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Mine waste disposal sets precedent for new way to pollute Alaska’s waters

Clean Water Act preserved as Ninth Circuit protects lake from mine tailings

Agency favors dry land disposal method for mine tailings

Argument that Kensington Mine, AK waste should not be classified as fill and violates the Clean Water Act.

Federal court says Army Corps violated Act by letting mine kill Alaska lake

Court order of 8/24/2006 enjoining US Army Corps, US Forest Service and Coeur Alaska from further construction activities relating to the use of Lower Slate Lake as a disposal site for mine tailings

In issuing a permit for a gold mine, the Army Corps of Engineers considered the mine’s chemically processed, toxic mine waste to be “fill material” under the Clean Water Act, bypassing strict EPA limits for this type of pollution. As a result, millions of tons of mine waste will be dumped into a pristine sub-alpine…

Allows other mining activities to proceed

Will mining company be allowed to bury lake in wastes?

Decision bodes ill for other American lakes, invites Administrative or Congressional fix

Federal court says Army Corps violated Act by letting mine kill Alaska lake

Court decision will clarify whether mining companies may bury clean lakes, rivers and streams with mine tailings

Is toxic water allowed by Clean Water Act?

EPA and Obama can still stop destruction of lake

High court clears way for mining company to destroy Alaskan lake

Earthjustice press secretary Raviya Ismail was at today’s (Jan. 12) U.S. Supreme Court hearing on whether the Clean Water Act allows Coeur Alaska’s Kensington Mine to fill Lower Slate Lake in Alaska with mining waste – killing all aquatic life. Earthjustice attorney Tom Waldo argued to protect the lake. The high court decision, expected by…

Alaskan mining company seeks permit to destroy lake with mine waste