In another disgraceful action lead by Mayor Hiremath, and followed by his "four stooges," the council last night voted 5-2 (Garner & Gillaspie , the only two with any compassion) to once again reconsider the Coyote Run Bus Service.
Once again, these five are "playing mind games" with the elderly & disabled that require this service, by putting off another decision until July 20.
These representatives can not make a definitive decision and do NOT deserve to serve the people of Oro Valley!
Their action is nothing less than abominable.
Here's The Explorer online article.
http://explorernews.com/news/oro_valley/article_2bfca6b0-97d9-11e0-b7d7-001cc4c03286.html
Thursday, June 16, 2011
FACTS About The Rosemont Mine That Mayor Hirmath REFUSED To Hear!
Shame on Hiremath. Once again, he proves if you don't agree with with him, he'll use the power of his position to "shut you up." His total lack of respect does not go unnoticed.
Shame of him!!!
At last night's council meeting on the Rosemont Mine issue, the council voted (as usual) 5-2 (Garner & Gillaspie only support) to NOT allow speakers. As such,the following info has been emailed to Hiremath by a prominent southern Az physician who was one of many that Hiremath refused to hear
Hiremath disgraces Oro Valley!
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KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROPOSED ROSEMONT MINE
Rosemont Copper and its parent company, Augusta Resource, are spending significant amounts of money attempting to convince southern Arizonans that the proposed, massive Rosemont mine in the Santa Rita mountains will not adversely impact our quality of life. However, when one looks beyond Rosemont’s PR spin and examines key facts about this project, it becomes clear that the proposed Rosemont Mine is bad for our environment, our economy and our communities.
FACT: Augusta, a Canadian company, is using a law signed in 1872 by President Ulysses S. Grant to take 4,000 acres of our public lands essentially for free and turn it into an open pit copper mine and mine waste dump.
Mine Plan of Operations, Rosemont Copper, July 2007 (http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/rosemont/mpo.shtml)
FACT: In documents filed with Canadian financial regulatory agency, Augusta Resource discloses that it has no “history of production” and “has never recorded any revenues from mining operations.” As a result, there is no track record on which to evaluate Rosemont Copper’s willingness or ability to follow through on its promises on how it will operate this mine.
2011 Annnual Information Form, Augusta Resource Corporation, SEDAR, March 31, 2011
http://www.sedar.com/sedar/sedar_en.htm
FACT: Rosemont Copper will excavate a massive open pit copper mine that will be over a mile across rim-to-rim and more than a half a mile deep. The amount of rock that will be removed will weigh the same as 18,000 aircraft carriers.
Mine Plan of Operations, Rosemont Copper, July 2007 (http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/rosemont/mpo.shtml)
U.S. Department of Navy
http://www.navy.com/about/equipment/vessels/carriers.html
FACT: The proposed Rosemont mine will have no direct access to a rail line. The only access to the mine site is via scenic State Route 83 and I-10. All of the ore extracted from the mine and all of the equipment, chemicals, and explosives will be trucked on that rural highway. The access routes for the proposed Rosemont Mine runs straight through anticipated growth areas for the City of Tucson.
Mine Plan of Operations, Rosemont Copper, July 2007 (http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/rosemont/mpo.shtml)
Growth Focus Areas, City of Tucson
www.ci.tucson.az.us/pdf/csp-growth2.pdf
FACT: Unlike every other industrial, agricultural, and residential water user in the state, mines are essentially unregulated water users. Groundwater extraction permits for mines are “must issue”. As a result, they face no legal restrictions or limits on the amount of water they can extract from the aquifer. Notwithstanding what they say today, Rosemont can pump as much water as they want at any point in the future.
Arizona Revised Statutes (ARS 45-514)
http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/ars/45/00514.htm&Title=45&DocType=ARS
Mine Plan of Operations, Rosemont Copper, July 2007 (http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/rosemont/mpo.shtml)
FACT: The open pit for the Rosemont Copper mine will be excavated right into the middle of a major aquifer for the region. While the mine is operating, continuous pumping will be necessary to prevent the mine from flooding. According to Rosemont’s planning documents, when the mine closes, pumping will cease and storm run-off will be directed into the pit and a “pit lake” will be created. Experience with other mines clearly indicates the potential that water in this pit lake will become a highly toxic soup and as a result, a risk of it seeping into the groundwater—contaminating this aquifer, a key southern Arizona water source.
