Mining Seen as Serious Threat To U.P. Resources

By Kurt Steidl, Eagle Herald Staff Writer, ksteidl@eagleherald.com

STEPHENSON– A group based in Lake Township has long expressed its concerns about the effects of exploration for metallic sulfide mineral mine along the Menominee River in the township.

The group, known as Front 40, invited a speaker to its Wednesday meeting to lay out problems that have stricken other areas with mines.

The speaker, Alexis Raney of Save The Wild U.P., kept the audience of close to 40 spellbound for almost an hour with graphic photographs of landscape damaged by acid mine drainage.

“It was founded specifically in an effort to address some of the threats seen by acid mine drainage,” Raney said of her group.

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