Blue Lead’s Formal Appeal to BOS Contains Incorrect Statements
On June 7th Blue Lead Mine LLC formally appealed to the Nevada County Board of Supervisors to reverse the Planning Commission’s May 27th decision denying the vested right to mine.
The only reason that this matter dragged on for months before the Planning Commission and is now in consideration on appeal before the Board of Supervisors is that Mr. Chadwick, [...]
Think Baby Think
Op-Ed by Bob Bogart
Can we locals learn anything from the recent disastrous events in the extraction industries?
Or does “It’ll never happen here” — and — “Jobs at any cost” pervade all thinking?
The recent mine explosion in West Virginia coal country killed 29 miners and now the BP oil rig blowout killed 11 workers and continues [...]