Mine Plan of Operations, Rosemont Copper, July 2007 (http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/rosemont/mpo.shtml)
Hydrogeology of the Santa Rita Rosemont Project Site Numerical Groundwater Modeling of the Conceptual Flow Model and Effects of the Construction of the Proposed Open Pit April 2008, Tom Myers PhD, Prepared for: Pima County Regional Flood Control District
(www.pima.gov/cmo/sdcp/reports/d51/rosemont.mine.goundwater.pdf)
Groundwater Flow Modeling Conducted for Simulation of Proposed Rosemont Pit Dewatering and Post-Closure Rosemont Project Pima County, Arizona, Montogomery and Associate prepared for Rosemont Copper, October 2009
http://rosemonteis.us/techreports/groundwater_flow_model_simulation.pdf
FACT: The Rosemont mine will permanently destroy a significant area of the Santa Rita Mountain Range. Rosemont’s Reclamation Plan makes it clear that post closure, it will not backfill the open pit thus leaving a mile-wide hole in the ground forever, that will result in the creation of a pit lake.
Mine Plan of Operations, Rosemont Copper, July 2007 (http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/rosemont/mpo.shtml)
Shame of him!!!
At last night's council meeting on the Rosemont Mine issue, the council voted (as usual) 5-2 (Garner & Gillaspie only support) to NOT allow speakers. As such,the following info has been emailed to Hiremath by a prominent southern Az physician who was one of many that Hiremath refused to hear
Hiremath disgraces Oro Valley!
*************************************************************************************
KEY FACTS ABOUT THE PROPOSED ROSEMONT MINE
Rosemont Copper and its parent company, Augusta Resource, are spending significant amounts of money attempting to convince southern Arizonans that the proposed, massive Rosemont mine in the Santa Rita mountains will not adversely impact our quality of life. However, when one looks beyond Rosemont’s PR spin and examines key facts about this project, it becomes clear that the proposed Rosemont Mine is bad for our environment, our economy and our communities.
FACT: Augusta, a Canadian company, is using a law signed in 1872 by President Ulysses S. Grant to take 4,000 acres of our public lands essentially for free and turn it into an open pit copper mine and mine waste dump.
Mine Plan of Operations, Rosemont Copper, July 2007 (http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/rosemont/mpo.shtml)
FACT: In documents filed with Canadian financial regulatory agency, Augusta Resource discloses that it has no “history of production” and “has never recorded any revenues from mining operations.” As a result, there is no track record on which to evaluate Rosemont Copper’s willingness or ability to follow through on its promises on how it will operate this mine.
2011 Annnual Information Form, Augusta Resource Corporation, SEDAR, March 31, 2011
http://www.sedar.com/sedar/sedar_en.htm
FACT: Rosemont Copper will excavate a massive open pit copper mine that will be over a mile across rim-to-rim and more than a half a mile deep. The amount of rock that will be removed will weigh the same as 18,000 aircraft carriers.
Mine Plan of Operations, Rosemont Copper, July 2007 (http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/rosemont/mpo.shtml)
U.S. Department of Navy
http://www.navy.com/about/equipment/vessels/carriers.html
FACT: The proposed Rosemont mine will have no direct access to a rail line. The only access to the mine site is via scenic State Route 83 and I-10. All of the ore extracted from the mine and all of the equipment, chemicals, and explosives will be trucked on that rural highway. The access routes for the proposed Rosemont Mine runs straight through anticipated growth areas for the City of Tucson.
Mine Plan of Operations, Rosemont Copper, July 2007 (http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/rosemont/mpo.shtml)
Growth Focus Areas, City of Tucson
www.ci.tucson.az.us/pdf/csp-growth2.pdf
FACT: Unlike every other industrial, agricultural, and residential water user in the state, mines are essentially unregulated water users. Groundwater extraction permits for mines are “must issue”. As a result, they face no legal restrictions or limits on the amount of water they can extract from the aquifer. Notwithstanding what they say today, Rosemont can pump as much water as they want at any point in the future.
