BizTimes Editor Unmasks Mining Law

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http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/2014/02/biztimes-editor-unmasks-mining-law.html

"Moot" is how Steve Jagler, Executive Editor at BizTimes puts it:

...the bottom has fallen out of the mining industry, and the bill is being exposed for what it was: a law written by proponents of the mining industry that was not tenable with federal environmental standards.
...a recent report by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ Research Bureau warned that iron mining in northern Wisconsin would pose a variety of potential threats to human health and to the water supply that connects the complex ecosystem in the forest to wetland bogs and Lake Superior.
In a Dec. 23 letter to Matt Moroney, deputy secretary of the DNR, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ regulatory branch chief, Tamara Cameron, said the federal agency would not be able to work alongside the state to develop a joint environmental impact statement for the proposed Gogebic Taconite.

The blockbuster Dec. 23rd letter that Jagler references repeated a 2011 warning that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had sent to Wisconsin officials, including the Governor and DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp, that the proposed - - -and-now-passed-and-signed - - fast-tracking/streamlining mining law was going to slow down required federal approvals.
And without those federal approvals, there is no mine.

[Scuba]

1. "There is no mine" is music to my ears.

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2. The re-writing of WI's DNR laws gave G-Tac the "legal right" to

1.) Pollute all area streams & rivers some designated as as Exceptional or Outstanding Resource waters which feed the Bad River Flowage,

2.) Resulting in the pollution/poisoning of the pristine Great Lake Superior,

3.) Fill the surrounding air with asbestos resulting in mesothelioma for too many,

4.) Literally destroy the Penokee Hills old growth Forest creating the largest open pit mine in the world which includes innumerable ecosystems.

5.) Destroy the tourism, hunting & fishing businesses which provides many area jobs.

6.) Violate and destroy much of the indigenous American's food sources (such as wild rice & fish), environment and way of life.

I'm sure this is but a rudimentary outline of the destruction/devastation that will occur d/t a few outsider billionaires' greed but You get the picture.

How I wish there is a hell severe enough to cast all those involved in the responsibility for & supporting of these evil acts!!!