Controversial Rio Tinto subsidiary Kennecott mine permits OK’d at 11th hour
Two days before the Michigan State Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) ceased to exist and a week after its director stepped down, DEQ moved to wrap up a long standing fight over permits for a planned nickel sulphide mine by concluding that only buildings may be considered “places of worship” and that therefore a rock [...]
Rio Tinto drops exploration plans in Iron County, Michigan
Rio Tinto, the London-based mining company whose subsidiary Kennecott Eagle Minerals has sought to develop a nickel sulphide mine near Marquette, Michigan, USA, has withdrawn a request to prospect for minerals on public forest land in Michigan’s western Upper Peninsula. Concerns about the environmental impact of mines in Michigan are behind a proposed 2010 ballot [...]
At It Again: Rio Tinto Tries Busting California Miners’ Union
Regardless of whether it’s true or not, Rio Tinto always seems to know what to say. Rio Tinto boasts to the public, gullible politicians and job hopefuls in Michigan that the company is doing well financially, in order to lend the impression that the company’s Eagle Mine, in the Huron Mountains of the Upper Peninsula, [...]
Rio Tinto’s Eagle Project allowed with caveat
Judge upholds permits for Rio Tinto subsidiary’s mine in USA, but with caveat
Administrative Law Judge Richard Patterson announced on Tuesday, August 18, that he will uphold permits issued to Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) in 2007 for the company’s “Eagle Project,” a nickel and copper sulfide mine on [...]
Rio Tinto sued for pollution at “best practice” mine “
A few years ago Rio Tinto walked away from one of the most controversial mines in its recent history – the Flambeau copper project in Wisconsin, USA. A coalition of Native American and local people had taken up arms against one of the world’s biggest mining companies, but lost. The company has claimed it fulfilled [...]
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