In the Spotlight
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Rules have changed, miners say; neighbors, environmentalists wary |
October 20, 2011. RGJ: "http://www.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011110210345"
Mining has a conflicted history in Mason Valley. While it has provided steady work from 1915 to 1978, the land was left with an open scar after mining operations ceased--the massive Yerington pit. It's about a mile long, 800 feet deep and half full of water. |
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The new copper run: Yerington mining plans could bring hundreds of jobs |
October 17, 2011. RGJ: "http://www.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011110160377"
Yerington looks a little rough around the edges. The small city with a population of about 3,000, the Lyon County sister city to Fernley, could be the poster-child town of rural Nevada for the state's ongoing recession, considered the worst in state history. |
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October 06, 2011. Associated Press: "Tribe battles BLM over Nev. gold mine in US court"
RENO, Nev. — Lawyers for environmentalists and several Nevada tribes urged a federal judge Thursday to keep in place restrictions from a 2009 court order that blocks the expansion of a gold mine at the base of a mountain that some Western Shoshone consider sacred. |
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February 15, 2011. Associated Press: "Toxic Nevada mine lawsuit seeks $5M from BP, ARCO"
RENO, Nev. -- Neighbors of a toxic mine in northern Nevada have filed a class-action lawsuit against BP America and Atlantic Richfield Co. accusing them of intentionally and negligently concealing the extent of the contamination leaking off the abandoned site for decades. |
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Press Release on Ruby Pipeline lawsuit from GBRW, Sierra Club, and Defenders of Wildlife |
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Monday September 13, 2010
Our coalition, opposing the route of the Ruby Pipeline, files suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit against the U.S. BLM, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Read our Press Release Here! Also, read our 9th Circuit petition here!
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