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.
Cynthia Pryor, a prominent opponent of a nickel sulfide mine planned for state land on the Yellow Dog plain northwest of Marquette, spent two days in jail this week after being arrested for trespassing on land where the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company has begun clearing trees for the first phase of construction for the mine.
The state’s new Department of Natural Resources and Environment is holding a public hearing tonight on permits for a 22 mile long road that has been proposed by Kennecott Eagle Minerals which plans a nickel sulfide mine on the Yellow Dog plain northwest of Marquette. The road is designed to accommodate trucks that will haul [...]
Two days before the DEQ ceases to exist and a week after its director stepped down, DEQ moved to wrap up a long standing fight over permits for a planned nickel sulfide mine by concluding that only buildings may be considered “places of worship.”
Rio Tinto, the global mining company whose subsidiary Kennecott Eagle Minerals has sought to develop a nickel sulfide mine near Marquette, has withdrawn a request to prospect for minerals on public forest land in the western Upper Peninsula, the Lake Superior Mining News reports. On Nov. 6 Rio Tinto notified the Bureau of Land Management [...]
Language for a ballot measure that would restrict mining activities in Michigan has been approved by a state election board, AP reports. Michigan Save Our Water Committee, the group organizing the ballot initiative, says on its website that it plans to collect 400,000 signatures by May 2010 so that the measure to restrict sulfide and [...]
Rio Tinto, the global mining company which planned a controversial nickel sulfide mine in the Upper Peninsula northwest of Marquette, announced today that it will defer development of the same mine until market conditions improve.
My colleague LoRayne Apo-Joynt recently blogged about her frustration with the Marquette Mining Journal. Given her difficult experience with the paper, I am happy to report that the cover of last weekend’s Sunday edition featured an excellent series by Miriam Moeller on the Protect the Earth Summit.
The appeal of Department of Environmental Quality permits issued for an Upper Peninsula sulfide mine wrapped up a fourth week on Friday with testimony from David Stone, a mining engineer for the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company. In response to questions from National Wildlife Federation attorney Michelle Halley, Stone said that he did not know whether [...]
The administrative appeal of Department of Environmental Quality permits issued to the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company for a sulfide mine in the Upper Peninsula is wrapping up its third week in Lansing. Plaintiffs — National Wildlife Federation, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Huron Mountain Club and Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve — argue that the state did [...]
Man beaten near site of planned sulfide mine The 60-year old husband of a prominent Upper Peninsula anti-mining activist was reportedly knocked unconscious and left outside in the freezing rain by three men who first asked if he was a mine opponent. Cynthia Pryor, executive director of Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve, told Michigan Messenger that [...]
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