Buckhorn Bulletin
Newsletter of the Okanogan Highlands Alliance

November 2006 OHA Appeals Ecology's Permits and SEIS for Proposed Mine Colville Tribes oppose Mining on Buckhorn Aquatic Resources Mitigation Plan Adaptive Management Plan NPDES Comment NEEDED EPA rates DEIS - Environmental Concern September 2006 Ecology Publishes Final Review of Proposed Mine SEIS Fatally Flawed Construction Storm water General Permit Construction Air Quality Permit Groundwater Quality - Kinross Style - Dilution Is The Solution To Pollution Hydrologic Monitoring Plan February 2006 • EPA Blasts DSEIS and EA • WDFW Finds DSEIS Lacking • Tribal Referendum on Mining • OHA's Technical Experts • From the Pit • Water Rights - The Fatal Flaw November 2005 Ecology Publishes Draft Review of Proposed Mine Sample Comments for the DSEIS Water Rights - The Fatal Flaw Truck Traffic - Backfill Gravel What is a healthy Economy? Public Cost Versus Public Interest Noise April 2005 Buckhorn Mountain Give Away - Forest Service Abandons EIS Process Forest Service Requests Comments on Roads and Waste Water Dump Who Should Pay for Roads Who is Kinross Gold Corp Kinross, SEC Disagree November 2004 Draft Supplemental EIS Delayed Until May Mountain of Documents Troubled Water Tailings Expansion Kinross Transportation Issues Appeal of Teck's Pend Oreille Mine February 2004 Scoping for Son of Crown Jewel Kinross Buys Crown Resources Who is Echo Bay? Bill to Eliminate Permit Requirements Teck Cominco's PendOreille Mine Colville Tribes Seek Clean-up US vs Canada Showdown EPA on Right Track at Lake Roosevelt Federal Court Rejects Bush's "Law"  April 2003 Crown Resources New Image Abandoned Mines Conflict of Interest at Interior 1872 Reform Teck Cominco's Pend Oreille Mine CA Requires filling of Open Pits April 2000 PCHB Reverses BMG's Water Rights and Water Quality Certification Brief background of the Water Rights and Water Quality Permit challenges Other Mining News Gold at What Price  The January 2000 Buckorn News OHA Appeals BMG's Water Quality Certification On to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals History repeats in the highlands Legal Issues in May 1999 OHA Appeals BMG's Plan of Operations Rider Unconstitutional - Usurps Executive Authority-Violates the Separation of Powers Water Rights Appeal The Mill site Provision of the 1872 Mining Law On March 25, 1999, a joint letter from the US Department of Interior and the US Department of Agriculture was sent to BMG stating "that the BLM and Forest Service are unable to approve the Plan of Operations for Crown Jewel Mine because the Plan does not comply with the rquirements of the Mining Law of 1872."for full text of March 25, 1999 letter to BMG Slade Gorton, BattleMountainGold and the mining industry politically manuever back room deal to exempt BMG's mine from the mill site provision of the mining law Gorton's Rider