Comments on: Is Michigan’s BP Disaster Brewing in the UP?

By: Air Rift

Air Rift — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:52:01 +0000

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By: Pete Anderson

Pete Anderson — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:43:20 +0000

Mr. Schwartz obviously does not have a clue about the current landownership in Marquette County. The Huron Mountain Club, with somewhere around a hundred members owns most of the Huron Mountains and the coast line from just north of Big Bay into Baraga County. They do not allow access to the land for anybody but their super rich members and would never consider giving it away to make a park. If they did agree the boundary line could be the AAA road with anything North of it being a park. That area is just cut over jack pine and would be a perfect buffer much like the south boundary road at the Porkies and the Boundary road at Pictured Rocks.
You seem to think that those of us that live and work here want thousands of people from Chicago oogling from their cars at the scenery. We dont or we would live there.
By the way how would the thousands of people from Chicago and elsewhere get here once we quit mining nickel you can forget about your nickel hybrid batteries, stainless steel waterbottles and just about every other metal component manufactured today.

Kennecott has met every requirement set forth by the State and Federal government for this project and should be allowed to proceed.
I was at their site last Friday and it will have very little impact to the people who use the area for hunting, fishing hiking and other outdoor activities. It will also provide badly needed jobs that are not taxpayer supported make work programs.

By: Kathleen Winsten

Kathleen Winsten — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:59:56 +0000

Granholm should be rendered unable to have a good night’s sleep from now until she dies, nor should any other politician who let this happen.
Is there no common sense in government at all any more?
What else can we humans do to violate our earth?
The money is everything, and everything is money policy will die only when we are extinct.

By: William Cramer

William Cramer — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 04:05:17 +0000

Now let me get this right. The Queen sends out a team of explorers to search distant lands for precious metals and other quality riches. They travel to distand shores, they contact the native habitats, they bargin with the people and for a few promises and a lot of shiny beads they take what they want and leave the people with a useless waste land and head back home. Naaa!! That can’t happen again. We have responsible, trusted Congressmen and Law Officials that prevent things like that from happening.
God help us

By: William G. Boerner

William G. Boerner — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:40:09 +0000

I believe all of Rio Tinto’s mining explorations thruout the world be examined. Not for billions of dollars extracted from the earth; but the hazaderous waste sites left behind. Lets make them clean up the messes they left before we give any new permits to make more. Include Chevron’s mess in the Amazon with these demands and big oil elsewhere.

By: ken schwartz

ken schwartz — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:32:36 +0000

Phil,

I read this article with great interest since I have been blowing this horn around Washtenaw County for over a year and now I’m starting to get a few listeners. Jeff Irwin, Washtenaw County Commissioner and State Rep candidate for the 53th wants to start the process of making much of Marquette and Baraga counties a national park. The Huron Mountain National Park. This new national park in Michigan will complement Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Isle Royale is Michigan’s only national park and it’s a 55 mile boat trip to get there. There’s limited opportunities for seniors or the disabled to enjoy Isle Royale as it is maintained as an undeveloped park. The preservation of the Huron Mountain area will be accessible, and if successfully developed will be enjoyed by all Americans forever.

The positive economic impact of a national park will last generations and Marquette and Baraga will see greatly improved economies. In 1957 the Huron Mountains were selected as the best site along the Great Lakes Shoreline to preserve and some of the most beautiful land east of the Mississippi.

The nickel sulfide mining project in this area will denude and pollute this great part of wild Michigan and will not provide the People of Michigan the economic growth promised and will lose the great cultural and recreational asset of a national park. A few years ago Conde Nast magazine rated the upper peninsula as one of the top ten tourist destinations in the world and last year Liane Hansen of NPR raved about the beauty and food of the U.P. as she toured this vast and unspoiled land.

Phil, I hope you can join Jeff Irwin and myself and push to preserve the Huron Mountains forever. This development will attract thousands each year from Chicago and Minneapolis to spend their money in Michigan admiring this unique world asset. One accident at the Eagle mine could destroy much of Lake Superior just as one accident has despoiled much of the Gulf of Mexico. I hope you continued success to push awareness below the bridge of this potentially devastating mining venture.