Mining Concerns News Today

The US state of Arkansas is seeing growing opposition to the recently passed “Right to Mine” law (Act 851). Local reports highlight that loosened restrictions…

THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has underscored the mining sector’s potential to contribute to the country’s economic recovery. The contribution of the mining industry to the country’s economy in recent years was highlighted by DENR Acting Secretary Jim O. Sampulna during the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB)…

Our bill weir went there to take a look at how people there feel about it. >> amid countless signs of a climate in crisis, a camera phone captured a fund-raiser on the pa nins la not far from the swan lake fire. >> with donald trump on speaker, that is alaskan senator dan sullivan holding the phone and swatting at hornets. the president promises to help them drill for oil in the arctic national wildlife refuge up north and build a road in the south. and then governor mike dunlevey enters the pic...

Force one, dunleavy said this about the president. >> really believes in the opportunities for alaska, and hes going to do everything he can to work with us on our mining concerns. >> reporter: sources tell cnn the very next day, june 27th, top epa officials in washington held an internal video conference with seattle and told the staff the epa was removing a special protection for bristol bay and, in essence, clearing the way for what could be one of the largest open pit mines in the world. tha...

Fisheries. after his meeting dunleavy said this about the president. >> he believes in the opportunities in alaska and hell do everything he can to work with us on our mining concerns. >> reporter: inside epa sources tell us the very next day, june 27th, top epa executives told the staff the epa was removing a special protection for bristol bay and in essence clearing the way for what could be one of the largest open pit mines in the world. that internal announcement was a total shock to top epa...