by Carol Thompson
February 10, 2020
LANSING — A Wisconsin tribe is challenging Michigan’s decision to issue a permit for an open-pit mine proposed in the Upper Peninsula, the latest in a series of attempts to stop the controversial project from moving forward.
Please read the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin’s resolution here: “Recognition of the rights of the Menominee River.”
by Isiah Holmes
December 18, 2019
A proposed open pit sulfide mine along the Wisconsin-Michigan border, owned by Canada-based Aquila Resources, has stirred controversy ever since the Menominee Tribe first highlighted the danger it would pose to their sacred lands over a year ago. Called the Back Forty mine, it would operate right in the heart of the Great Lakes basin.
