Protectors of the Menominee River, a community action group based in Keshena, Wisconsin expressed their passionate opposition to the Back Forty Mining project yesterday and deplored recent action by Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality to approve the final permit required for the mine. Aquila Resources, a Canadian company, plans to construct an open-pit sulfide mine only 150 feet from the Menominee River in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The protectors say that the mine presents dangers to the water quality in the river, Green Bay, and Lake Michigan. County boards of Menominee County, Michigan, and Marinette, Oconto, Menominee, Shawano, Outagamie, Brown and Door Counties in Wisconsin have all passed resolutions opposing the Back Forty project.