CALLING ALL CONCERNED CITIZENS!  

Save the Wild U.P. will offer “lunch & learn” activist trainings to help you prepare for an important public hearing on Aquila Resources’ Back Forty Project (*public hearing TBA, currently anticipated in August – September!).

It is time to defend clean water! Learn about the Menominee River (the U.P.’s largest watershed), specific threats posed by an open-pit sulfide mine on the river, and how to speak out at public hearings. We’ll provide visual overviews of the permits (4) and key concerns – the primary sulfide mining application, and permits regulating Back Forty’s wetland degradation, air pollution caused by mine and mill emissions, and wastewater discharges to the Menominee River. Multiple speakers! Check the facebook page for more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/269182010105958/

Join us on Monday, July 18th, Monday, July 25th and Monday, August 1st from 12:30-3pm, followed by a social hour. Location: the Ore Dock Brewing Company’s public space (upstairs), 114 Spring St., Marquette, MI 49855. Please bring a bag lunch –and your passion for environmental justice!

As the Dalai Lama said, “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”