The Mining Action Group is a volunteer, grassroots effort to defend the clean water and wild places of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula from the dangers of sulfide mining – previously known as Save the Wild U.P.
The Lake Superior Binational Forum is hosting a free public input meeting to talk about the status and progress of the Torch Lake Area of Concern in Houghton, on Friday, Saturday 5, from 1 to 5 p.m., at the Franklin Square Inn on Shelden Ave. in Houghton. Additional speakers will share information about how to maintain chemically free landscaping and lawns.
The public is welcome to come and listen to speakers and to give personal comments about the Area of Concern or any issue in the Keweenaw Peninsula affecting the Lake Superior Basin. Refreshments will be served.
The suspicious delay in the release of a CDC Great Lakes health report had made international news:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7346728
We are doing a reaserch about htis at school and the way the sulfide is hurting has got to stop. It would make us feel alot better
The link below is to a recent article on sulfide mining on Minnesota’s iron range:
http://articles.citypages.com/2008-05-07/feature/buried-treasure/full/
The Lake Superior Binational Forum is hosting a free public input meeting to talk about the status and progress of the Torch Lake Area of Concern in Houghton, on Friday, Saturday 5, from 1 to 5 p.m., at the Franklin Square Inn on Shelden Ave. in Houghton. Additional speakers will share information about how to maintain chemically free landscaping and lawns.
The public is welcome to come and listen to speakers and to give personal comments about the Area of Concern or any issue in the Keweenaw Peninsula affecting the Lake Superior Basin. Refreshments will be served.
For information call 715-682-1489.