I agree.

The Director of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Steven Chester, said, last September, “We simply don’t have the kind of funding we need to adequately implement the laws we’re required to implement.”

This strongly suggests the State is incapable of enforcing a company like Kennecott.

Last June, in court, the DEQ’s coordinator for review of Kennecott’s Eagle Project, Joe Maki, acknowledged, under oath, that niether he, nor his team, followed a central tenent of Michigan’s new metallic mining law (the court transcript is here – http://lakesuperiorminingnews.net/reports/ – ; an article on it is here – http://lakesuperiorminingnews.net/2008/10/28/michigan-fails-to-follow-own-law-in-kennecott-approval/).

This seems to strongly suggest that the State is unwilling to follow the law.

And where are our elected officials? It seems they are all on board at this point, with their mouths (and minds) shut.