2011 Showdown on the Yellow Dog Plains Part 1: It's Time to Stop Sulfide Mining in U.P. of Michigan
Channel: WAVECleanWater
Date: 11/07/2011

Opponents of sulfide "acid" mining in Michigan's Upper Peninsula held 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.

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 Bullet 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 - A dangerous mine on sacred ground that opponents plan to stop in its tracks through ongoing litigation and new tactics that will be unveiled in 2011.

Dr. David Sainsbury outlined many safety concerns about the Kennecott Eagle Minerals sulfide mine

http://lakesuperiorminingnews.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/sainsbury-may-6-2006-report.pdf

The National Wild Life Federation outlines safety concerns, state cover-up:

http://74.220.215.226/~savethew/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/2007-0409-nwf-knot-analysis-to-date.pdf

Thanks to the Chicago-area band "Dragon Fire Parade" for use of the song "Am I The Only One Alive""
http://www.myspace.com/dragonfireparade

Some photos in this video were taken/provided by:

Wikipedia

Brian Charles Watson

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

United States Navy

International Bird Rescue Research Center

Gobierno de Chile

Desierto Atacama

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Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ)
Falls Church, VA
Lois Marie Gibbs, Executive Director
http://www.chej.org
chej@chej.org
703-237-2249

http://audubonmagazine.org/profile/profile0811.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Gibbs

In Feb. 2011, Boston attorney Peter Sessa helped sulfide mining opponents galvanize their battle plans.
Sessa is a CHEJ board member
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1289214945&v
www.linkedin.com/pub/peter-sessa/12/69/803

Save the Wild U.P.
413 N. Third St.
Marquette, MI
49855

info@savethewildup.org
http://www.savethewildup.org
906-228-4444

Kristi A. Mills, Director
906-250-3350 (cell)

Adrian Bakker, Executive Secretary
adrianbakker@gmail.com

SWUP Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20079015072

Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve
P. O. Box 5
Big Bay, MI
49808

906-345-9223
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

Concerned Citizens of Big Bay
P. O. Box 21
Big Bay, MI
49808

Gene Champagne, founder
906-345-9217
planner@up.net
www.nosulfidemine.com

F. Michelle Halley, National Wildlife Federation attorney
Marquette, MI

906-361-0520
halley@nwf.org

http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/Media-Center/Faces-of-NWF/Michelle-Halley.aspx

http://search.nwf.org/search?q=sulfide%20mine&site=default_collection&client=default_frontend&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd

Stand for the Land blog
http://standfortheland.com

Gabriel Caplett
gcaplett@gmail.com

Teresa Bertossi 
teresabertossi@gmail.com
906-942-7325

Cedar Tree Institute
www.CedarTreeInstitute.org
Rev. Jon Magnuson
magnusonx2@charter.net
906-228-5494
906-360-5072

Greg Peterson
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute, volunteer media advisor
earthkeeper@charter.net
906-401-0109

Thanks to Laura Farwell, working quietly behind the scenes