Hearing on Copper Flat Mine, VIII: Does NMCC intend to mine?
We calculate whether NMCC has enough water to mine Copper Flat in the manner proposed in its application to mine. It does not. Why, then, has NMCC applied for a mining permit?
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Nolan Winkler’s new works are heartbreakingly good
AI Overview defines synesthesia as "a neurological condition where a trigger in one sense or concept causes an involuntary experience in another. There are dozens of distinct types, categorized by the trigger (inducer) and the resulting experience (concurrent)." Get ready to be triggered by Nolan Winkler's new works.
Hearing on Copper Flat Mine, VII: Talking about jobs on Labor Day
What was it like to work at Copper Flat Mine in 1982? Will that be what working at Copper Flat Mine will be like if the mine were reopened? This is a Labor Day meditation on working at the mine.
Hearing on Copper Flat Mine, VI: Mining and the water crisis
We in Sierra County are living in, and at long last, beginning to understand that we live day to day in a water crisis. What is the justification for allowing someone to withdraw and evaporate a million gallons of groundwater a day during that social and economic crisis?
Hearing on Copper Flat Mine, V: Some facts to remember about the mine
Will Copper Flat Mine bring economic benefits to the county? A reasonable answer needs to balance both pros and the cons, not just repeat the PR blurbs. Here are some pertinent publicly known facts you may want to remember that relate to how Copper Flat Mine may impact us.
Proposal for new data center back on the drawing board at Spaceport America with solar energy and water extracted from the air
Despite 18-month moratorium on new data centers on private land in Sierra County, Green Data is pushing for a new plant at Sacepoprt America with a few twist: atmospheric water generation units to produce water from the air.
Emergency? Elephant Butte Reservoir is becoming a reservoid
The gross receipts and lodgers tax revenue figures for local governments don't bear out that low lake levels have caused that much economic damage. Are local governments' emergency declarations crying wolf?
T or C plans for next $25m in water system overhaul
But will this $2.3 million engineering plan and $25 million in construction be done to get water to the airport to attract business? And the people, once again, will be on the hook for building it, in the hopes they will come? Business is special interest. What about the people?
Hearing on Copper Flat Mine, IV: Sierra County can’t afford to gamble with our water
The fourth part of this series on Mining and Minerals Division’s September 17th Hearing on permitting Copper Flat Mine is written by guest writer Lee Newman, owner of Animas Creek Nursery.
Hearing on Copper Flat Mine, III
NMCC’s amended application to mine Copper Flat Mine focuses on the change in tailings management and the claim of saving water. It neglects to discuss how the loss of 80% of their claimed water rights would affect their plan to reclaim the pit, because it doesn’t plan any change.
Hearing on Copper Flat Mine, II
This article is the second analysis of the Copper Flat Mine project. Mining and Minerals Division will hold a hearing on the application’s proposal to filter tailings to save water. It is doubtful if this change will save water and if it will save enough water to operate the mine.
Zombies pass Sierra Vista Hospital FY2027 budget
A one-page budget, passed with no questions asked and turned into the Department of Finance and Administration three weeks late. That's the level of fiscal oversight our publicly-owned hospital is getting from our elected officials.