http://www.fisheries.org/idaho/Fishes%20of%20Idaho/bull_trout.htm
Posted on 03/30/2005 9:33:25 PM PST by NormsRevenge
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - A judge sidelined a copper and silver mine criticized by environmentalists and swank jeweler Tiffany, saying the plan was approved without consideration of the possible harm to imperiled grizzly bears and bull trout.
Judge Donald Molloy said the Fish and Wildlife Service inadequately weighed the possible effects of the mining proposal on wildlife that fall under the protection of the federal Endangered Species Act.
Revett Silver Co. has proposed developing the Rock Creek mine on the edge of the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness Area in northwestern Montana.
Environmentalists praised the Monday ruling.
"It's a huge victory for extremely imperiled wildlife and for a lot of folks in northwest Montana who care about clean water and having unspoiled wilderness in the Cabinet Mountains, and moved there for those reasons," said Tim Preso of Earthjustice, an environmental coalition.
A call seeking comment on the court decision was not returned by William Orchow, president of Spokane, Wash.-based Revett.
The administration of Gov. Brian Schweitzer hasn't studied the ruling and will not comment yet, governor's spokeswoman Sarah Elliott said late Wednesday.
In a full-page advertisement last year in The Washington Post, Tiffany & Co. demanded the federal government reject the mine and change the nation's nearly 135-year-old mining law.
"It is by no means the first time that we have communicated with appropriate government officials about our desire to see precious metals and gemstones extracted in environmentally and socially responsible ways," the company said at the time. "Our record on that score goes back nearly a decade."
Judge Donald Molloy
Clinton appointee, 1996
Earthjustice.. http://www.earthjustice.org/
formerly known as the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund.
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Black Robe Fever...
Jackasses. This is why, despite the fact that the US has expansive precious metal reserves, all the mines are moving to South America. It doesn't save the environment, it just moves the destruction and jobs to another country.
Grizzlies and bull trout are going to put Montanans on the endangered species list.
http://www.fisheries.org/idaho/Fishes%20of%20Idaho/bull_trout.htm
The Grizzly bear is a threat to the bull troat!
The fact is that the US has expansive precious metal reserves, and the mining companies are all foreign owned.
LOLLOFLHHO
little ole lady laying on the floor laughing her hiney off
Ir another capitalist eliminating competition... preemptively. Or
They are suppressing production, not competition. The grizzlies and bull trout have good lobbiest.
True, a good portion of the big ones are Canadian. However, most are also publicly traded companies, so they are no more "foreign owned" than most US based publicly traded companies.
Another robed tyrant.
More judicial activism. Is there anything they haven't hijacked?
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