It is so great to see young people getting involved in this issue. Read a great piece in the Montana Kaimin, the University of Montana student newspaper, looking at all sides of the Smith River mine issue.

On March 14, 2016, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality submitted their first deficiency notice on Tintina’s Mine Operating Permit application. Tom Livers, DEQ Director said, “The most significant pieces are the couple of pieces where they’re still working on it so we don’t have it in the application they submitted. All the geochemistry work and…

Montana Trout Unlimited presents a review of the mine permit application Tintina Resources submitted December 15, 2015 to the Department of Environmental Quality . The review was conducted by outside professional consultants Montana TU retained. The consultants’ findings uncovered significant shortcomings in items such as operation descriptions as well as data completeness and quality for items such…