GTac Wants Wider Test Drilling Permission
From the DNR:
DNR receives exploratory drilling application from Gogebic Taconite
The Department of Natural Resources has received an exploration license application from Gogebic Taconite, LLC, for activities related to the Penokee/Gogebic deposit located in Ashland and Iron counties.
The company is proposing to drill fifteen exploratory drillholes at the site. Gogebic Taconite had applied for and received an exploration license in the spring of 2013, and drilled eight exploration drillholes last summer.
According to Ann Coakley, DNR Waste and Materials Management Program director, the agency will review and make a decision regarding the application within 10 business days, as required under the state’s iron mining law.
The application is available for viewing on DNR’s web page about the project, on the "Exploration licenses" tab.
"Pete Rasmussen of the Penokee Hills Education Project questions why GTAC needs to do the additional drilling. He says the company has decades of information about the rock content, and may just be using a new state law to keep others away from the site.
ReplyDelete“To me, what it really probably is more about than anything is closing all of that land off to the public and keeping scientists out, he says."
(Chuck Quirmbach, Wisconsin Public Radio, 1/03/14)