Arizona Revised Statutes (ARS 45-514)
http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/ars/45/00514.htm&Title=45&DocType=ARS
Mine Plan of Operations, Rosemont Copper, July 2007 (http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/rosemont/mpo.shtml)
FACT: The open pit for the Rosemont Copper mine will be excavated right into the middle of a major aquifer for the region. While the mine is operating, continuous pumping will be necessary to prevent the mine from flooding. According to Rosemont’s planning documents, when the mine closes, pumping will cease and storm run-off will be directed into the pit and a “pit lake” will be created. Experience with other mines clearly indicates the potential that water in this pit lake will become a highly toxic soup and as a result, a risk of it seeping into the groundwater—contaminating this aquifer, a key southern Arizona water source.
Mine Plan of Operations, Rosemont Copper, July 2007 (http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/rosemont/mpo.shtml)
Hydrogeology of the Santa Rita Rosemont Project Site Numerical Groundwater Modeling of the Conceptual Flow Model and Effects of the Construction of the Proposed Open Pit April 2008, Tom Myers PhD, Prepared for: Pima County Regional Flood Control District
(www.pima.gov/cmo/sdcp/reports/d51/rosemont.mine.goundwater.pdf)
Groundwater Flow Modeling Conducted for Simulation of Proposed Rosemont Pit Dewatering and Post-Closure Rosemont Project Pima County, Arizona, Montogomery and Associate prepared for Rosemont Copper, October 2009
http://rosemonteis.us/techreports/groundwater_flow_model_simulation.pdf
FACT: The Rosemont mine will permanently destroy a significant area of the Santa Rita Mountain Range. Rosemont’s Reclamation Plan makes it clear that post closure, it will not backfill the open pit thus leaving a mile-wide hole in the ground forever, that will result in the creation of a pit lake.
Mine Plan of Operations, Rosemont Copper, July 2007 (http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/rosemont/mpo.shtml)
After June 15 Oro Valley Council Meeting, There Should Be FIVE Recalls
Initiating a recall on Joe Hornat and Mary Snider is totally justified.
Not recalling Hiremath, Solomom & Waters may have been a mistake.
The audacity of this "Gang of Five!"
With a standing room only crowd, these five did more damage to Oro Valley's reputation in one night than could be imagined.
Voting 5-2, (Garner & Gillaspie) the council REFUSED to allow any speakers on the Rosemont Mine issue, to reconsider a previous council's unanimous resolution in opposition to this mine. Then, as usual, Snider did a "flip-flop." Trying to impress the voters, although it is way too late, she joined with Garner & Gillaspie and voted against the resolution. This was a meaningless, shallow, self-serving maneuver by a woman that consistently proves she is not worthy of serving us.
Any Oro Valley voter concerned with our environment, our wildlife, or the contamination of our water should sign the recall petitions immediately.
But that's not all. Keeping our elderly and disabled dangling for another month, these five voted to reconsider the Coyote Bus Service. What a disgrace!
Any Oro Valley voter that uses this service---or any voter sympathetic to their plight should sign the recall petitions immediately.
And let's not forget, these five passed the budget last night without even taking a minute to consider all the areas that Bill Garner pointed out, where spending could be cut back.
Any reasonable person shouldn't ask why Hornat & Snider are being recalled. The only question is why Hiremath, Solomon & Waters were not included. Too bad they weren't!
Not recalling Hiremath, Solomom & Waters may have been a mistake.
The audacity of this "Gang of Five!"
With a standing room only crowd, these five did more damage to Oro Valley's reputation in one night than could be imagined.
Voting 5-2, (Garner & Gillaspie) the council REFUSED to allow any speakers on the Rosemont Mine issue, to reconsider a previous council's unanimous resolution in opposition to this mine. Then, as usual, Snider did a "flip-flop." Trying to impress the voters, although it is way too late, she joined with Garner & Gillaspie and voted against the resolution. This was a meaningless, shallow, self-serving maneuver by a woman that consistently proves she is not worthy of serving us.
Any Oro Valley voter concerned with our environment, our wildlife, or the contamination of our water should sign the recall petitions immediately.
But that's not all. Keeping our elderly and disabled dangling for another month, these five voted to reconsider the Coyote Bus Service. What a disgrace!
Any Oro Valley voter that uses this service---or any voter sympathetic to their plight should sign the recall petitions immediately.
And let's not forget, these five passed the budget last night without even taking a minute to consider all the areas that Bill Garner pointed out, where spending could be cut back.
Any reasonable person shouldn't ask why Hornat & Snider are being recalled. The only question is why Hiremath, Solomon & Waters were not included. Too bad they weren't!
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