Final – Jack Parkers Report of the Kennecott Application (1) (2)

Good evening folks:  After four years of working on it I have put together a summary of what I think of the Kennecott application for a mining permit – and their mining plan.

Rather than bogging down in details I have concentrated on what I believe to be the one most critical problem – that the mine is predicted to be UNSTABLE –  because of incompetent and deceptive design practices and faulty evaluations by the regulating agencies.  The evidence, from the opponents of the scheme and the DEQ experts too (Sainsbury and Blake), supports, without doubt, that the mine, as planned, will be unstable, yet both Kennecott and the MDEQ studiously ignore that evidence and continue to agree that “It is a good plan and we are going to stick with it.”

There are dozens of other serious errors and omissions in the application.  It is fair to label the application “incredibly incompetent”.

Jack Parker