Wisconsin Resources Protection Council

June 14, 2022

Dear WRPC Member and Friends of the Menominee River,

In July 2009 Aquila Resources President and CEO Tom Quigley told the Lake Township Board, in Menominee County, Michigan that the company expects to receive mining permits for the controversial Back Forty metallic sulfide mine next to the Menominee River in 2010 and begin production as early as 2012. Ten years later Aquila Resources is bankrupt and the mining permits have either been overturned or withdrawn thanks to the combined public education and legal challenges by the Coalition to SAVE the Menominee River and the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.

Our guests: 

Dr. Al Gedicks, environmental sociologist and Indigenous rights activist

Anahkwet (Guy Reiter), executive Director of Menīkānaehkem, Inc.

Dale Burie, Coalition to SAVE the Menominee River

Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 8:00 pm ET / 7:00 pm CT via livestream on Facebook and Zoom

*NOTE THAT THIS LIVESTREAM IS ON A WEDNESDAY, not our usual Thursday*

Eagle Herald

May 11, 2022

Dear Editor,

Aquila Resources has transferred their interests in the Back Forty project west of Stephenson to Gold Resource Corporation (GORO) of Denver. Those of you who had pur- chased Aquila stock have already received your transfer let- ter informing investors of significantly reduced share num- bers and value.

February 16, 2022

Dear WRPC Member and Friends of the Menominee River,

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Wisconsin Resources Protection Council in Medford, Wisconsin in 1982. The major concern of WPRC was the lack of information about the effects of large-scale metallic sulfide mining on our state’s precious water supplies, on the tourism and dairy industries, and upon the many Native American communities that are located near potential mine sites.

Eagle Herald

by Ann Meyer

January 30, 2022