Marinette council opposes mine

MARINETTE — Opposition to the Back Forty mine project grew by one municipality on Wednesday evening. 

The City of Marinette formally passed a resolution during a special meeting on Wednesday opposing a plan from Aquila Resources to open an 83-acre mine in Lake Township, Menominee County, north of the Shakey Lakes system and just about 50 yards from the eastern side of the Menominee River. In addition to the resolution in opposition to the mine, the City Council also passed a resolution urging Wisconsin legislators "to enact legislation which would allow the adjacent Wisconsin State government, Wisconsin county governments and local Wisconsin municipalities and towns to have input on the regulation, permitting, operation and reclamation of sulfide mining operations which pertain to sulfide mining operations on Michigan/Wisconsin boundary waters." ...