Wisconsin Resources Protection Council

Few and far between are the opportunities to leverage 10 minutes of our time into a major win for the common good. This is one of those crucial moments. A key public comment period on the design of Aquila Resource’s Back 40 Mine’s tailings containment dam closes on July 5.

Alert citizens are warning us that an ill-advised proposal for a massive metallic sulfide gold mine located on the banks of the Menominee River, an important tributary of Lake Michigan, would bring intolerable and long lasting risks.

EagleHerald/Rick Gebhard
Speakers were set up with the back to the audience as citizens voice their concerns speaking to the panel during the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (formerly the DEQ) hearing Tuesday at Stephenson High School.

STEPHENSON — The public hearing held Tuesday by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, formerly known as the Department of Environmental Quality, brought out hundreds of people to the large gymnasium at Stephenson High School — all of whom had a message for the agency deciding on the future of permits for the Back Forty Mine.

first published by the Detroit News, on June 17, 2019

Will the Menominee River watershed, the largest in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and a significant tributary of Lake Michigan, remain a land of sky blue waters?

Or will an ill-advised metallic sulfide mine proposal, located a mere stone’s throw inland from the river and the Michigan-Wisconsin border, lead to contaminated waters and threaten drinking water supplies?

Realresistanceradio.com

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

Urban Milwaukee

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.

We must be on to something!
Local editorial unleashes smear campaign against environmental activists fighting to save the Willow Flowage

June 25, 2018–State Senator Tom Tiffany just can’t stand to have me question the wisdom of imposing unwanted mining projects that threaten the clean water of Wisconsin. So after my recent testimony against opening up formerly protected lands from mining in Oneida County, he passed along the information on my 1970 antiwar protest conviction to the River News, which ran the story in the June 23, 2018, edition.