Posted on Stand for the Land, June 2, 2012
MARQUETTE -- A series of letters recently published in the Marquette Mining Journal reflects ongoing and insistent objections to Rio Tinto’s activities in the Upper Peninsula, particularly with regard to the not-yet operational Eagle Mine Project.
Click here for excerpts from these letters and links to them on Stand for the Land.
Update: Click here to read the June 3, 2012, Guest Op-Ed by Gene Champagne of Big Bay in the Mining Journal: "Science, public relations are two different things."
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Sunday, June 03, 2012
Monday, October 03, 2011
Letter to Mining Journal: "Money challenges"
MARQUETTE -- In a letter to the Marquette Mining Journal, posted Oct. 3, 2011, Gabriel Caplett of Skandia writes about public funds being wasted on large, wealthy corporations and mining companies while local community needs go unfunded.
"Wow, Cliffs' Renewafuel biomass plant is closing already," he writes. "It's amazing the amount of time and forfeited money that has been spent giving Cliffs outrageously generous local and state tax breaks for Renewafuel, and the amount of money Tilden Township recently forfeited to give Cliffs a huge tax break for its mining operations. This to a company that has been posting record profits and has so much cash it has been buying up other companies."
Caplett also points out what the projected County Road 595 for Kennecott could cost the taxpayers -- "tens of thousands of dollars on county staff time and other costs to get it permitted for Kennecott."
If built, the road could cost $100,000 a year to maintain, Caplett adds, while the present budget is vastly insufficient to maintain existing roads....
Click here to read the letter.
"Wow, Cliffs' Renewafuel biomass plant is closing already," he writes. "It's amazing the amount of time and forfeited money that has been spent giving Cliffs outrageously generous local and state tax breaks for Renewafuel, and the amount of money Tilden Township recently forfeited to give Cliffs a huge tax break for its mining operations. This to a company that has been posting record profits and has so much cash it has been buying up other companies."
Caplett also points out what the projected County Road 595 for Kennecott could cost the taxpayers -- "tens of thousands of dollars on county staff time and other costs to get it permitted for Kennecott."
If built, the road could cost $100,000 a year to maintain, Caplett adds, while the present budget is vastly insufficient to maintain existing roads....
Click here to read the letter.
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