Midwest Environmental Advocates, a Madison-based public interest law firm, is urging turnout at two public hearings at the Rusk County Courthouse May 16th and 17th to urge continuing DNR-mandated cleanup and restoration at the now-closed Ladysmith Mine.

These are time and dates:

May 16th (2 PM to 5 PM, and again beginning at 6:30 PM, and May 17th (beginning at 8:30 AM).

More details here.

April 17 – The State of Wisconsin Division of Hearings and
Appeals will hold a prehearing conference on the matter of the
application of Flambeau Mining Company for issuance of a Certificate of
Completion of Reclamation at 1 p.m., in the County Board Room of the
Rusk County Courthouse, 311 Miner Ave., Ladysmith.

The purpose
of the prehearing conference will be to identify all parties to the
proceeding, to simplify the issues which will ultimately be contested
at the hearing and to establish appropriate schedules for the
submission of documentary evidence and for prehearing discovery. No
testimony will be heard at the prehearing conference; however, a date
will be set for the hearing on the merits at the conference. The Matter
Flambeau Mining Company filed a Petition for Issuance of a Certificate
of Completion (COC) of Reclamation on Jan. 11, 2007.

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