Margaret Comfort is beginning her great adventure
posted by: Bill Chesney | 08 21, 2008 |
A reminder to all groups that Margaret Comfort is beginning her great adventure this Sunday at Eagle Rock to walk from Eagle Rock to the Mackinac Bridge.
The highlights are:
Sunday August 17
Eagle Rock - 4:00 pm
Blessing Ceremony
Monday August 18
Eagle Rock - 9:00 am
Walk begins to Big Bay**
Monday August 18
Perkins Park - 6:30 pm
Potluck - Meat by YDWP, please bring a dish
Big Bay
Tuesday August 19
Big Bay - 10:00 am
Parade/Walk through Big Bay - bring a sign!
Thursday August 21
Tourist Park - 10:00 am
Parade/Walk through Marquette - bring a sign!
Saturday August 24
Falling Rock Cafe - 10:00 am
Breakfast with Margaret
Munising
Walk through Munising - bring a sign!
Monday August 26
Driggers Road - 9:00 am
Walk through Seney Refuge
M-28 Seney Stretch to Germfask
Monday Sept 1
St. Ignace - 7:00 am
Walk Across the Bridge
Labor Day with Governor (no signs allowed, but we will have t-shirts with message)
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Suit challenges legality of DNR, Kennecott lease
posted by: Bill Chesney | 08 14, 2008 |
A failure by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to follow state law will be challenged before the Ingham County Circuit Court as a result of a suit filed today by opponents seeking reversal of a land lease with Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company.
It has been three weeks since the MDNR granted approval to the unprecedented lease that grants KEMC, a for-profit company with no ties to Michigan, exclusive use of 120 acres of state-owned land for a period of decades. KEMC is planning to construct surface facilities for a sulfide mining operation on the Marquette County property. Those challenging the decision say it violates the Michigan Environmental Protection Act, the Michigan Revised Judicature Act, and Michigan's public trust doctrine.
Acting as co-petitioners in the suit, the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Huron Mountain Club and Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve are asking the court to declare the surface lease void, find that the conduct related to the surface lease would pollute, impair or destroy natural resources, and therefore instruct the MDNR and KEMC to halt any conduct related to the surface lease.
"The State of Michigan has never issued a lease of state lands similar in scope to this one in terms of the amount of land at issue, the period of years, the risky nature of the proposed activity and the long-term implications. This decision is a pivotal one for the future of Michigan's public lands and this flawed decision cannot go unchallenged," said Michelle Halley, attorney for NWF.
Halley and co-petitioners say that, by entering into the surface lease, MDNR violated its duty under state law to refrain from authorizing conduct that is likely to pollute, impair or destroy the air, water or other natural resources, or the public trust in those resources, if there is a feasible alternative. KEMC owns land in the vicinity that would meet the criteria of a feasible alternative.
The same petitioners have also filed suit challenging the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality's decision to grant mining, groundwater and air permits for the same project. The first of those challenges will be heard by an administrative law judge on April 28, 2008. |
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Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation
posted by: Bill Chesney | 08 14, 2008 |
www.saveMIwater.org
a website dedicated to helping Michigan's citizens protect one of our most valuable natural resources: our communities' water supplies. "We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry."
-English Proverb
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Save the Wild UP
posted by: Bill Chesney | 08 14, 2008 |
www.savethewildup.org
Daisy May has donated her song A Letter from Downstream to Save the Wild UP. Members of the Downstream group on Flickr are each sharing a photo that shows why Michigan can't afford to be downstream from sulfide mines.
Your contributions and involvement are urgently needed to continue our efforts. Please click and donate what you can - all donors will receive a link to download the song!!
Save the Wild UP is a Marquette-based, grassroots organization with deep concerns about the economic, social, and environmental impacts of nonferrous mining. Save the Wild UP + Action is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Membership is open to all who desire to help Save the Wild U.P. and contribute money or provide services, sign up for Internet alerts on this website, and protect the quality of our environment and the permanent economic base of our economy by opposing this experimental, historically risky, metallic sulfide or uranium mining. |
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Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve
posted by: Bill Chesney | 08 14, 2008 |
www.yellowdogwatershed.org
A nonprofit organization whose vision is the preservation of the Yellow Dog River and surrounding area in Northern Marquette County of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan |
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Northwoods Wilderness Recovery
posted by: Bill Chesney | 08 14, 2008 |
www.northwoodswild.org
A rich history of environmental service protecting the forests, waters and lands of the Upper Peninsula. |
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Superior Watershed Partnership
posted by: Bill Chesney | 08 14, 2008 |
www.superiorwatersheds.org
The mission of the Superior Watershed Partnership is to protect and improve the natural resources of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on a watershed basis; by promoting responsible individual and community actions that ensure a sustainable environment, encourage a sustainable economy and help improve quality of life. |
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World Changing
posted by: Bill Chesney | 08 14, 2008 |
www.worldchanging.com
Ed Burtynsky's photographs show us the world transformed by human industry, and the grim future we're creating.
Worldchanging shows us a different world - the future we could create. A bright green future, a sustainable, prosperous, dynamic future for all. On a planet full of problems, Worldchanging calls attention to solutions, illuminating tools, models and ideas for building that future.
We have a choice to make. We can build a future of green products and industry, renewable energy and leapfrogging technologies, clean water and fresh air, livable cities and healthy children. Or we can have the kind of world Ed Burtynsky shows us. |
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Circle of Blue
posted by: Bill Chesney | 08 14, 2008 |
www.circleofblue.org
Connecting humanity to the challenges and solutions of the global freshwater crisis. |
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