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 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.
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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:
Two members of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community were arrested at the site of Kennecott’s proposed Upper Peninsula nickel mine this morning. For the last month KBIC tribal members and others have occupied an area of state land leased to Kennecott in hopes of blocking development of the mine which they say will harm the [...]
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.”
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