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ADEQ refuses to release secret emails with Governor’s Office about Rosemont mine’s air pollution permit

July 19, 2013 By John Dougherty 3 Comments

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By John Dougherty

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality is refusing to release more than a dozen emails with the governor’s office concerning the issuance of the air pollution permit for the proposed Rosemont copper mine.

Most of the withheld emails are between Kevin Kinsall, Governor Jan Brewer’s policy advisor for natural resources, and Eric Massey, director of the ADEQ’s Air Quality Division. Kinsall and Massey exchanged a dozen emails between last Aug. 1 and Aug. 8 during a crucial period when the state took control of Rosemont’s air pollution permit from Pima County.

The ADEQ announced last Aug. 3 that it was asserting authority over the review and issuance of Rosemont Copper Company’s application for the pollution permit for its massive open pit copper mine planned for the Santa Rita Mountains southeast of Tucson. ADEQ stated it was assuming oversight of the permit to “ensure regulatory certainty and enhanced environmental protection.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Current Investigations, Rosemont Tagged With: ADEQ

“Cyanide Beach” to premiere in Washington, D.C. on April 25

April 19, 2013 By John Dougherty Leave a Comment

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InvestigativeMEDIA is pleased to announce the Washington, D.C. premiere of “Cyanide Beach” is scheduled for 6:30 p.m., April 25 at the award-winning E Street Cinema. Admission is free.

“The Washington screening of “Cyanide Beach” is a major milestone in our nationwide effort to inform the public and key policy makers of how a speculative Canadian mining company with a history of deception is exploiting outdated U.S. mining laws in its effort to build a massive open-pit copper mine on public lands in Southern Arizona,” says InvestigativeMEDIA Editor and Filmmaker John Dougherty.

Rep. Raul Grijalva, (D-AZ), Earthworks Executive Director Jennifer Krill and Earthworks Policy Director Lauren Pagel will attend the screening and answer questions about efforts to reform the General Mining Act of 1872.

InvestigativeMEDIA’s 24-minute video reveals the unethical business tactics of Augusta Resource Corporation’s top executives when they owned and operated a gold mine in Sardinia, Italy between 2003 and 2007.

Augusta Resource owns the Rosemont Copper Company, which is seeking government permits to build a mile-wide, half-mile deep copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains on the Coronado National Forest southeast of Tucson.

Earthworks has dubbed the Rosemont mine project as the “poster child” for reforming the antiquated mining law.

The Washington Post selected the E Street Cinema as Washington’s Best Movie Theater in 2011 and 2012.

Filed Under: Rosemont Tagged With: Executive Director Jennifer Krill, Raul Grijalva, Washington

InvestigativeMedia releases 7,000 pages of Forest Service records on proposed Rosemont copper mine

April 1, 2013 By John Dougherty 1 Comment

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InvestigativeMedia is pleased to release more than 7,000 pages of  Coronado National Forest records on the proposed Rosemont open-pit copper mine. The records were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.

The records include internal emails and supporting documents from January 2012 through early February providing a first-hand look at the permitting process for the proposed mile-wide, half-mile deep mine in the Santa Rita Mountains on the Coronado National Forest about 35 miles southeast of Tucson.

InvestigativeMedia encourages the public and other media to analyze the information and provide feedback on this site. The goal is to encourage public-interest, cloud reporting using this site as a clearinghouse of information, feedback, comments and suggestions on additional reporting.

InvestigativeMedia will issue a series of reports based on these records and information from other sources, including the public.

The Forest Service records are in two large PDF files available here and here.

The release of records is part of InvestigativeMedia’s ongoing review of Augusta Resource Corporation’s proposed Rosemont copper mine, including the 2012 documentary Cyanide Beach.

Filed Under: Current Investigations, Featured, Rosemont Tagged With: Coronado National Forest, Coronado National Forest records, Forest Service, InvestigativeMedia, Rosemont

Update: InvestigativeMEDIA releases “Rosemont’s Power Play” report and announces digital release of “Cyanide Beach”

December 18, 2012 By John Dougherty 1 Comment

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The multimedia project includes:

  • Report:  A Sardinian gold mine unearths the deceptive business tactics of Rosemont Copper’s top executives. (Click Here)
  • Timeline: The top officers of Rosemont Copper’s parent company, Augusta Resource Corporation, have a history of bankruptcies, cease trade orders and stock exchange delistings (Click Here)

The multimedia project focuses on Augusta Resource Corporation, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based speculative mining company that wants to build a massive open pit copper mine in the environmentally-sensitive Santa Rita Mountains on the Coronado National Forest 35 miles south of Tucson, AZ.

InvestigativeMEDIA reviewed thousands of pages of financial documents and conducted interviews in the United States, Canada and Italy to document the business history of Augusta’s key executives.

