Mine-impact study ‘inadequate’
EPA heaps criticism on Forest Service, Rosemont application
| Posted: Sunday, February 26, 2012
The EPA gave the lowest possible rating to a draft environmental impact statement for the proposed Rosemont copper mine.
It’s one of about a dozen times the Environmental Protection Agency’s San Francisco regional office has done so since 1989.
“Based on the magnitude of the environmental impacts described … and the significant inadequacies of the document, EPA believes the project should not proceed as proposed,” EPA Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld wrote Feb. 21 to the U.S. Forest Service in one of two highly critical letters he wrote about the planned mine south of Tucson.
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