Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve

Orvana Minerals submitted their mining permit application on Friday, September 23.  By the following Monday, it was deemed administratively complete by Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. A permit review team has already been assembled and is currently reviewing the application. The application is available online at the following website: http://www.michigan.gov/documents/deq/Orvana_Copperwood_Part_632_Permit_Application_files_4_web_364638_7.pdf According to Orvana Resources, the company entered [...]

Despite continued opposition to the development of mining operations at the base of Eagle Rock on the Yellow Dog Plains, Kennecott Eagle Minerals began the first stages of boring the tunnel that will be used to extract ore from underneath the Salmon-Trout River. On September 22, 2011, charges were set so that drilling and excavation [...]

Judge Paula Manderfield denied a motion of stay this Tuesday the 14th of September, which would have blocked the Kennecott Eagle Minerals Co. from excavating the portal to its nickel and copper mine on the Yellow Dog Plains until the appeals case  is decided. The National Wildlife Federation, Huron Mountain Club, Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve and Keweenaw Bay [...]

MARQUETTE, MICH. (September 1, 2011) – A coalition of groups yesterday asked a judge to halt imminent mining activity that would desecrate a sacred Native American site and jeopardize water quality for the Great Lakes and one of the region’s last spawning grounds for the coaster brook trout. The Huron Mountain Club, Keweenaw Bay Indian [...]

Below is a statement from Scott Rutherford, a U.P. resident that has decided to fast in response to the continued construction of the Eagle Mine on the Yellow Dog Plains. Why I’m Fasting to Halt Construction of the Eagle Mine Friends, On July 9, I began a water-only, open ended fast to protest the construction of [...]