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Recent News Articles and Letters – 2018

December 20, 2018 By Lisa Froelich Leave a Comment

Letter: Mine offers short-term gain
https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/local-issues/letter-mine-offers-short-term-gain/article_cdc1c614-046f-11e9-b14a-5be852dfae12.html
Arizona Daily Star Letter to the Editor by Sandra Katz
December 20, 2018

Letter: Stop The Rosemont Mine!
https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/local-issues/letter-stop-the-rosemont-mine/article_eef9c4c2-046e-11e9-87d1-efe73107e059.html
Arizona Daily Star Letter to the Editor by Waid Reynolds
December 20, 2018

Letter: Mine would bring great damage, little benefit
https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/local-issues/letter-mine-would-bring-great-damage-little-benefit/article_547c4e78-03b1-11e9-80d2-0f0096fa23d9.html
Arizona Daily Star Letter to the Editor by Peter Steere
December 19, 2018

Former Rosemont lobbyist set to become acting Interior Secretary
https://www.rosemontminetruth.com/former-rosemont-lobbyist-set-to-become-acting-interior-secretary/
Rosemont Mine Truth
December 17. 2018

Rollback of federal water rule would have major impacts in Tucson area
https://tucson.com/news/local/rollback-of-federal-water-rule-would-have-major-impacts-in/article_2ba8c53e-590a-5776-9830-33ee8c3f0f54.html
Tony Davis, Arizona Daily Star
December 11, 2018

Letter: Little hope on Rosemont
https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/local-issues/letter-little-hope-on-rosemont/article_542c7166-fcd9-11e8-8d51-0faafb46e600.html
Arizona Daily Star Letter to the Editor by Richard Govern
December 10, 2018

Manuel and Elías: Rosemont mine would bring devastation to Southern Arizona
https://tucson.com/opinion/local/manuel-and-el-as-rosemont-mine-would-bring-devastation-to/article_d55e8126-206d-5e11-bb28-2d1d60d674a8.html
Special to the Arizona Daily Star by Edward Manuel and Richard Elias
December 9, 2018

Local efforts look at replenishing groundwater aquifer
https://www.gvnews.com/news/local-efforts-look-at-replenishing-groundwater-aquifer/article_ab7d3a5e-fb26-11e8-bc61-b7f30142a28b.html
David J. Del Grande, Green Valley news
December 8, 2018

Pima County ratchets up opposition to Rosemont Mine as Army Corps Clean Water Act permitting decision looms
https://www.rosemontminetruth.com/pima-county-ratchets-up-opposition-to-rosemont-mine-as-army-corps-clean-water-act-permitting-decision-looms/
Rosemont Mine Truth
November 13, 2018

Letter: The Rosemont Mine is coming
https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/local-issues/letter-the-rosemont-mine-is-coming/article_c65631ee-de04-11e8-bf00-6f78f0a36a7a.html
Arizona Daily Star Letter to the Editor by Diane Stephenson
November 1, 2018

Letter: Editorial perspective has gone off the rails
https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/politics-local/letter-editorial-perspective-has-gone-off-the-rails/article_09c209bc-dc66-11e8-b490-0ffbdb8657b9.html
Arizona Daily Star Letter to the Editor by Peggy Hendrickson
October 30, 2018

Letter: The Star’s missteps
https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/politics-local/letter-the-star-s-missteps/article_bba6b152-d723-11e8-884c-e3a45d7829e0.html
Arizona Daily Star Letter to the Editor by Richard Demers
October 23, 2018

Letter: No Rosemont Mine
https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/local-issues/letter-no-rosemont-mine/article_9508c4ec-d258-11e8-92bb-174412689cc8.html
Arizona Daily Star Letter to the Editor by Sam Kalter
October 17, 2018

Letter: Rosemont Mine Op-ed
https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/local-issues/letter-rosemont-mine-op-ed/article_7a02b4bc-d0ca-11e8-9f08-93014535e7cd.html
Arizona Daily Star Letter to the Editor by Ihor Kunasz
October 15, 2018

Robert Vint: Environmental degradation caused by Rosemont would last forever
https://tucson.com/opinion/local/robert-vint-environmental-degradation-caused-by-rosemont-would-last-forever/article_0740549f-66a6-51d1-ae2d-953e0ab3a250.html
Robert Vint Special to the Arizona Daily Star
October 12, 2018

