Jul
15
2016
July 13, 2016
Dear WRPC Member and Friends of the Menominee River,
Over 2,000 members of the public wrote to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) to express serious concerns about Aquila’s proposed Back Forty metallic sulfide mining proposal next to the Menominee River. Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request from a concerned citizen we now know what MDEQ was reluctant to disclose: an astounding 98.2% of all signatures and comments opposed the project! Save the Wild U.P. has summarized the comments and provided excerpts on their website: http://bit.ly/98PercentOpposed
