Thanks to a major pollution cleanup effort by multiple federal and state agencies and citizen groups, the Lower Menominee River will be “delisted” or removed as an “Area of Concern” for pollution and habitat loss. This restoration work took more than two decades and cost at least $200 million, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The delisting of the Lower Menominee River was announced at the same time that American Rivers, a national conservation group, named the Menominee River one of the 10 most endangered rivers in America, citing the threat from Aquila Resources’ proposed metallic sulfide mine on the banks of the river. This is the second time in four years that the river has made the endangered list. Why spend so much time and money on cleaning up pollution in the Lower Menominee River only to allow potential toxic discharges from the proposed Back Forty mine into the headwaters of the river?
Ken Notes: Great points and I am pretty sure the Back Forty Mine will say anything to move forward then do the very least amount of prevention to save costs on the other end. I also promise the if we could see the real budget for the mine the cost of both fines and political contributions are in there as a "cost of doing business".
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