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CuMo Exploration Project Moves Forward to Provide Jobs in Boise County Despite Environmental Groups’ Lawsuit Aimed at U.S. Forest Service
CuMo Exploration Project Moves Forward to Provide Jobs in Boise County Despite Environmental Groups’ Lawsuit Aimed at U.S. Forest Service.
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[{"type":"text","content":" MOSQUITO CONSOLIDATED GOLD MINES LTD. MSQ-TSX-VENTURETel: 604-689-7902 WWW.MOSQUITOGOLD .COM FAX: 604-689-7816 CuMo Exploration Project Moves Forward to Provide Jobs in Boise County Despite Environmental Groups’ Lawsuit Aimed at U.S. Forest Service Vancouver, Canada, July 27, 2011. – Mosquito Consolidated Gold Mines (TSX.V: MSQ; US OTCQX: MQCMF - “Mosquito” or the “Company”) – wishes to announce that it has received notice that the U.S. Forest Service has been sued by three Idaho environmental groups opposed to its approved exploration within approximately 2,900 acres of National Forest land about 14 miles northwest of Idaho City, Idaho. In May 2011, the U.S. Forest Service, Intermountain Region, rejected the same environmental groups’ appeal of the Environmental Assessment for the CuMo Exploration Project. CuMo plans to move forward with its approved exploration, beginning in August 2011.“This lawsuit is simply another expected delaying tactic by environmental groups whose arguments have already been rejected by a thorough U.S. Forest Service Environmental Assessment,” said Shaun Dykes, CuMo project manager. “We are confident that the Forest Service’s environmental specialists and their consultants have done their job and the court will support the Service’s findings and dismiss the lawsuit.”Since the summer of 2010, when the Environmental Assessment was released for public comment, the CuMo project team has held onsite information sessions with environmental groups, conducted public hearings with over 500 responses, coordinated in-depth studies on impact on water, vegetation and wildlife and has obtained all ne...