Letter to the Mining Journal, 2-10-2012
To the Journal editor:
Marquette County Road 595 is being built because of the mine at Eagle Rock. If there were no mine, there would be no road. It is a road for the mine, a haul road.
Kennecott needs to step up to the plate and do what is right, and it is the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality’s job to make them follow the law. Continue reading
“Hello!
Roscoe and Evelyn Churchill were right. They said from the very beginning that the Flambeau Mine would pollute the water over there, and it has.Now we have a chance to do something about it, and WRPC is asking for your help. Please see the attached letter for details and submit your written comments to the Wisconsin DNR by February 20, 2012.
Taking inspiration from the Occupy Movement, last week a group of doctors and environmental groups in Salt Lake City, Utah announced a law suit against the third largest mining corporation in the world, Rio Tinto, for violating the Clean Air Act in Utah. This is likely the first time ever that physicians have sued industry for harming public health.
Air pollution causes between 1,000 and 2,000 premature deaths every year in Utah. Moreover, medical research in the last ten years has firmly established that air pollution causes the same broad array of diseases well known to result from first and second hand cigarette smoke–strokes, heart attacks, high blood pressure, virtually every kind of lung disease, neurologic diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, loss of intelligence, chromosomal damage, higher rates of diabetes, obesity, adverse birth outcomes and various cancers such as lung cancer, breast cancer and leukemia. Continue reading
By Judy Fahys
The Salt Lake Tribune http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/mobile/53145614-90/kennecott-pollution-utah-groups.html.csp
First published Dec 19 2011 09:32AM
Environmental groups made good Monday on a promise to sue Kennecott Utah Copper over air pollution.
Utah Moms for Clean Air, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, the Sierra Club of Utah and WildEarth Guardians are demanding that the mining giant scale back its operations to pre-2007 levels and pay penalties of about $68 million for violating the Clean Air Act for nearly five years.
Kennecott Eagle Minerals Announces Aerial Survey Program
ISHPEMING, Mich., November 9, 2011 — Today, Kennecott Eagle Minerals announced a series of geophysical surveys to commence over Western and Central Upper Michigan.
The survey program is expected to start late November and continue for approximately three months. These surveys are part of the continuing exploration commitment by Kennecott in the Upper Peninsula.
The surveys will be completed using helicopters with geophysical equipment tethered behind the aircraft. The altitude of the helicopters will be low-level and will comply with Federal Transit Administration guidelines.
Residents will notice the helicopters flying over several U.P. counties. There are no materials being released into the environment.
Kennecott welcomes your questions and comments at kennecotteagleminerals.com/contact or by calling our Community Hotline at (906) 486-6970.
Media Contact:
Daniel Blondeau, Advisor – Communications and Media Relations
906. 468.1257 x 259 (O); 906.204.9985 (M); daniel.blondeau@riotinto.com
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.