The Marquette Mining Journal is reporting that Rio Tinto is once again cancelling plans to build a controversial ore haul road through remote lands in northwestern Marquette County [Read previous Headwaters' coverage of this issue by contributor Catherine Parker]. The decision comes after a December meeting where federal officials made clear that original objections to the road project would not change simply because the company now planned it to be a public, instead of a private road:
Rio Tinto Wilderness Haul Road Plan Cancelled a Second Time
January 18, 2011
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PolyMet Caught Lying; Mine Plan Bad As It Gets
March 9, 2010In February, the US Environmental Protection Agency issued a strong condemnation of the environmental review of PolyMet’s proposed NorthMet mine. The project, and its environmental review have been heartily endorsed by state and federal politicians, including US Senator Al Franken and US Representative James Oberstar.
According to EPA statistics, PolyMet’s “draft environmental impact statement,” (DEIS) is incredibly incompetent. Less than 0.4% of all such reviews obtain such a bottom-of-the-barrel rating.
Disturbingly, PolyMet’s amateurish DEIS was conducted by a firm working with Aquila Resources to develop a zinc-gold mine on the Menominee River, in Michigan. Read the rest of this entry »
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