Tag: Iron County

The Iron County board decided last night to table a vote on recommendations from their forestry committee to evict LCO tribal members and their allies from the Harvest and Education Camp located at the edge of Gogebic Taconite’s proposed mine site.  The board referred the issue back to the Forestry Committee,…

Iron County attorney Tony Stella has some very interesting posts on his website, www.stellareport.com, regarding the history and composition of the current Iron County Mining Impact Committee. According to Stella the committee originally appointed by the Iron County board of supervisors, which was made up of a cross section of…

From the tone of his remarks in yesterday’s Wisconsin State Journal , it sounds as though Iron County district attorney Marty Lipske wants to prosecute everyone who’s broken the law in the ongoing Gogebic Taconite, (GTAC) iron mine controversy. Everyone? Sounding as much like a GTAC spokesperson as an elected DA, Lipske stated that the conduct of the protesters…