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Category Archives: Bald Mountain Aroostook Maine
Maine’s Statute & It’s Draft Implementing Rules Score Poorly on Catastrophic Failure Risk Assessment
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 14, 2016 1333 EST Contact lindsaynewlandbowker@gmail.com 207 367 5145 RISK OF FAILURE ASSESSMENT OF MAINE MINING STATUTE AND DRAFT IMPLEMENTING RULES Lindsay Newland Bowker, CPCU ARM, Environmental Risk Manager Risk of Catastrophic Failure analysis of … Continue reading →
Posted in Analysis TSF Failures, Bald Mountain Aroostook Maine, BEP, Bowker Associates Science & Research In The Public Interest, Catastrophic Tailings Failures, Causes Of Catastrophic Tailings Dam Failures, Center For Science In Public Participation, CSP2, CU-Arsenic Standards For Concentrates, David M. Chambers, Environmental Risk Management, Global Capital Squeeze In Mining, History of Mining In Maine, Imperial Metals, lacustrine mine waste disposal, Maine Mining Law, Maine Mining Regulations, Maine Mining Rules, Maine Mining Statute, Metallic Mining Risk Management, Mine Feasibility, Mine Risk Management, Mining Economics, mining environmental risk management, Mining Financial Feasibility, Mining In Maine, Mining Regulation, Mining Risk Management, Uncategorized
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JSC ENR & MAINE LEGISLATIVE LEADERSHIP PUSHING AHEAD ON HEARING OF RE SUBMITTED MINING RULE THOUGH IT HAS NO LEGAL STATUS BEFORE THE LEGISLATURE
Maine’s lobbyist/ extraction industry dictated mining rules were rejected by majority vote of the Maine legislature last term. In the interim new elections changed the party balance in the senate and reduced the majority in the house of its legislature. Without … Continue reading →
Posted in Bald Mountain Aroostook Maine, Bowker Associates Science & Research In The Public Interest, JD Irving, John Martin Maine Legisilature, LD146127th Maine Legislature, LD1750 Maine 126th Legislature, Lindsay Newland Bowker, Maine Mining Law, Maine Mining Rules, Mining In Maine, Mining Risk Management, Ralph Chapman, Responsible Mining
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Tagged Christoper Roach Portland Maine, John Martin Eagle Lake Maine, LD146 Maine Mining Rules, LD750 Maine Mining Rules, mining risk management, PL2011 c.653 Maine Statutes, Ralph Chapman Brooksville Maine, Respomsble Mining
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Historic Rejecton Of Maine DEP’s Extraction Industry Oriented Rules Part of National Push For Responsible
Maine joins Minnesota and Alaska in pushing back against the idea that mining is such a valuable and essential economic endeavor that it warrants lower levels of protection for natural resources than apply to other industries. LD1772 rejected the rules … Continue reading →
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Tagged corportocracy, JD Irving, maine legislature rejects mining rules, metallic mining, mining risk management, sulfide open pit mining
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MOUNTAIN X: WOULD YOU ISSUE A PERMIT TO THIS MINE
A Clinical Reassessment of Bald Mountain, Aroostook County Maine February 28th, 2014 LD 1772 A Resolution to Reject Maine’s Draft Mining Rules Dear Co-Chairs Boyle and Welsh & Members of the Joint Standing Committee On Environment & Natural Resources: I … Continue reading →
Posted in Bald Mountain Aroostook Maine, BEP, Black Hawk Mining Co., Boliden, Bowker Associates, Bowker Associates Science & Research In The Public Interest, Center For Science in Citizen Participation, David Chambers, Environmental Risk Management, GO NO-GO Technical Framework, LD1772 126th Maine Legislature, Lindsay Newland Bowker, Maine Mining Regulations, Maine Mining Statute, massive sulfide risk management, Mining Regulation, politics of mining, volcanogenic massive sulfide
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Tagged Bald Mountain, Boliden, David Chambers, Dr. Andrew Roberston, fatal flaw analysis, Go-No Go Criteria For Mining Assessment, JD Irving, metallic mining, mining risk assessment, Open-pit mining, politics of mining, Risk based mining policy, sulfide open pit mining, the bannaism of maine
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Historic Legislative Rejection of Mining Rule Expected
It seems there is political will to reject Maine’s Mining rules but a glitch in the mining statute requires some housekeeping and most likely also suspension of the 1991 rules until the legislature has rules it can approve. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw0jCpuVRzgEQWcyTjQ3LWMxa2xGWmQwMXowS2F2d0hjU2Fj/edit?usp=sharing It … Continue reading →
Posted in Bald Mountain Aroostook Maine, bannaism of maine, BEP, Black Hawk Mining Co., block caving, Boliden, Bowker Associates, Bowker Associates Science & Research In The Public Interest, Callahan Mine Superfund Site, Center For Science in Citizen Participation, Charles Roy Fitzgerald, David Chambers, electrowinning, Environmental Risk Management, GO NO-GO Technical Framework, History of Mining In Maine, in situ leaching, in situ leaching prohibition, ITRC, JD Irving, LD1772 126th Maine Legislature, Lindsay Newland Bowker, LUPC, Maine Mining Regulations, maine mining rule rejection, Maine Mining Statute, massive sulfide risk management, Metallic Mining, Mining Regulation, Perpetual Treatment Policy, politics of mining, Ralph Chapman, Science for Sale, Troy Jackson
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A NEW STATUTORY & REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR RESPONSIBLE SULFIDE MINING: SHOULD THIS MINE BE BUILT?
