MARQUETTE - Opponents of Kennecott's Eagle Mine in northern Marquette County are questioning the process Michigan Department of Environmental Quality officials used to reach final approval Thursday for the project.
"The DEQ - as party to a state of Michigan Administrative Contested Case process - just unilaterally bypassed both the legal process and Administrative Law Judge (Richard) Patterson in making a sweeping declaration and finding of law," said Cynthia Pryor, sulfide mining campaign director for the Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve.
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