Protect the Porkies, Highland Copper respond to $50M Copperwood Mine grant
IRONWOOD — The advocacy group Protect the Porkies has made a statement regarding the $50 million grant Highland Copper recently received from the Michigan Strategic Fund: “On (Tuesday), the Michigan Strategic Fund — a board of unelected businesspeople — voted to approve the use of 50 million taxpayer dollars to advance the Copperwood Mine,” read their statement. “The funding had been three times denied through plain old democracy, so this fourth time the MSF employed a deceptive backdoor strategy to bypass votes from elected officials by allocating left-over funds from ...