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.
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.
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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”?
SUPERIOR AFFECTS ALL LAKES —-BEWARE WHAT YOU DUMP INTO IT—–CYBERJON
Kennecott has already shown its lack of enviromental controls and its incompetencies via their operations in Wisconsin. Why should the residents of Michigan and the rest of the surrounding Great Lakes states suffer the same fate. We don’t need the jobs so bad that we sell out the UP’s future for my children and for future generations perceived benefit. Save the UP! Hey MI DNR, send Kennecott packing…..
I live in the western up of michigan. I came here to retire 8 years ago. This area depends on tourism. During the ski season and the summer recreational season there are so many people that come from everywhere….from the western US to eastern Canada, you see the license plates. …and many that have vacation homes and hunting cabins here. If all those folks are chased away by the mining, our towns will die. Also Kennecott has a bad reputation and clean water is more important to sustain life than any ore mined.
The environmental assessment impact will have more damage to Michigan if Kennecott is granted this permit. The State of Michigan will only get a very small amount from the billions of dollars that Kennecott will gain. It is hardly enough to save Michigans economy, let alone the irrevocable damage to the ground water systems, wildlife, and land. DO NOT MINE.
PLEASE JOIN IN THIS GLOBAL PRAYER … IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE!
We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
Ask you to join us:
MAY 18, 2010
CONSCIOUS PARTICIPATION IN HEALING OUR PLANETARY WATERS
OUR MOTHER EARTH NEEDS YOUR HELP!
Along with many peoples all around the globe, and many water prayers this spring, we are calling for a MASSIVE GLOBAL EFFORT.
Our main intention for this healing is to return the waters to their original pure crystalline blueprint, and to add to their abundance for the nourishment of ALL living things on the planet.
Pray in your local waterways, at the rivers or lakes or streams. Or pray with a bowl of water in the middle of the cities.
“We are Water Babies.
Do not to forget to say thank you every day for the water you drink,
the water you bathe in.
Without our Mother water we would not survive.”
Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrim, Takelma Siletz, Oregon
The specific ceremonies being conducted on May 18, 2010:
Grandmothers will be holding Water Prayers in the following places:
African Rainforest, Gabon – Grandmother Bernadette Rebienot
Great Lakes, USA- Grandmother Rita Blumenstein
Mountains of Oaxaca, Huautla de Jimenez – Grandmother Julieta Casimiro
Desert of the American Southwest- Grandmother Mona Polacca
France – Grandmother Flordemayo
Black Hills of North America- Beatrice and Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance
Plains of North America, Montana-Grandmother Margaret Behan
Hood River, Oregon- Agnes Baker Pilgrim
Nepalese Himalayas- Aama Bombo
Brazilian Amazon-Grandmothers Maria Alice Freire and Clara Shinobu Iura
Tibetan Ceremonies in Canada- Tsering Dolma Gyaltong
Mahia, Aotearoa, New Zealand – Ambassador Pauline Tangiora
At the same time, people will be praying at
Nine specific bodies of water around the planet using crystalline energy
· Lake Tahoe, California
· Lake Titicaca, Peru
· Lake MacKay Australia
· Lake Chad, Africa
· Lake Bikkal, Russia
· Lake Kissyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan
· Lake Geneva, Switzerland
· Lake Superior, Minnesota
· Colorado River Complex (Healing and Purification Ceremonies for this vital USA waterway)
“Water reflects the human soul. If you say, ‘thank you’ to water, it will be reflected in the form of beautiful crystals overflowing with gratitude in return.” Masuru Emoto, The Secret Life of Water
For more information:
http://www.goldeneagleceremonies.com
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Absolute no to sulfide mining on the Yellow Dog Plains, or anywhere else in the U.P.
We do not want your corporate money dirtying our environment and disgracing an entire culture.
I have to agree with everybody above – the amount MI will see compared to the company profits simply aren’t worth it! Keep our water clean, our state healthy, and in the long run, that will help job creation by continuing to have a viable tourism economy.
I have been living in the Tahoe Area for over 30 years. We have allot of environmental problems as well. On a recent trip to Michigan I heard people talking about keeping the UP clean. I hope that you all ban together.
Great I would love to see more job opportunities for the U.P. Where do your children work? How many families are broken up this holiday and can not move home for there are no jobs for us our children and grandchildren to live in the U.P. help support employment and let us come home.
Towanda, it’s a shame you see nature as the only way out of financial distress. I pray that you can see the temporary yet destructive ways of mining. Suffering brings change if you allow it.
what do the people in Lansing know? Do there children and grandchildren run around there homes and join in holiday festivities together in the U.P.,or do they fly somewhere or see their families. I could not get all my family to a funeral back home because we are not in our beloved home area.