I quote from you, "I smell a rat": "Enough with the hippy pow wow activism." Is it necessary to make your point with racial slurs? You only demonstrate your ignorance. Please refrain from generalizations, racial inuendos and characterizing all comments and/or the commenters into racial groups that you have no idea whether or not they apply. It is insulting regardless of which side of the issue you or I or anyone else are on, regarding the proposed sulfide mining project. Just the facts. And cite your references that helped to form your opinion or side on the issue. It is not necessary to insult either side - yours or others. Opinions are just that opinions. Facts are facts. Don't confuse the two.

YOU ALL NEED TO GET A GRIP, IF THERE ARE NO JOBS...THERE IS NO NEED FOR TEACHERS OR SCHOOLS TO STAY OPEN, FOR BUSINESSES TO STAY OPEN..PEOPLE WILL CONTINUE TO EXODUS THE UP, MARQUETTE, BIG BAY...KEEP FINDING REASONS TO NOT HAVE KENNECOTT... FOR BETTER ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS..WHETHER GAS OR ELECTRIC, BETTER WATER SYSTEMS, NOT AT THE TAX PAYERS COST..BUT KENNECOTT...IT IS NO LONGER JUST A REGIONAL INTEREST, BUT NATIONAL INTEREST..WHAT DO YOU THINK THE WHOLE GREEN EFFECT WILL RUN ON...NICKEL...PHONES, CARS, OUR CHILDRENS FUTURES, WASHINGTON KNOWS THIS..WHY CAN'T YOU OPEN YOUR EDUCATED GAHANDI MINDS AND LEARN TO WORK WITH IT...OH, THATS RIGHT..YOUR ALL EDUCATED...YEAH....RIGHT.

How many people complaining about the new mining potential Kennicot is attempting to bring into the UP have actual read and understand the permits the mine has to have to operate? How can mining practices from 50-100 years ago be compared to mining today? There is so much regulation in todays mining industry that mining is probably better for the enviornment than alot of other industries!

Kennecott says one thing to make things sound somewhat environmentally responsible(to the best of their ability- which ain't saying too much) then they announce completely different plans more in line with fattening their billion dollar bottom line. First Kennecott says they will use deisel generators for minimal impact to the undeveloped nature of the proposed Eagle Project site, all the while in talks with Alger Delta for power lines for the past year. First Kennecott says they will truck ore for offsite processing, to minimize impacts to the local environment, all the while planning to turn Humbloldt into an ore processing facility. First it's one small footprint mine project, then it's six more immediately after the DEQ/MDEQ permits were granted. Just the tip of the iceberg with what is yet to come from Kennecott and the additional mining companies test drilling in the Upper Midwest.

That's Kennecott for you, laughing behind closed doors at the naivity of the sparsly populated UP folk, and the relative ease they are having in their manipulation of the project process. Kennecott says they are being transparent with the public with their wonderful advisory meetings, then they don't allow the public to comment if it's not pro mine, now that's being a "good community steward". Kennecott says one thing, gets permits in hand, then does another, all the while playing up the benefits to the people of the UP.
Enough with the hippy pow wow activism,, I suggest the 10,000 people that signed the petition against Kennecott Eagle Project put their bodies where their signature is. It's time for big number opposition, a show of the thousands in opposition to this mine, because that opposition most certainly exists. An event at the dome in protest of "Eagle Project" drawing thousands is needed to put some national media attention on this travesty that is about to befall what was once the public tranquil, quiet backwoods wilderness lands of the UP.
These lands are in for some drastic industrial fenced off usage change,folks. Yet Kennecott would have you believe, "you won't even know the mine is there". That's the State of Michigan and OUR elected politicians looking out for "your best interest". If you don't care, then do nothing. It's really up to each one of us, why we live in this area, and how much we care to protect this beautiful place.

I wish TV6 would do a better job showing the pros of the possibility of a spark for the UP economy. Does anyone remember how the UP was 50-75 years ago with mines. It was a booming time! Lets bring it back, but try to be as environmentally friendly as we can.

The defective element that yammer ad nauseam about risking the environment for the sake of perhaps a few poor paying jobs are pathetic! Corporations are interested in ONLY one thing and that is profit. When the integrity and health of the land conflicts with PROFIT,the land and those that treasure it lose. That is the way it has been historically. Foolish invectives and insults will not deter the citizens of the Upper Peninsula when it comes to safe guarding our precious environment. Usually those that yell loudest about "treehuggers" don't have the minimum skills necessary to garner a temporary job with the corporation they so adore!

now what radical liberals! kennecott will clean up someone elses mess! dont say they will destroy the u.p. you sound like a bunch of communists telling us what good for us!

SOME ONE CALL IN ERIN BROCKOVICH CAUSE WE IN TROUBLE IF THIS GOES THROUGH .....

You all are SO excited for these new jobs! But what about our other job? The job to pass things on to our children. The job to not leave them with the mess. You baby boomers are all the same, you get the world on a platter and expect it to all be ok when you are gone. But we are the new generation and we don't want that mess! We want to do our job, and protect these lands from harm. Stop acting like boomer babies and accept that there is more to life than money, stuff, and work. There is family, community, and stewardship.

Kennecott does NOT have a good record. They have been on the EPA's top polluters list, number one in fact! They wont save us from ourselves. If this mine goes through, dozens of others will try and get in, and then this place of honor and pride will be reduced to pot holes over a once great landscape.

Id rather be poor and without work than slightly less poor, with poisons all around me.

Does anyone in the DEQ/DNR care that Kennecott might open this facility? I (the public) didn't get a chance to see and comment on this before all the permits were issued for this mine. This wasn’t mentioned anywhere in their applications. Kennecott also wants to build a private road directly from the mine site (Yellow Dog Plains) to meet up at US41 near the possible future processing facility. I don't remember having a chance to comment on this either. What about the chance for commenting on the new power lines to the plains? I didn’t get a fair chance on that one.

Maybe Kennecott thinks they don’t need permits for the next 6 mines because the DEQ/DNR is too under funded, under staffed, and probably wouldn’t care anyway. Where is the Governor? Does she care that the agencies that are supposed to protect the public’s natural resources are leaving us all behind? Maybe I’ll go fill in a sensitive wetland without a permit or maybe I’ll hunt without a license. I wonder if anyone would care about that.

I can't wait till all the organic food eatting, long haired, jar drinking hippys hit this blog.

The Humboldt mine is nothing but a waste land now. One of the requirements is that Kennecott clean the site up.

thankfully now there will be jobs on the west end, the area of the county that is most offten forgotten.

Wow, did anybody guess? Now we will have an ore refining plant; nickel, which is toxic in small amounts, moves into a the water supply and stays there. IT would behoove anyone who plans to have a job around nickel to research the average lifespan for being around this kind of mining and refining facility. It is not good, and remember, you can't take the money you earn with you. Do we REALLY need jobs that hurt the quality of life so drastically?

Big Bay is the home to many hard working people looking for Hope and Prosparity, this mine could be the Key. I think Kennicot has shown they will be a good steward to our Township lands and provide hope for our young. They followed all the rules jumped through all the hoops and now it,s time to welcome Kennicott to our Township. I hope your Township will too.

its about time we got some new business and jobs in this area.

Good News! Can anyone refresh my memory on how many were employed by Callahan here in the 80's?