By Jon Magnuson , The Mining Journal, 9-18-11
This past week The Mining Journal reported as a lead story Inghan County Judge Paula J. M Manderfield’s denial of a request for an injunction to stop Rio Tinto’s Kennecott Minerals Company from dynamiting Eagle Rock, the entrance to the proposed controversial sulfide mine in Powell Township.
Save the Wild UP will host its Annual Fall Fundraiser Social on Friday, September 23rd at the Upfront & Company, downtown Marquette, from 6:30 – 11:00 pm. Highlighting the evening will be speakers, a silent auction, food, cash bar and ‘live and local’ music. Don’t miss this opportunity to tackle early holiday shopping, catch up with old friends and enjoy good food and music. Tickets are on sale at the SWUP office for $15 per person, $5 student rate. Please call (906) 662-9987 for more information.
September 14, 2011
LANSING – An Ingham County circuit court judge refused to grant a stay today, which would have blocked the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Co. from excavating the portal to its nickel and copper mine on the Yellow Dog Plains until an appeal is decided.
Huron Mountain Club – Keweenaw Bay Indian Community –
National Wildlife Federation – Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve
For Immediate Release: September 1, 2011
Contact: Michelle Halley, National Wildlife Federation, (906) 361-0520
Groups Ask Judge to Halt Mine Blasting
MARQUETTE, MICH. (September 1, 2011) – A coalition of groups yesterday asked a judge to halt imminent mining activity that would desecrate a sacred Native American site and jeopardize water quality for the Great Lakes and one of the region’s last spawning grounds for the coaster brook trout.
By C.A. Arneson | Monday, Aug. 29, 2011
It was bad enough when the U.S. Supreme Court bestowed corporations with personhood – but under the guise of the title Chamber of Commerce, Minnesota now has its own corporative dictator. And Minnesota’s dictator wants sulfide mining at all costs – including the permanent degradation of Minnesota waters.
Marquette County Board of Road Commissioners (year took office), top to bottom - L to R: Joseph Valente ('08), Russell Williams, Vice Chairperson ('07), Neil Anderson ('09), Darryll Sundberg, Chairperson ('03), David Hall ('07)
The Marquette County Road Commission will hold a series of informational open houses to provide information to, and collect written comments from the public regarding the proposed new roadway called County Road 595. Time and location are as follows:
Tuesday, Aug. 30th 12:00 -3:00 & 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Citizens Forum Room, Lakeview Arena,
Wednesday, Aug. 31st 12:00 -3:00 & 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Ishpeming Township Hall, Ishpeming
Informational packets will be available for public review at these meetings. Information will also be available to the public for review starting Tuesday afternoon, August 16, 2011 at the following locations: Marquette County Road Commission Administrative Office, The Peter White Public Library, City of Ishpeming, City of Negaunee, City of Marquette, Powell Township, Ely Township, Marquette Township, Negaunee Township, Ishpeming Township, Humboldt Township and Michigamme Township.
All written input given and received at these informational meetings will be considered at the Board of Marquette County Road Commissioners regular meeting on Monday, September 19, 2011, 6:00 p.m. at the Ishpeming Township Hall. The public may submit written comment to the Marquette County Road Commission Office, 1610 N. Second Street, Ishpeming, MI 49849 or by emailing lbrogan@marqroad.org by Tuesday, September 6, 2011; 1:00 p.m.
Lisa Brogan
Marquette County Road Commission
Ph: 906-486-4491 x. 103
F: 906-486-4493
Photo courtesy of Houghton Gazette
Rick Snyder addresses over 150 folks in Houghton this week. Keweenaw Now was there and has a full report:http://keweenawnow.blogspot.com/2011/08/gov-rick-snyder-speaks-to-invited.html
Also Mining Journal writer Kyle Whitney interviewed Snyder on Monday in Marquette: …http://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/565945/State-s-chief-executive-addresses-key-issues-in-first-visit-to-Upper-Peninsula-since-taking-office.html?nav=5006
TOUR Kennecott/Rio Tinto’s catastrophic Eagle Site – 120 acres of scoured landscape suitable for alien visitors. See Eagle Rock, a significant Native sacred site, now surrounded by a 12′ chain link fence and barbed wire, heavily secured and inaccessible to anyone seeking worship and prayer. Note the various contractors from Wisconsin and Minnesota, here for the short term gain while living in a motel in Marquette. Ask about the ‘high-tech’ waste water treatment plant that has never been tested under these local conditions, potentially pumping over 50,000 gallons of waste water back into the high plains hydrocycle – uncharted territory.Governor Snyder refused an earlier appeal WAVE made to halt development of the mine. Rio Tinto/Kennecott has never had a non-polluting sulfide mine, their new technology is untested. Our water, our health and our children’s health—for generations to come—is at risk. And they have failed to adequately study the impacts!
Call Snyder’s office tomorrow and/or Friday and request that Kennecott/Rio Tinto halt work on the Eagle Project until a comprehensive Environmental Impact Statement be conducted.
Call-in dates: August 11 and 12.
Write-in dates: August 7 – 21, 2011
Contact Information
Governor Rick Snyder, P.O. Box 30013, Lansing MI 48909
Tel. (517) 373-3400; FAX (517) 335-7858; Email:rick.snyder@mich.gov
By: Bob Tammen, Duluth Budgeteer News
We care about our watershed. The Lake Superior Watershed Festival brought out hundreds of visitors to Lake Superior College Saturday to learn about threats to Lake Superior. One of the biggest future threats will be copper mining in the Duluth Complex of minerals. Mining promoters have an impressive array of talking points. Unfortunately, they don’t have a scientifically acceptable mining plan.
Polymet’s draft environmental impact statement got the lowest possible rating from the EPA, which issued a letter detailing the Continue reading