A former Coronado National Forest chief says her boss forced her a decade ago to stop questioning the legality of the proposed Rosemont Mine. The issues she was trying to raise match those a federal judge just used to bar construction of the mine.

Former Coronado Forest supervisor Jeanine Derby told the Arizona Daily Star last week that she and a top aide were flown from Tucson to the service’s Albuquerque regional office for “counseling” to bring her staff in line.

She and her staff had been raising many questions in conversations with higher-ups about whether the mining company could legally dump waste rock and tailings on public land, Derby said.

The upshot of that meeting was that Derby and her staff stopped raising questions internally about key Rosemont issues, she said.

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