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 �
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Greens Creek, the country’s largest silver mine located near Juneau, produced slightly less silver in the first half of 2021 even as prices rebounded from pandemic-induced lows. The company attributed the decline to lower grade ore processing. (Photo/Courtesy/Hecla Mining Co.)
Production at the country’s largest silver mine was down to start the year despite strong metal prices due to processing lower-grade ore, according the mine’s owner.
Idaho-based Hecla Mining Co., which owns the underground Greens Creek mine near Juneau, reported silver production of approximately 2.55 million ounces in the second quarter July 13. That was a decrease of 7 percent from a year ago.
In a reversal, Montanaâs Department of Environmental Quality wonât press for âbad actorâ sanctions against Hecla Mining Co. executive Phillips Baker for leaving unfinished reclamation work on several past gold mines.
Under former Gov. Steve Bullockâs administration, DEQ had attempted to use Montanaâs Bad Actor law to prohibit Baker from working with Hecla to develop new copper and silver mines next to the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in Lincoln County.
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In the departmentâs brief to the court, DEQ attorney Sarah Clerget wrote that the election of Gov. Greg Gianforte and appointment of a new director of the agency prompted âa very careful look at the entire record of this case.â
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