I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Rio Tinto, the company that owns the Kennecott nickel mine near Marquette in the Upper Peninsula, will have to face civil charges of genocide and war crimes in Papua New Guinea.
Opponents of a nickel and copper mine that is slated to begin blasting this month have asked a judge to issue an injunction on drilling while she considers an appeal of permits granted for the project.
The first mine to be permitted under Michigan’s non-ferrous metallic mining law — the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company nickel sulfide mine west of Marquette — continues to draw concerns and criticism.
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) is again warning that the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Co. has not taken necessary steps to assure that its planned U.P. nickel sulfide mine will operate safely. In a July 15 letter to the editor of the Iron Mountain Daily News, Stupak warned that because Michigan law does not require evaluation of [...]
In the wake of the EPA’s decision that no federal permit is necessary for a controversial new nickel sulfide mine to be located on state land near Lake Superior, state officials and mining experts are questioning the state’s ability to adequately regulate the project on its own.
Rio Tinto, the parent company of Kennecott Eagle Minerals, has announced that it will spend $469 million to develop a controversial nickel and copper mine on the Yellow Dog Plain west of Marquette. UpperMichiganSource.com reports that the funding will pay for the construction of the new underground mine, associated surface facilities for servicing the mine, [...]
According to Andy Buchsbaum of the National Wildlife Federation Kennecott’s planned Upper Peninsula nickel sulfide mine, like BP’s Gulf oil wells, is a high risk underground extraction operation characterized by inappropriately cozy relations with regulators. In a blog post titled Coming soon: Michigan’s version of the BP disaster Buchsbaum writes that acid mine drainage is [...]
Shortly after the police raid of Eagle Rock encampment yesterday, the Kennecott mining company bulldozed the site where members of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and others have been protesting a nickel sulfide mine that the company plans to develop on state land. In a story published by Indian Country Today, Greg Peterson reports:
Kennecott Eagle Minerals Co. said this week that a modification to its wastewater management plan means that it no longer requires a permit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and is free to begin construction of a controversial nickel sulfide mine northwest of Marquette, AP reports.
Opponents of a nickel sulfide mine planned by Rio Tinto Corp.’s Kennecott Eagle Minerals Co. for public land on the Yellow Dog Plain near Lake Superior are seeking a chance to argue a fundamental point — that by issuing permits for the mine and leasing 120 acres of public land to the company, the state has failed in its job to steward natural resources in the public interest.
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