BANGOR DAILY NEWS • December 11, 2023
Wolfden Resources Corporation is asking Maine’s Land Use Planning Commission to allow them to open a proposed mine to extract minerals such as zinc, lead and copper, which they can’t currently do on the parcel they are seeking to rezone. The LUPC has certain guidelines they must follow when considering this request, including an assessment of both potential positive and negative impacts, but ultimately the onus is on Wolfden as the applicant to convince the LUPC that their proposal merits this rezoning. We aren’t convinced that this proposal meets a critical part of the LUPC’s decision-making criteria for such a zone change.