Green Options » kensington mine http://greenoptions.com/tag/kensington-mine Posts tagged 'kensington mine' Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:38:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Supreme Court to Hear Major Lawsuit Over Mining Waste http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/01/12/supreme-court-to-hear-major-lawsuit-over-mining-waste/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/01/12/supreme-court-to-hear-major-lawsuit-over-mining-waste/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:38:04 +0000 Alex Felsinger http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/01/12/supreme-court-to-hear-major-lawsuit-over-mining-waste/

After years of appeals and court battles, an unprecedented case over the federal Clean Water Act will face the Supreme Court on Monday.

Local environmentalists organized against a plan by a gold mine nearby Juneau, Alaska to dump mining waste and rubble into a nearby lake. While the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council lost the original lawsuit to stop the plan in 2006, they later won the appeal with the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Supreme Court now must decide whether mines should be prevented from storing their waste in water bodies, as specified in the Clean Water Act. Alaska issued a permit to the mine allowing it to dump waste in the lake, but environmentalists pointed out the discrepancy.

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