Range Wars – A copper rush sparks last-ditch battles for Arizona’s soul
https://harpers.org/archive/2018/09/copper-mining-in-arizona-silver-bell-mine-morenci-bhp-ascaro-apache-land/2/
Samuel James (Artist), Mort Rosenblum, Harper’s Magazine
September 2018 issue
Letter: Rosemont’s too small to matter
https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/local-issues/letter-rosemont-s-too-small-to-matter/article_6c37203a-b463-11e8-8c6b-bf4af9fbb3d9.html
Arizona Daily Star Letter to the editor by Scott Dreisbach
September 9, 2018
Letter: Tucson’s blood? What about ours?
https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/local-issues/letter-tucson-s-blood-what-about-ours/article_1df7cb6c-aaf0-11e8-83c5-cb1caf07adae.html
Arizona Daily Star Letter to the editor by Anthony Strungis
August 28, 2018
Letter: Chamber is not an independent actor
https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/local-issues/letter-chamber-is-not-an-independent-actor/article_48b92a96-aaf8-11e8-b447-13601ba3a11e.html
Arizona Daily Star Letter to the editor by John McLean
August 28, 2018
Letter: Chamber overstates Rosemont benefit
https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/local-issues/letter-chamber-overstates-rosemont-benefit/article_bc295356-aaef-11e8-9eed-9b80baaf0ff6.html
Arizona Daily Star Letter to the editor by Todd Smyth
August 28, 2018
Letter: Mining ‘legacy’ is not what it seems
https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/local-issues/letter-mining-legacy-is-not-what-it-seems/article_51899a5c-ab07-11e8-85ac-0344cc25e4b5.html
Arizona Daily Star Letter to the editor by John Hughes
August 28, 2018
Letter: Questioning Rosemont is good policy
https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/local-issues/letter-questioning-rosemont-is-good-policy/article_847ab5e4-aaef-11e8-bd0c-23d0d55068bd.html
Arizona Daily Star Letter to the editor by Peter Coston
August 28, 2018
Letter: No to Rosemont
https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/local-issues/letter-no-to-rosemont/article_c06ce2b2-ab11-11e8-aa79-2764d7bab51c.html
Arizona Daily Star Letter to the editor by Geoffrey Bland
August 28, 2018
Letter: Tucson is much more than a mining town
https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/local-issues/letter-tucson-is-much-more-than-a-mining-town/article_f97a24ee-ab15-11e8-97bf-93a509652163.html
Arizona Daily Star Letter to the editor by Roger Barthelson
August 28, 2018
Letter: Go ahead with Rosemont
https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/local-issues/letter-go-ahead-with-rosemont/article_f818f704-ab12-11e8-b8fc-1f3a848007d0.html
Arizona Daily Star Letter to the editor by Gary Hecksel
August 28, 2018
Harper’s turns its sharp eye on Rosemont and Resolution mines
http://www.rosemontminetruth.com/harpers-turns-its-sharp-eye-on-rosemont-and-resolution-mines/
Rosemont Mine Truth
August 27, 2018
Letter: Rosemont Mine would hurt our region
https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/local-issues/letter-rosemont-mine-would-hurt-our-region/article_7efe2f6c-aa25-11e8-b694-c7b9499db418.html
Arizona Daily Star Letter to the editor by Kathy Altman
August 27, 2018
Head of Tucson Chamber: With mining in city’s blood, it’s time to move ahead with Rosemont
https://tucson.com/opinion/local/amber-smith-it-s-time-to-move-forward-stop-fighting/article_ae6239a6-314d-53e7-84ca-8669f86a40c7.html
Amber Smith Special to the Arizona Daily Star
August 27, 2018
Letter: Rosemont mine not worth the cost
https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/local-issues/letter-rosemont-mine-not-worth-the-cost/article_817d76a6-a7fc-11e8-bb53-972b24e69bc0.html
Arizona Daily Star Letter to the editor by Daryl Alderson
August 24, 2018
After 11 years, legal, bureaucratic battles over Rosemont Mine continue
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2018/08/14/after-11-years-legal-bureaucratic-battles-over-rosemont-mine-continue/
Sarabeth Henne, Cronkite News
August 14, 2018
Hudbay stock falls below $5 a share for first time in 14 months
http://www.rosemontminetruth.com/hudbay-stock-falls-below-5-a-share-for-first-time-in-14-months/
Rosemont Mine Truth
August 3, 2018

Opinion: Arizonans should demand responsible mining
https://tucson.com/opinion/local/opinion-arizonans-should-demand-responsible-mining/article_4cc2cd2f-f0e9-52a1-b839-79e33c10e746.html
Melanie Lippert and Stephen Nash Special to the Arizona Daily Star
July 17, 2018
Hudbay stock hits one year low as copper prices slump
http://www.rosemontminetruth.com/hudbay-stock-hits-one-year-low-as-copper-prices-slump/
Rosemont Mine Truth
July 16, 2018
Conservationists: The death of the jaguar Yo’oko is a call to action
https://tucson.com/opinion/local/conservationists-the-death-of-the-jaguar-yo-oko-a-call/article_d8b946da-5674-5f17-b2b6-bce82ee725d9.html
Randy Serraglio, Louise Misztal and Diana Hadley Special to the Arizona Daily Star
July 8, 2018
Former Rosemont Owner poised to gross $400 million on Arizona Mining Inc. sale
http://www.rosemontminetruth.com/former-rosemont-owner-poised-to-gross-400-million-on-arizona-mining-inc-sale/
Rosemont Mine Truth
June 29, 2018
Proposed state stream rule changes could help Rosemont Mine
http://www.rosemontminetruth.com/proposed-state-stream-rule-changes-could-help-rosemont-mine/
Rosemont Mine Truth
May 7, 2018

