For Immediate Release, April 15, 2021
Contact:
Bonnie Gestring, Earthworks, (406) 549-7361, bgestring@earthworksaction.org
Mary Crowe Costello, Rock Creek Alliance, (208) 610-4896, maryrca@rockcreekalliance.org
Derf Johnson, MEIC, (406) 443-2520, x 103, djohnson@meic.org
Jake Bleich, Defenders of Wildlife, (202) 772-3208, jbleich@defenders.org
Andrea Zaccardi, Center for Biological Diversity, (303) 854-7748, azaccardi@biologicaldiversity.org
Bonnie Rice, Sierra Club, (406) 582-8365 x 1, bonnie.rice@sierraclub.org
Federal Court Halts Proposed Rock Creek Mine in Montana’s Cabinet Mountains
Victory: Judge Throws Out Trump Administration’s Controversial Approval of Mine That Threatened Imperiled Grizzly Bears, Bull Trout
MISSOULA,
Mont. The federal district court in Montana on Tuesday invalidated the federal government’s approval of the first phase of the Rock Creek Mine, a major copper and silver mine proposed beneath the Cabinet Mounta
Jake Bleich, Defenders of Wildlife, (202) 772-3208
Andrea Zaccardi, Center for Biological Diversity, (303) 854-7748
Bonnie Rice, Sierra Club, (406) 582-8365, ext. 1 Missoula, MT â
The federal district court in Montana on Tuesday invalidated the federal governmentâs approval of the first phase of the Rock Creek Mine, a major copper and silver mine proposed beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in northwest Montana.
The court ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service violated the Endangered Species Act by unlawfully ignoring the impacts of the full mine proposal on federally protected grizzly bears and bull trout. The ruling safeguards the most vulnerable grizzly bear population in the lower 48 states, threatened bull trout, and sacred and aboriginal lands of the Ktunaxa Nation from the mineâs impacts.Â
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Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town Sammy Fretwell, The State (Columbia, S.C.)
Feb. 12 South Carolina regulators have fined a large gold mine $100,000 for breaking environmental rules, marking the third time in the past year the operation north of Camden has run into trouble with the Department of Health and Environmental Control.
The fine is the largest involving the Haile Gold Mine, and in this case, DHEC said the company released excessive amounts of mercury, failed to submit pollution test results as required, provided misleading statements and failed to get a DHEC permit.
Victory: Ruling rejects company’s bid to rely on decades-old pollution standards to contaminate streams
Contacts
Bonnie Gestring, Earthworks, (406) 546-8386, bgestring@earthworksaction.org
Derf Johnson, MEIC, (406) 581-4634, djohnson@meic.org Helena, MT
Yesterday in a victory for clean water, the Montana Supreme Court rejected a key pollution permit for the proposed Montanore silver-copper mine in the Cabinet Mountain Wilderness in Northwest Montana. The Court ruled that Idaho-based Hecla Mining Company and its subsidiary Montanore Minerals Corporation cannot rely on decades-old pollution standards to degrade pristine streams on public lands.
The Montanore Mine would bore beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness and pollute multiple streams designated as “high quality” waters under Montana law with copper, zinc, chromium, iron, manganese, ammonia, sediment, and other pollutants that are harmful or toxic to aquatic life. While Hecla h