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.
Michigan assesses severance tax when companies remove natural gas and oil and some state officials say operators of high-grade metallic mines should also be charged for removing minerals from the ground. In an article published in The Bridge today Jeff Alexander writes that Michigan could raise $400 million in revenue from Kennecott’s UP nickel and [...]
Opponents of the Kennecott nickel sulfide mine under development west of Marquette are asking Attorney General Bill Schuette to investigate the process by which state regulators permitted the mine.
A closed down Kennecott metallic sulfide mine in northern Wisconsin is leaching potentially toxic metals into ground and surface waters in violation of the Clean Water Act, according to a citizens lawsuit filed in federal court last week.
The owners of a controversial new mine in Michigan’s upper peninsula have released the results of focus group meetings with nearly 100 residents of the area about the mine. The mine is owned by Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company and has been the target of protests and increased concerns about environmental issues stemming from the mining [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it will not require the Kennecott Eagle Mineral Co. to get a federal permit for the waste water system at its planned nickel mine in the Upper Peninsula.
Kennecott’s planned nickel sulfide mine in the Upper Peninsula should not move forward until citizens have assurance that Kennecott is prepared to respond to any environmental problems that the mine could cause, Democratic State Rep. and District 1 congressional candidate Gary McDowell said this week.
Rio Tinto, the global mining company whose subsidiary, Kennecott, is building a nickel sulfide mine west of Marquette, has earned a reputation for a willingness to cut corners on safety and environmental safeguards, U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) warned in an op-ed distributed across northern Michigan over the weekend. Stupak, who chairs of the House [...]
A Marquette jury has found Cynthia Pryor guilty of trespassing on state land leased to the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company. Pryor is the sulfide mine campaign director for the Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve. She was arrested and charged with trespassing on April 20 after she refused to leave land on the Yellow Dog Plains that [...]
Kennecott Eagle Minerals, the Rio Tinto subsidiary that is working to develop a nickel and copper mine on the Yellow Dog Plains west of Marquette, has withdrawn its request for a permit to build a 22 mile long road to transport ore to a processing facility. The planned Woodland Road drew objections from the U.S. [...]
Since Saturday Native Americans from the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and elsewhere have been camped out on public land that has been leased by the state to a transnational mining corporation for development of a nickel and copper mine.
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