STELLAREPORT KEEPING AN EYE ON THE RIGHT...AND THE WRONG (update)

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1. more from WPR...

http://www.wpr.org/mining-company-puts-penokee-hills-work-hold

Mining Company Puts Penokee Hills Work On Hold
Company Head Points To Uncertainty With Regulatory Issues

The president of mining company Gogebic Taconite said it’s unlikely they’ll resume work at the proposed mine site in the Penokee Hills this winter.

GTAC President Bill Williams said they had plans for more monitoring wells, but that’s been delayed. He said they’re stalling work because the company wants assurance a mine is possible in the Penokees.

“We’ve seen the EPA step out against the Pebble Mine up in Alaska. Are we on their radar? Don’t know,” Williams said.

The Environmental Protection Agency used a section of the Clean Water Act last February to suspend mining activity by the Pebble Mining Company because it endangered the pristine Bristol Bay in Alaska.

Williams said that case, as well as a draft Iron County zoning ordinance, may prevent his company from mining at the northern Wisconsin site. Tribal leaders asked the EPA to intervene last fall.