In a work commissioned to guide Maine’s mining policy Dr. David Chambers, a recognized leader in building international policy for responsible mining, has pointed to a fatal flaw in the fabric of sulfide mining oversight in the U.S.: no one has … Continue reading →
Posted in Bald Mountain Aroostook Maine, Bowker Associates, Bowker Associates Science & Research In The Public Interest, Center For Science In Public Participation, David Chambers, Environmental Risk Management, GO NO-GO Technical Framework, Go NO-GO Zones, Lindsay Newland Bowker, Maine Mining Regulations, Maine Mining Statute, massive sulfide risk management, Metallic Mining, Mining Regulation, Mt. Polley, Perpetual Treatment Policy, politics of mining, Tailings Impoundments, volcanogenic massive sulfide
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Tagged Bowker Associates, David Chambers, Dr. Andrew Robertson, Framework For Responsble Mining, greenwashing, JD Irving, metallic mining, Mt Polley, Open-pit mining, Perpetual Treatment of Sulfide Mines, Shannon Shaw, sulfide open pit mining, susustainable sulfide mining, the bannaism of maine, VMS Risk Assessment
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Global Expert to Reassess Environmental Risks of Mining At Bald Mountain/ Address Limits of Modern Technology
Carr Pond “Mining Affected Area” by Craig Terrell Contact: Lindsay Newland Bowker, Environmental Risk Manager November 12, 2013 207-367 5145 lindsaynewlandbowker@gmail.com Globally respected Geo-Physicist Dr. David Chambers has been retained to re assess 20 years of scientific data on the … Continue reading →
Posted in Bald Mountain Aroostook Maine, Black Hawk Mining Co., Boliden, Bowker Associates, Bowker Associates Science & Research In The Public Interest, Center For Science in Citizen Participation, David Chambers, Environmental Risk Management, JD Irving, John Seal USGS, JS Cummings, Lindsay Newland Bowker, Maine Mining Regulations, Maine Mining Statute, massive sulfide risk management, Metallic Mining, Mining Regulation, Robert Seal USGS, volcanogenic massive sulfide
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JOBS AT BALD MOUNTAIN NEVER THERE:Bowker Associates Provided Saviello, Key Agency Officials & Key Legislators With Hard Evidence in August 2013
Senator Tom Saviello <drtom16@hotmail.com> cc: Joan Welsh <joanwelsh08@gmail.com>, Ed Mazurek <EdMazurek1@aol.com>, “Heather Parent, Director Policy, Office of the Commissione , Maine DEP” <heather.parent@maine.gov>, “Horn-Olsen, Samantha” <Samantha.Horn-Olsen@maine.gov>, Ralph Chapman <chapmanHD37@gmail.com>, Ben Chipman <votechipman@gmail.com>, Emily Cain <emily.cain@gmail.com>, Katherine Cassidy <katherine.cassidy@gmail.com>, Jeff McCabe <jeffmccabe4me@gmail.com>, … Continue reading →
Posted in Bald Mountain Aroostook Maine, bangor daily news, BEP, Black Hawk Mining Co., Boliden, Callahan Mine Brooksville Maine, Callahan Mine History, Callahan Mine Superfund Site, corporatocracy, Heather Parent, History of Mining In Maine, JD Irving, JS Cummings, Maine Mining Regulations, Maine Mining Statute, massive sulfide risk management, Mining Regulation, plutonomy, politics of mining, portland press herald, volcanogenic massive sulfide
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Tagged Bald Mountain, Ben Chipman, Callahan Mine Brooksville Maine, Callahan Mine Superfund Site, corportocracy, Emily Cain, greenwashing, JD Irving, metallic mining, Ralph Chapman, sulfide open pit mining, the bannaism of maine, Tom Saviello
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Errors & Ommissions Confusions & Vagaries In Just the first 3 sections of the Mining Rule
The following is not final/edited comment on the Maine mining rule and addresses just a few examples in just the first 3 sections, Applicability, Prohibitions. and Definitions . It is not even complete for “definitions”. All is not well between … Continue reading →
Posted in Bald Mountain Aroostook Maine, BEP, block caving, block caving prohibition, block caving risk management, block caving subsidence, electrowinning, History of Mining In Maine, in situ leaching, in situ leaching prohibition, Maine Mining Regulations, Maine Mining Statute, massive sulfide risk management, Metallic Mining, mining definitions, Mining Regulation, volcanogenic massive sulfide
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Tagged overburden definition, regolith, Underground mining (hard rock)
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WORD VERSION OF MAINE’S MINING RULE
Here is a word version of Maine’s mining rule which makes it much easier to review and comment using the search features of word https://docs.google.com/file/d/18EBjibFvkTBbdSLV6dvrP2iXKMCe2ivh_USb287GbBZrW-iokIRZS80aaMTb/edit?usp=sharing. The hearing before BEP is presently scheduled for October 17th, 9am, Augusta Civic center. Further … Continue reading →