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Eagle Mine Saga Act Four: Plausible Denial From The Source
Monday , 10, August 2015 Environment, Upper Peninsula 2 CommentsDan Blondeau, the communications representative for Eagle Mine left two comments on the blog last week. Both of them are rather condescending and confrontational, but more importantly, they shed light on the issue with County Road 595. Both were left on the second installment of Eagle Mine Saga and were in response to a reader’s […]
Todd Courser Sucks At Writing Fan Fiction and Cindy Gamrat’s “In His Grip” Didn’t Mean What She Wanted Us To Think
Saturday , 8, August 2015 LGBT Rights, Religious Fundamentalism, Same Sex Marriage, Tea Party, Tealiban 2 CommentsIf you found the blog after googling Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat, welcome. In Todd’s own words, “We are living in the last days.” How many people suspected he was talking about his political career? Anyone who screams as loudly as Gamrat and Courser about the sanctity of traditional marriage is doing so out of […]
Eagle Mine Saga Act Three: 40 More Reasons The People of Michigan Have To Give Lundin Mining Everything They Want
Monday , 3, August 2015 Environment, Upper Peninsula 3 CommentsLet’s recap Eagle Mine’s activities in Marquette County so far. First, the Marquette County Road Commission, being funded by a 501(c)(4) “social welfare” group called Stand U.P., sued the Environmental Protection Agency on July 8 over their temper tantrum with County Road 595. This road, running through Wildcat Canyon, would impact 26 acres of wetlands […]
Eagle Mine Saga Act Two: Tripling Wastewater Outfalls Necessary To Mine’s Industrial Health
Sunday , 2, August 2015 Environment, Upper Peninsula 5 CommentsA recent press release from Save The Wild UP, dated July 23, 2015, states that in January, the Humboldt processing facility for Eagle Mine put in a request for a new permit with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to continue putting wastewater into local watersheds around the plant. The permit also asked to nearly […]
Eagle Mine Saga Act One: Marquette County Road Commission Holds Their Breath Until They Turn Blue
Saturday , 1, August 2015 Environment, Upper Peninsula Leave a commentPlenty has been going on in Marquette County lately with Eagle Mine and the Marquette County Road Commission – and none of it is good. On July 8, the Marquette County Road Commission filed suit with the Environmental Protection Agency over their banning construction of County Road 595. The Road Commission just won’t take no […]