BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 28, 2023
In what might be the toughest challenge yet for Canadian junior mining company Wolfden, two Maine tribes and environmental law groups filed a petition Wednesday to intervene in the Land Use Planning Commission’s review of Wolfden’s rezoning application. Earthjustice, a public interest law group, filed the petition on behalf of the Penobscot Nation, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians and the Natural Resources Council of Maine. The Conservation Law Foundation is also named in the petition filing. The petitioners want the LUPC to deny rezoning the area slated for the Pickett Mining Project because it threatens natural resources and Wabanaki Nation lands and waters.