2011 Showdown on the Yellow Dog Plains - The Fight Continues - Now is the Time to Stop Sulfide Mining
Opponents of sulfide "acid" mining in Michigan's Upper Peninsula held two days of strategy meetings in mid-February to galvanize their single ideal:
There is no place for destructive sulfide mining on the Yellow Dog Plains or anywhere in the Great Lakes.
Opponents of Kennecott Minerals and their subsidiaries have teamed with a legend in the battle against those committing environmental crimes.
Environmental warrior Lois Gibbs was dubbed the "Mother of the Superfund" after she successfully battled chemical companies in the infamous Love Canal saga.
Save the Wild U.P. and other sulfide mining opponents met with Boston attorney Peter B. Sessa, who represents the nonprofit Gibbs founded and is executive director - The Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ) in Falls Church, Virginia.
For several days in February 2011, Boston attorney Peter Sessa, representing an environmental nonprofit founded by Lois Gibbs, helped sulfide mining opponents galvanize their battle plans
Groups opposed to the mine will unseat and defeat all elected officials who support the mine.
No Democrat or Republican will be spared as groups seek to expose criminal activities involving Kennecott, its lobbyists and Michigan's greedy elected officials.
Gibbs believes the pristine beauty of northern Michigan is worth saving and said the numerous sulfide mines planned will leave huge areas of the U.P. a moonscape.
The Anishinaabe nation is sickened that Kennecott Eagle Minerals is planning to dynamite through sacred Eagle Rock in the spring of 2011 -- the desecration of a sacred religious, spiritual and ceremonial site for the Ojibwa.
Ojibwa singer Bobby Bullett says placing the entrance of the sulfide mine in Eagle Rock shows a sickness of mind in humans and international corporations have reached.
In fact, all of mines opened by Kennecott Minerals have turned into environmental disasters and the company has been accused of murder and human rights violations.
Many Ojibwa believe that the desecration of Eagle Rock will lead to death and disaster for all those who enter the mine, that opponents hope to halt in its tracks through ongoing litigation and new tactics that will be unveiled in 2011.
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Special thanks to the Chicago-area band "Dragon Fire Parade" for the use of the song "Saturnalia"
http://www.myspace.com/dragonfireparade
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Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ)
Lois Marie Gibbs, Executive Director
http://www.chej.org
chej@chej.org
703-237-2249 ext. 10
703-237-8389 (fax)
Lois Gibbs bio:
http://audubonmagazine.org/profile/profile0811.html
Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ)
150 South Washington St.
P.O. Box 6806
Falls Church, Virginia
22040-6806
Peter Blaise Sessa, attorney and activist in Boston, MA
In February 2011, Boston attorney Peter Sessa helped sulfide mining opponents galvanize their battle plans.
Sessa is a board member for CHEJ, an environmental nonprofit founded by Lois Gibbs.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1289214945&v
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/peter-sessa/12/69/803
http://www.spoke.com/info/c6Cj5TE/SessaGlickQuiroga
Has been working with Lois and CHEJ for 30 years
617-523-3663 (wk)
Sessa, Glick & Quiroga
27 School Street
# 502
Boston, MA
02108-4383
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Save the Wild U.P.
413 N. Third St.
Marquette, MI 49855
info@savethewildup.org
http://www.savethewildup.org
906-228-4444 (office)
Kristi A. Mills, Director
906-250-3350 (cell)
Adrian Bakker, Executive Secretary
adrianbakker@gmail.com
SWUP Facebook Page:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20079015072
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Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve
P. O. Box 5
Big Bay, MI 49808
906-345-9223 (YDWP office)
ydwp@yellowdogwatershed.org
http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org
Emily Whittaker, executive director
elimywhit@hotmail.com
Cynthia Pryor, Sulfide Mining Campaign Director
Wendy Johnson, Preserve Coordinator
Chauncey "River Walker" Moran, Yellow Dog RiverKeeper
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Concerned Citizens of Big Bay
P. O. Box 21
Big Bay, MI 49808
Gene Champagne, founder
906-345-9217
planner@up.net
http://www.nosulfidemine.com
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F. Michelle Halley, National Wildlife Federation attorney and Lake Superior Project manager
P.O. Box 914
Marquette, MI 49855
906-361-0520
halley@nwf.org
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Stand for the Land blog:
http://standfortheland.com
Gabriel Caplett
gcaplett@gmail.com
Teresa Bertossi
teresabertossi@gmail.com
906-942-7325
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Cedar Tree Institute:
http://www.CedarTreeInstitute.org
Rev. Jon Magnuson
magnusonx2@charter.net
906-228-5494 (wk)
906-360-5072 (cell)
Greg Peterson
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute, volunteer media advisor
earthkeeper@charter.net
906-401-0109
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Special thanks:
Laura Farwell, who works quietly behind the scenes
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