Water Celebration Address

Welcome to the Second Annual Water Celebration. We have much to celebrate—there is no sulfide mine next to the Menominee River. If permitted, the proposed Back Forty sulfide mine would be a perpetual pollution machine discharging acid mine drainage to ground- and surface waters in perpetuity.1 So we have to continue with our opposition because the Gold Resource Corporation has taken over the permitting process after Aquila Resources was forced into bankruptcy. The effort to protect the Menominee River has been going on for over 20 years. How did we get to this point? In July 2009, Aquila Resources President Tom Quigley told the Lake Township ...