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.
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.
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 [...]
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, [...]
Upper Peninsula residents and others will caravan to Lansing on Thursday to rally at the state Capitol and formally petition the governor to authorize an environmental justice review of plans to construct a nickel mine on the Yellow Dog Plains on state land leased to the Kennecott Minerals Co.
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:
Hundreds of people, including members of several regional tribes, have visited Eagle Rock over the last 11 days to show their support for a Native American encampment aimed at protecting the sacred site from mining by the Kennecott Minerals Co.
Brownfields owned by the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in Baraga are being evaluated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy lab as possible locations for wind power projects. According to EPA any future wind power development would be used to support tribal commercial business development and other [...]
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.”
Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Paula Manderfield has agreed to hear arguments about whether the state violated its public trust responsibility when the Department of Natural Resources agreed to lease 120 acres near Lake Superior to the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Co. for mining activities.
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