Sunny High: 66 | Low: 47 | Details, page 2 DAILY GLOBE yourdailyglobe.com Saturday, September 6, 2014 75 cents G-Tac considers FARMERS MARKET ‘pulling out’ of Ashland County By RYAN JARVI $50,000 in that account, which
[email protected] would need to be met within 15 UPSON, Wis. — Gogebic days, if it ever dropped below. Taconite’s proposed iron ore Seitz said the county would mine near Upson may cover a determine what the money could smaller area than originally pro- be used for, and possibly deny posed because of opposition to the permit anyway. the project by Ashland County “I don’t think that taking peo- officials. ple’s money without giving fair The majority of the originally consideration is acting in good proposed 3,200-acre mine site is faith,” Seitz said. located in Iron County, but 400 The full project, including acres rest over the county line in Ashland County, is expected to Ashland County. run 35 years. If Ashland County Part of G-Tac’s decision to is excluded, the operation time reconsider the Ashland portion of may shorten, but not by much. the project is in response to the “This is by no means a final county’s mining ordinance that decision of pulling out of Ashland was approved by the county County. It’s one of the things board last year. we’ll be looking at over the win- “Their ordinance would ter,” Seitz said. charge us $100,000 and require He mentioned Pete Russo, us to send in $50,000 more every chair of the Ashland County time they asked us,” said Bob Board of Supervisors, who Seitz Seitz, a spokesperson for G-Tac.