By Mark Cowling | Florence Reminder
(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Southwest Value Partners in its fight to prevent the mine from opening in the middle of a master-planned family community.)
The Florence Town Council voted unanimously in a special meeting Monday to appeal the state environmental agency’s issuance of a permit for Florence Copper to conduct a small-scale test run of its mine on Hunt Highway.
The town, along with other plaintiffs, argued unsuccessfully a few years ago that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) lacked the authority to award the permit.