The DNR has ONLY made a recommendation and no official action has been taken!
The DNR and Kennecott recently met to discuss the requested information on Kennecott’s Land Use Lease and Mining and Reclamation Plan. According to Tom Wellman of the DNR’s Mineral and Land Management Section, “The DNR has issued a letter to Kennecott…whereby it will recommend an approval of an amended Mining and Reclamation Plan and Surface Use Lease to the Director (Rebecca Humphries) for the February 7, 2008 Natural Resources Commission Meeting.”
The updated agenda for that meeting can be found here. Additional information has been posted on the DNR Kennecott Eagle Project Page.
You can view the Lease request at http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/SurfaceUseLease_186443_7.pdf
Again, this is only a recommendation and no official action has been taken.
We urge anyone who is concerned about this issue to attend the Feb. 7 NRC Meeting at the Diagnostic Center for Population & Animal Health, 4125 Beaumont Road, Lansing
Michelle Halley of the National Wildlife Federation explains, “While DNR staff continues to recommend that Dir. Humpries approve KEMC’s surface use lease request, we urge you to let her know that this policy decision is in her hands. Sacrificing public land as corporate welfare is not acceptable to Michiganders. Please, write or call Director Humphries and urge her to protect our public lands for public use!”
Take Action Now, send an online letter to Dir. Humphies.
OR
Write your own letter and send it to:
Rebecca Humphries- HUMPHRIR@michigan.gov
Lynne Boyd- boydlm@michigan.gov
Mindy Koch- KOCHA@michigan.gov
Teresa Gloden- GLODENT@michigan.gov
Here is an example letter:
“It is my opinion that both Kennecott’s request for the Surface Land Use Lease of 120 acres on the Yellow Dog Plains and the Mining and Reclamation Plan should be denied or thrown out due to their flawed, incomplete, often sloppy and dangerous applications.
The State of Michigan should expect much higher standards from a self-proclaimed industry leader such as Kennecott. This first proposed mine under the new Part 632 statute and rules sets the tone for all the other mining projects that may follow.
The approval of the surface use lease would set a terrible precedent to utilize public lands for private profit. Let us do it right the first time and make sure Michigan doesn’t create an open-door policy for disreputable mining practices in the Great Lakes State.
Thank you for carefully considering public comment and concern about Kennecott’s request to use our public lands for their proposed Eagle Project and their incomplete and flawed Mining and Reclamation Plan.
Sulfide mining is an extremely risky process, and your efforts to require additional information from Kennecott are necessary for making a fully informed decision and protecting our public lands and
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I sent an e-mail to Director Humphries. I hope that my action helps and i will continue to encourage others to act. We must save our lands!
I will continue to send e-mails to Lansing, as well as participate in ongoing blogs which appear in the Mining Journal newspaper in Marquette, as well as WLUC-TV6 blogs related to their “newstories” and editorials as well. I encourage other persons who care about this problem do the same! Public opinion does count, it must be expressed, and it can influence others to get involved to prevent a disaster in Marquette and Baraga Counties by RioTinto/Kennecott. Thanks!
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