Wisconsin Resources Protection Council

April 8, 2016

Dear WRPC Member,

I just got off the phone with Joe Maki, head of the mining division of Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ). I asked him how many public comments his office received on Aquila’s Back 40 mine permit application. He said he didn’t know. His office logged the comments on a database but there was no tally. I said if the comments were on a database, it should be easy enough to come up with a total number. “No.” He said if I wanted to submit a Freedom of Information Act request, I could pay for copies of the documents and do my own tally. 

Back 40 Mining Permit Application

Review Comments

February 15, 2016

Al Gedicks, Wisconsin Resources Protection Council

14 Copeland Avenue # 115

La Crosse, WI 54603-3413

Where is the report on potential acid mine drainage and heavy metal contamination?

by Al Gedicks

ZMagazine

April 25, 2015

The environmental devastation from past and ongoing gold mining operations in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras has provoked a formidable Salvadoran social movement that has been educating and organizing communities for a total ban against metallic mining in El Salvador. In response, companies like Canada’s Pacific Rim and Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Commerce Group have filed multi-million dollar lawsuits against the Salvadoran government trying to force the country into submission—and to get out of paying for environmental damage they have already caused.