By Brittany Schmidt
April 17, 2017
MENOMINEE, Mich. (WBAY) — Opponents of a proposed mine on the Wisconsin-Michigan border have a week of protests ahead of them and started Monday with a plea to the Menominee city council.
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2017
by Steve Dent
April 17, 2017
Menominee, MI – The first of three planned protests against the back forty mine this week near Menominee happened tonight during the Menominee City Council Meeting.
by Genevieve Adamski
April 18, 2017
Aqulia Resources is in the process of creating an open-pit sulfide mine along the banks of the Menominee River near Marinette.
Listen to Wisconsin Public Radio’s segment on the proposed Back Forty project, on the Menominee River: https://www.wpr.org/shows/whats-ahead-proposed-back-forty-mine
To read the Sierra Club and WRPC briefing paper on the mining moratorium law, please click on the following link: Mining Moratorium Briefing Paper
Read Dr. Robert Moran’s report on contamination at the Flambeau Mine by clicking on the following link: Moran Flambeau report
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 13, 2017
Legislators Urged to Preserve Mining Moratorium Law
Study Reveals Flambeau Mine Deeply Flawed
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March 23, 2017
Dear WRPC Member and Friends of the Menominee River,
On December 28, 2016, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) approved two of the four required permits for the Back Forty proposed sulfide mine – the Nonferrous Metallic Mineral Mining Permit and the Michigan Air Use Permit. The DEQ is still reviewing the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit and the wetlands permit.
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January 27, 2017
Ontario Securities Commission
Inquiries Unit
20 Queen Street West
20th floor
Toronto, Ontario M5H 358
Dear Sir or Madam:
We are writing regarding a possible case of fraud or misleading information by a company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The case concerns the false or contradictory statements made in Aquila Resources’ Back Forty mine permit application for an open pit gold and zinc sulfide mine to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ).
Al Gedicks and Dave Blouin
Lacrosse Tribune, January 15, 2017
State Sen. Tom Tiffany, R-Hazelhurst, has announced his intention to repeal Wisconsin’s landmark mining moratorium law to make it easier for mining companies to operate metallic sulfide mining operations (gold, copper, zinc) without having to first demonstrate that sulfide mining can be done without polluting the environment (Wisconsin Public Radio, Jan. 10).
The law, known as Wisconsin’s “Prove it First” law, was developed to address the problem of acid mine drainage from metallic sulfide mining.
