Bonasababy
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Per Cal Callaghan...
The U.S. senate is likely to take up the joint resolution next week that the house passed already...see
...allowing for copper mining within the BWCA or its watershed just outside it.
This follows extensive environmental review of the feasibility that such mining could be allowed there without creating what every similar mine has...lasting and extensive pollution and environmental harm. The containment (clean up is difficult to impossible) costs of which are carried by taxpayers.
The conclusion of the review...mining there would create harm. The watershed is large...over a million acres and more in Canada..and includes a thousand lakes many of which have direct water connections and canoe portages--the draw that has made the BWCA the most visited wilderness in the country.
The review led to a temporary mining ban there that the house resolution voted to repeal, and senate action could remove.
Also of note...the mining is being proposed by a foreign company with a bad environmental track record. And the mined product would not be reserved for use only in the USA , but sold on the world market.
Please consider contacting your US senators and ask them to uphold the temporary ban on mining there.
The U.S. senate is likely to take up the joint resolution next week that the house passed already...see
...allowing for copper mining within the BWCA or its watershed just outside it.
This follows extensive environmental review of the feasibility that such mining could be allowed there without creating what every similar mine has...lasting and extensive pollution and environmental harm. The containment (clean up is difficult to impossible) costs of which are carried by taxpayers.
The conclusion of the review...mining there would create harm. The watershed is large...over a million acres and more in Canada..and includes a thousand lakes many of which have direct water connections and canoe portages--the draw that has made the BWCA the most visited wilderness in the country.
The review led to a temporary mining ban there that the house resolution voted to repeal, and senate action could remove.
Also of note...the mining is being proposed by a foreign company with a bad environmental track record. And the mined product would not be reserved for use only in the USA , but sold on the world market.
Please consider contacting your US senators and ask them to uphold the temporary ban on mining there.
