Apr
26
2019
by Bryan Kelly
Listen to Al Gedicks’ interview, here: https://realresistanceradio.com/podcast/al-gedicks-uw-lacrosse-emeritus-professor-of-environmental-sociology/
Mining company’s proposed tailings dam could cause massive pollution of Lake Michigan.
by Al Gedicks
April 18, 2019
On January 25, 2019, a 28-story high tailings dam in Brumadinho, in southeastern Brazil failed, releasing almost 3 billion gallons of sludgy mine waste. The spill flooded nearby homes, submerging cars and buses under a river of reddish-brown sludge. The death toll so far has risen to 228 with an estimated 49 people still missing and presumed dead. This is Brazil’s deadliest-ever mining accident.
Apr
11
2019
[L-R: Guy Reiter of the Menominee Indian Tribe, Jud Sojourn, Ph.D. of Center for Native American Studies at NMU. Kathleen Heideman of the U.P. Environmental Coalition, Al Gedicks of the Wisconsin Resources Protection Council]
A local environmentalist group, The Interfaith Northern Great Lakes Water Stewards, is holding three public forums called “Clean Water, Wild Places” regarding the Back Forty project, a sulfide mining project in the Western Upper Peninsula.
Apr
07
2019
April 3, 2019
Dear WRPC Member and Friends of the Menominee River,
Aquila’s full-page ad in the March 2, 2019 edition of the Eagle Herald sought to reassure the public about the safety of the Back Forty’s proposed tailings storage facility in light of the recent Brazilian tailings dam disaster that killed over 200 people with an estimated 91 others still missing and presumed buried under mud. This is Brazil’s deadliest-ever mining accident. A steady stream of letters to the editor of the Eagle Herald have expressed serious public concerns about the safety of Aquila’s tailings dam design.
