Dan Millis Article Summary #5

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/al-gedicks-wisconsin-is-testing-ground-for-mining-industry-response/article_d456bb28-8695-11e2-9195-0019bb2963f4.html

Al Gedicks: Wisconsin is testing ground for mining industry responses to opposition


In 1998 EXXON lost its battle with Mole Lake Ojibwe over the Crandon project, a sulfide mine operation threatening Wisconsin beginning in 1975.  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crandon_mine)
This operation was set to destroy the headwaters of the Wolf River, but this "Prove it First" Mining Moratorium Law shut the operation down.

"Veterans of the Crandon mine battle were among those who mobilized public opinion against GogebicTaconite's proposal for a giant open-pit iron mine i the headwaters of the Bad River watershed..."  This grass-roots movement has shut down many other mining proposals, so shouldn't we feel optimistic about it shutting down GTac, too?

 "To counter growing opposition, GTac wrote a 206-page iron mining bill that not only exempts it from important environmental safeguards, such as prove it is safe first, but applies lessons the industry has learned from the Crandon mine defeat to the Penokee Hills strip mine project..."

This bill written by GTac gives only what they want the public toknow about their operation, and also gives the DNR very little to work with as well.  Why would we trust a company that writes their own lawn to protect themselves?  It makes no sense to me how something this obviously evil could ever be seen as something good for this state.  Are we in need of jobs this badly.  I only see this as a sure thing to destroy our wetlands and to be a cancer for this states environmental health.  Lets all hope the movement that sent EXXON running for the hills can do so yet again before this evil empire can snake into our state and poinson our land.