Post by Admin on Sept 6, 2020 8:42:16 GMT -7
Hearing set on Lucky Minerals appeal
The Bozeman Chronicle reports:
"A hearing over a district court judge’s 2018 decision to strike down a mining company’s drilling permit in the mountains east of the Paradise Valley is scheduled before the Montana Supreme Court this month.
The hearing is set for Sept. 30 in the Mazurek Justice Building in Helena. It will be livestreamed, according to the clerk’s office.
Judges will consider an appeal from Lucky Minerals, Inc. and the Montana Department of Environmental Quality over a 2018 Park County District Court decision to invalidate an exploratory drilling permit granted to the company in 2017. Brenda Gilbert, the judge in the case, ruled in favor of environmentalists, who argued the mining company’s exploratory drilling permit was unlawfully approved.
The district court invalidated DEQ’s approval of the private land drilling project on the grounds that an amendment to state environmental laws violated the Montana constitution’s guarantee of a person’s right to a “clean and healthful environment.”
Jenny Harbine, an Earthjustice attorney representing the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and the Park County Environmental Council, the groups that originally sued, said the judges have signaled particular interest in the constitutional implications of the case."
Read the full story here.
"A hearing over a district court judge’s 2018 decision to strike down a mining company’s drilling permit in the mountains east of the Paradise Valley is scheduled before the Montana Supreme Court this month.
The hearing is set for Sept. 30 in the Mazurek Justice Building in Helena. It will be livestreamed, according to the clerk’s office.
Judges will consider an appeal from Lucky Minerals, Inc. and the Montana Department of Environmental Quality over a 2018 Park County District Court decision to invalidate an exploratory drilling permit granted to the company in 2017. Brenda Gilbert, the judge in the case, ruled in favor of environmentalists, who argued the mining company’s exploratory drilling permit was unlawfully approved.
The district court invalidated DEQ’s approval of the private land drilling project on the grounds that an amendment to state environmental laws violated the Montana constitution’s guarantee of a person’s right to a “clean and healthful environment.”
Jenny Harbine, an Earthjustice attorney representing the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and the Park County Environmental Council, the groups that originally sued, said the judges have signaled particular interest in the constitutional implications of the case."
Read the full story here.