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.
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, [...]
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Tinto subsidiary that is working to develop a nickel and copper mine on the Yellow Dog Plains west of Marquette, has withdrawn its request for a permit to build a 22 mile long road to transport ore to a processing facility.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. [...]
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company whose subsidiary Kennecott Eagle Minerals has sought to develop a nickel sulfide mine near Marquette, has withdrawn a request to prospect for minerals on public forest land in the western Upper Peninsula, the Lake Superior Mining News reports.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 [...]
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.
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.
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.
The world’s largest mining company, the Melbourne-based BHP Billiton has dropped its $16 billion bid to take over Rio Tinto which is working to develop mines in Michigan. Rio Tinto, through its subsidiary Kennecott Eagle Minerals Co., is in the process of securing permits for a controversial nickel and copper mine in the Upper Peninsula [...]
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