Once again, the Army Corps of Engineers has objected to Kennecott’s planned ore hauling road, in Marquette County. The road project, formerly called “Woodland Road,” but now going by “County Road 595” and applied for by the county road commission, “is deficient in several areas,” according to a letter dated March 29, sent from the Corps’ Detroit office to the Environmental Protection Agency.
The letter makes clear that the “the primary beneficiary of the route as proposed would be Kennecott.” According to the Corps, 595 “is the most direct route from the Eagle Mine to Kennecott’s ore processing facility,” in Humboldt Township, so the road plan should be clear it would be built largely to service Kennecott’s mining operations.
Army Corps Objects to Kennecott Haul Road
April 15, 2012
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Rio Tinto Wilderness Haul Road Plan Cancelled a Second Time
January 18, 2011The 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:
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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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