.!!!
The mine sounds like a potential environmental disaster. I noticed from reading about the proposal that environmental ramifications do not seem well-researched. As a toxicologist, I can tell you that it is important to have a plan for minimizing environmental impact as well as remediation of the site. This plan does not seem to have either worked out!
We will all recieve major benefits for appriciating wildlife and speaking for it, when it can't (verbally) speak for itself. The good in all will eventually have to be seen by you and (or) others so do what you know will benefit the future for all of us.
PLEASE STOP THE DESTRUCTION OF GOOD
NO TO THIS DISTRUCTION! SAVE THE U.P.! WE ONLY HAVE SO MUCH UNTOUCHED BEAUTY LEFT! BOO TO DEQ FOR NOT REJECTING THIS APPLICATION IMMEDIATELY! BOO TO GRANHOLM FOR NOT DOING SOMETHING MORE TO STOP THIS DEVASTATION! WHAT HAPPENED TO "PROTECTION OF THE GREAT LAKES & ENVIRONMENT"?
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