Published by Door County Pulse, Peninsula Pulse – December 6th, 2019
The Nov. 22 letter to the editor from Nathan Conrad, “executive director,” Natural Resource Development Association, is misleading. A few months ago, this person listed himself as “communications director.” His so-called “association” is listed as having only two people as associates. This man did not tell us he lives in Canada or that he is a paid lobbyist for mining. Is that ethical not to tell us that?
PENNY MULLINS, EH news editor/digital director
December 6, 2019
Eagle Herald
MENOMINEE — Tom Boerner, who owns land in Lake Township directly adjacent to the Back Forty Mine, said Wednesday he doesn’t see the recent decision by a state review panel as changing too much in his and others fight against the gold and silver mine becoming a reality in Menominee County.
November 20, 2019
Eagle Herald
Dear Editor,
Interesting history of local mining (EagleHerald, page A7, Nov. 4). Many things have made today’s mining much worse than yesteryear’s. In the gold rush days, mining was like picking the chocolate chips out of the cookie. Notice the pickaxe and shovel on the WI flag. Today’s mining is mining the sugar out of the cookie. About 98% of today’s mine product is waste rock. The local proposed metallic sulfide mine’s waste rock reacting with air and water, becomes sulfuric acid.
By Ryan Heise, Peninsula Pulse –
At some point during the summer bustle, I had the occasion to speak with an agitated gentleman who owns a home on the waters of Green Bay in Egg Harbor. He was concerned about air cannons blasting continually on Hat Island across from his home. I envisioned him on the other side of the phone, red-eyed and disheveled from lack of sleep.
PENNY MULLINS, EH news editor/digital director
October 24, 2019
Eagle Herald
GREEN BAY — A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Coalition to Save the Menominee River against the developers of the Back Forty Mine in Menominee County, as well as several federal agencies.
October 11, 2019
Eagle Herald
Dear Editor,
Back Forty project — is it a done deal? No.
Aquila does not have all necessary Back Forty permits. As of Oct. 6, only one of five required permits has been both issued and deemed “effective,” and that is the NPDES Permit, No. 1 on the list below.
September 24, 2019
Eagle Herald
Dear Editor,
This letter will correct Dale Anderson’s false claims (published in a Letter to the Editor Sept. 20). He and Aquila both got false claims printed recently. No, they do not have all the permits. No, they will not be mining next year. It’s more likely than ever now that they’ll never mine this site, with their dangerous design plan.
September 18, 2019
Dear WRPC Member and Friends of the Menominee River,
Aquila’s Back Forty project is in deep trouble. Two federal lawsuits and two contested case administrative proceedings have challenged the proposed mine. Having failed to obtain a social license to operate a mine, Aquila has offered to fund the costs of reaching a “Community Agreement” if the community “agrees not to oppose the Mine or to take any action which would serve to unreasonably delay the construction of the Mine.” Not surprisingly, local communities have told Aquila “No thanks.”
September 18, 2019
The willingness of top Michigan regulators to ignore their own scientific staff and approve a wetland permit for a controversial open pit mine next to the Menominee River on the Michigan-Wisconsin border has been reported by Urban Milwaukee, but is only the beginning of a dangerous decision-making process. The proposed Back Forty metallic sulfide mine is owned by Aquila Resources, a Canadian exploration company that has no experience with mining.
September 17, 2019
Eagle Herald
Dear Editor,
Aquila Resources continually states they have all permits to begin mining. That is a blatantly false statement.
Aquila’s Part 632 Permit is not valid as it was contested and remains in review.
