Fort Belknap Tribes, conservation groups file complaint
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Tribes, conservation groups to challenge Montana s failure to enforce Bad Actor law
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Tribes, Conservation Groups to Challenge Montana’s Failure to Enforce “Bad Actor” Law Denounce Gianforte Administration Decision to Let Mining Executive Off “Scot-Free”
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August 3, 2021
Contact: Andrew Werk Jr., President, Fort Belknap Indian Community, (406) 390-2650, [email protected] | Bonnie Gestring, Earthworks, (406) 546-8386, [email protected] | Mary Costello, Rock Creek Alliance, (406) 827-4896, [email protected] | Andrew Gorder, Clark Fork Coalition, (605) 695-3357, [email protected] | Anne Hedges, Montana Environmental Information Center, (406) 461-9546, [email protected] | Whitney Tawney, Montana Conservation Voters Education Fund, (406) 254-1593, [email protected] | Shiloh Hernandez, Earthjustice, (406) 586-9699, [email protected]
(HELENA, Mont.) – Today, tribes and conservation groups announced plans to file a legal action to require the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to fulfill its legal duty to enforce the �
Enviro, tribal groups upset with Gianforte over Hecla mining decision
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The Pegasus Mine at Zortman
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MISSOULA â Environmental and conservation groups, and some tribal leaders, are saying they re deeply disappointed with the Gianforte administration for deciding not to use a recent ruling to press bad actors to clean up mine waste.
A Gianforte spokesperson said the governor is simply empowering state agencies to act as they see fit.
The question first came up in 2018, when the Bullock administration, through the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, faulted Hecla Mining President and CEO Phillip Baker Jr. for his involvement in the ill-fated Pegasus Gold operations in the Little Rocky Mountains. That company went bankrupt 20-years ago, leaving behind cyanide and other contamination at Zortman, which costs the state $2 million per year.