Hudbay confronted over its conflicts with indigenous people
http://www.rosemontminetruth.com/hudbay-confronted-over-its-conflicts-with-indigenous-people/
Rosemont Mine Truth
May 22, 2018

Audubon Society urges feds to reject Rosemont Mine permit
http://www.rosemontminetruth.com/audubon-society-urges-feds-to-reject-rosemont-mine-permit/
Rosemont Mine Truth
May 21, 2018

Letter: Rosemont mine
https://www.gvnews.com/opinion/rosemont-mine/article_5c06c7da-58a4-11e8-97af-b72b63114a85.html
Green Valley News Letter to the Editor by Laurie Jurs, Green Valley
May 16, 2018

A murder in Guatemala raises questions of intimidation
http://www.rosemontminetruth.com/a-murder-in-guatemala-raises-questions-of-intimidation/
Rosemont Mine Truth
April 30, 2018

Three Arizona tribes file federal law suit against U.S. Forest Service seeking to block Hudbay’s Rosemont Copper Mine
http://www.rosemontminetruth.com/three-arizona-tribes-file-federal-law-suit-against-u-s-forest-service-seeking-to-block-hudbays-rosemont-copper-mine/
Rosemont Mine Truth
April 16, 2018

Tribes sue feds over Rosemont Mine, citing ‘irreversible’ damage to sacred sites
http://tucson.com/news/local/tribes-sue-feds-over-rosemont-mine-citing-irreversible-damage-to/article_fd114e72-4680-51fa-b8ca-ad0a6f911d0d.html
Tony Davis, Arizona Daily Star
April 14, 2018

Arizona Tribes Seek to Halt Copper Mine on Sacred Lands
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/arizona/articles/2018-04-13/arizona-tribes-seek-to-halt-copper-mine-on-sacred-lands
Associated Press
April 13, 2018

Tohono O’odham, Pascua Yaqui, Hopi Sue to Stop Rosemont Mine
https://news.azpm.org/p/news-topical-nature/2018/4/12/127451-tohono-oodham-pascua-yaqui-hopi-sue-to-stop-rosemont-mine/
Christopher Conover, AZPM
April 12, 2018

Hudbay projects 2022 as the “hypothetical” year for its embattled Rosemont project to begin copper production
http://www.rosemontminetruth.com/hudbay-projects-2022-as-the-hypothetical-year-for-its-embattled-rosemont-project-to-begin-copper-production/
Rosemont Mine Truth
February 1, 2018

Rosemont Mine ready to start construction next year if final permit OK’ed
http://tucson.com/news/local/rosemont-mine-ready-to-start-construction-next-year-if-final/article_9e26e0ad-05da-50eb-8811-3452ac53503d.html
Tony Davis, Arizona Daily Star
January 27, 2018

The EPA concludes Rosemont Copper Mine fails to meet regulatory requirements needed for Clean Water Act permit
http://www.rosemontminetruth.com/the-epa-concludes-rosemont-copper-mine-fails-to-meet-regulatory-requirements-needed-for-clean-water-act-permit/
Rosemont Mine Truth
January 12, 2018

EPA attacks Rosemont Mine’s newest land restoration plan
http://tucson.com/news/local/epa-attacks-rosemont-mine-s-newest-land-restoration-plan/article_b2752ee1-b27d-5a15-858f-659781c0975e.html
Tony Davis, Arizona Daily Star
January 7, 2018

Rosemont Mine owner: No mitigation land available in Cienega Creek watershed
http://tucson.com/news/local/rosemont-mine-owner-no-mitigation-land-available-in-cienega-creek/article_33e30950-0ae3-595d-9b0f-0883e76e985c.html
Tony Davis, Arizona Daily Star
January 6, 2018

Media Release: Key elements of Rosemont water mitigation plan “commonly fail”
http://www.scenicsantaritas.org/water/media-release-key-elements-of-rosemont-water-mitigation-plan-commonly-fail/
Scenicsantaritas.org
January 5, 2018

Expert: Hudbay’s environmental mitigation plan needed for key federal permit to build $1.9 billion Rosemont mine is likely to fail
http://www.rosemontminetruth.com/expert-hudbays-environmental-mitigation-plan-needed-for-key-federal-permit-to-build-1-9-billion-rosemont-mine-is-likely-to-fail/
Rosemont Mine Truth
January 5, 2018

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