Smith River mine getting shut down?

Projects like this almost never die. They get shelved until such time as the proponent feels conditions are more favorable for approval. The judge said DEQ's decision was arbitary, capricious, and unlawful. All DEQ has to do is rewrite the decision is a way that avoids being arbitrary and capricious while the applicant lobbies to modify whatever law compromised DEQ's decision. Unfortunately, this sort of thing is nearly routine.
 
Having read this and prior decisions and most of the permitting documents and comment/intervenor letters, I think there's one thing we can count on.
This'll be appealed. Arbitrary and capricious is a very, very difficult standard to prove.
 
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