Tagged as: Mining

BLM Plan would Strip Protections from Bears Ears National Monument

submitted to Earth First! Journal KANAB, Utah — As the public comment period closes today on a new management plan for the severely-reduced Bears Ears National Monument, Western Watersheds Project has submitted comments seeking to limit the damage from livestock grazing, mining, oil and gas development, and other activities that

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Blockade Halts Work at Iron Ore Mine on Labrador-Quebec Border

CBC News, August 1, 2018 Workers at Tata Steel Minerals’ Schefferville mine, near the Labrador-Quebec border, have been sent home after a blockade was set up by members of a local First Nations community. The blockade, set up Thursday night by the Innu community of Matimekush-Lac-John, is on the access

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