An online special today: The State Mining Board has postponed tomorrow’s meeting on Eagle Mountain. Another meeting tomorrow is available to Eagle Mining Ventures opponents. Go to this headline in today’s news at www.z1077fm.com for more information.
The meeting of the State Mining and Geology Board that was scheduled for October 1 in Palm Desert, has been cancelled, due to a lack of a quorum. That word comes from Donna Charpied, Executive Director of the Desert Protection Society. The Society had planned to marshal speakers against what it regards as questionable practices by public officials with regard to oversight of the Eagle Mountain mine. Charpied said that Society representatives will attend a Bureau of Land Management scoping meeting for a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement Eagle Mountain land exchange. The EIS was originally issued in 1997, when the Eagle Mountain landfill was still a possibility. In 2010, a federal court found deficiencies in the EIS. In 2011, the land swap that enabled the landfill project was set aside. In 2013, the project died when the sanitation districts that might have participated in it, walked away from it. The BLM is proceeding with fixing up the EIS deficiencies related to a project that no longer exists. There are two public scoping meetings for the effort on October 1, at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. at BLM Palm Springs-South Coast Field Office, located at 1201 Bird Center Drive in Palm Springs.
ON-LINE SPECIAL: MINING BOARD POSTPONED, OTHER FORUM TOMORROW
