BANGOR DAILY NEWS • September 15, 2023
The Maine Land Use Planning Commission scheduled an additional public hearing location in Bangor for a Canadian junior mining company’s rezoning application for the Pickett Mountain mining project. The decision came Thursday evening after 54 Maine legislators made the request earlier in the day. The LUPC had scheduled a three-day public hearing on the Wolfden mining project for Oct. 16, 17 and 18, at Stearns High School in Millinocket. But the primarily Democratic legislators said in a letter to the LUPC that people throughout Maine, not just those living in the project area, have an interest in providing comments about mining activity located near treasured natural resources.