The probe uncovered a tangled history of cease trade orders,  an insider trading settlement agreement, stock exchange delistings, personal and corporate bankruptcies, false disclosure statements to regulators and an abandoned Sardinian gold mine that is creating serious, ongoing environmental problems.

Las Cienegas National Conservation Area

Augusta owns the Rosemont Copper Company. Rosemont is seeking government permits to build what could become one of the largest copper mines in the United States, producing 240 million pounds of copper annually for approximately 21 years.

The mile-wide, half-mile deep mine would dump waste rock and mine tailings on more than 3,000 acres of the Coronado National Forest and destroy much of a watershed that provides runoff to a rare, shallow Sonoran Desert aquifer beneath the federally-protected Las Cienegas National Conservation Area.

 

Filed Under: Current Investigations, Rosemont Tagged With: Augusta Resource Corporation, Rosemont, Rosemont Copper

InvestigativeMedia Announces Online Digital Release of “Cyanide Beach”

December 18, 2012 By John Dougherty 1 Comment

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Rimrock, AZ -InvestigativeMEDIA, LLC is pleased to announced that its documentary “Cyanide Beach” is now available for free public distribution.

“Help us make this video go viral as part of our effort to inform the public about the shady business background of the speculators who want to destroy the Santa Rita Mountains with a massive open-pit copper mine,” filmmaker John Dougherty said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Rosemont

“Cyanide Beach” headlines Tucson’s Progressive Film Festival

October 26, 2012 By John Dougherty Leave a Comment

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“Cyanide Beach” will be shown at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 28 at the Screening Room in Downtown Tucson. Producer John Dougherty will be available to answer questions about the Rosemont Copper mine project.

Filed Under: Rosemont Tagged With: Downtown Tucson, Producer John Dougherty, Progressive Film Festival, Tucson

“Cyanide Beach” will be rebroadcast at 4 p.m. Sunday on KGUN Channel 9

October 13, 2012 By John Dougherty Leave a Comment

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If you missed the television premiere of Cyanide Beach on Sunday, there’s another chance to watch the ground-breaking documentary this Sunday, Oct. 21 at 4 p.m. on KGUN-Channel 9

The broadcast includes new material from the version released on Aug. 23 in Tucson and shown throughout southern Arizona theaters and community centers the last seven weeks.

The updated documentary includes information on Augusta Resource Corporation’s deceptive advertising campaign to promote the construction of the Rosemont copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains on the Coronado National Forest south of Tucson.

Be sure to check out Cyanide Beach at 4 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 21 on KGUN, Tucson’s ABC affiliate.

Filed Under: Current Investigations, Rosemont

Read Dougherty’s column in Green Valley News on Augusta Resource executives’ history of deception

September 17, 2012 By John Dougherty Leave a Comment

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Augusta Resource Corp. CEO Gil Clausen’s Aug. 23 statement in response to InvestigativeMEDIA’s documentary “Cyanide Beach” is a clumsy attempt to deflect public attention from the truth (‘Cyanide Beach’: Rosemont responds,” Sept. 9. Page A7).

The facts are simple as they are ugly.

Read the rest of InvestigativeMEDIA founder John Dougherty’s September 15 column in the Green Valley News by clicking here.

Filed Under: Current Investigations, Rosemont Tagged With: Augusta Resource, Augusta Resource Corp., Green Valley News, Read Dougherty

Green Valley News on “Cyanide Beach”: “You should see it.”

September 2, 2012 By John Dougherty Leave a Comment

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Green Valley News editor Dan Shearer devotes his Sunday column to InvestigativeMEDIA’s documentary “Cyanide Beach” and states: “This documentary…does raise questions that Rosemont must address if it intends to move forward with integrity.”

“Cyanide Beach” will have two screenings on Monday, Sept. 17. The 24-minute documentary will be shown at 10 a.m. at the Tubac Community Center and at 6:30 p.m. at the Quail Creek Crystal Ballroom. The film will also be shown at 7 p.m., Sept. 29 in Patagonia at the Tin Shed. More screenings are being scheduled. Please see “events” for more information.

“Cyanide Beach” played to a packed house Sept. 5 and 6 at the Desert Sky Cinema in Sahuarita. More than 800 people have seen the documentary at two screenings in Tucson and two in Sahuarita.

Filed Under: Current Investigations, Rosemont Tagged With: documentary, Green Valley News, Tubac Community Center

A video timeline of Richard Warke’s checkered business history

August 23, 2012 By Investigative Media Leave a Comment

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Video timeline of the business history of Augusta Resource’s longtime business partners

Filed Under: Flin Flon Flim Flam, Rosemont

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