Source
Automatically imported from: http://commons.somewhere.com:80/rre/1995/Mining-Exchange.EarthWIN.html
Content
This web service brought to you by Somewhere.Com, LLC.
Mining-Exchange & EarthWINS Daily
``` Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 08:54:56 -0600 From: amccombs@mail.wiscnet.net (Alice McCombs) Subject: Re: Mining-Exchange & EarthWINS Daily
[...]
Announcing Mining-exchange and EarthWINS Daily
Mining-exchange is an international email listserv dedicated to helping people who resist unsafe mining in their neighborhoods share information about their strategies, mining, and mining corporations.
Information posted to mining-exchange includes:
1. What people/groups are doing in their communities to resist mining: a. Community education, organizing. b. Participation in local, state, and federal public hearings, environment= al impact reports. c. Publications, email listservs, World Wide Web sites. d. Lawsuits, referendums, reforms of outdated/bad mining laws. e. Protests, rallies, demonstrations,letter-writing campaigns, phone banks=
---
2. Discussion/documentation of any of the following activities by mining companies: a. Pollution, tailings waste leakage, violations of environmental laws. b. Environmental racism, human rights violations. c. Interference with democratic participatory government, lobbying. d. Negative socio-economic impacts. e. Destruction of native/indigenous communities. 3. Mining companies': a. Parent companies, subsidiaries, directors, officers, corporate owners, and individual owners. b. Links to other mining companies. c. Links to other industries e.g. logging; paper; nuclear power, waste and arms; hazardous waste disposal; chemical; pesticide; etc. d. Links to right wing anti-environmental groups e.g. the Wise Use movemen= t, Anti-Indian movement, hate groups, militias, etc. 4. Sustainable alternatives to mining--how to effectively rethink, reduce, reuse and recycle minerals and metals.
EarthWINS Daily
EarthWINS Daily is the mining-exchange email newsletter distributed in digest form. Articles in the digest include: a. Your posts to mining-exchange: what's going on in your neighborhood introductions updates of group activities your group's publications--newsletters, brochures community education action alerts & events b. News about mining/activism compiled from other email listservs & news services. c. Information about mining corporations/activism d. Annotated citations of sources about mining/activism. e. Obtaining funding & media exposure for grassroots activism f. Nifty humor and email art
Mining-exchange exists to serve you, to help you preserve your community and the environment for you and your children. The mining-exchange motto is: "When Earth WINS, Everybody wins."
To receive EarthWINS Daily and subscribe to Mining-exchange: send an email message to: majordomo@igc.apc.org with message: subscribe mining-exchange
To submit information about unsafe mining to mining-exchange without
subscribing, send information to
----------------------------------------------
I / | \ | W ----o---- N | \ | / S
EarthWINS Weekly #4 12/14/95-12/20/95 Mining-Exchange News & Information Service 12/21/95
EarthWINS Weekly is a summary of the contents of the past week's EarthWINS Daily. If you would like to receive any of the articles listed, send an email request to: amccombs@mail.wiscnet.net.
EarthWINS Daily #22 12/14/95
1. ACTION ALERT! KEY VOTE ON UTAH WILDERNESS ANNIHILATION BILL AS EARLY AS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14th, 1995 2. Re: George Miller 3. Natural Resources Defense Council's, STATE OF NATURE December 8,1995: Mining-related excerpts 4. Excerpts from GREENLines a. Issue #16: NO PEOPLE? b. Issue #17: INTERIOR AGREEMENT WETLANDS CURB 5. House Votes to Retain Mining Moratorium! Budget Bill Threatens to Renew Giveaways 6. Mining and pesticides 7. Wisconsin Bill Re: Issuance of metallic mining permits for the mining of sulfide ore bodies
EarthWINS Daily #23 12/15/95
1. Re: Consenus B.S. 2. Reply to David White 3. New Zealand Mining Prohibition Bill 4. Re: AMD research
EarthWINS Daily #24 12/16/95
1. Important rare butterfly site being destroyed. (fwd) 2. Support needed for continued funding of former USBM research by DOE. 3. Socio-cultural aspects of mining 4. 1996 Australian Mining Environmental Workshop 5. Mining Industry Posts 6. Mining the mining industry - the nature of large corporations 7. The Corporate Machines
EarthWINS Daily #25 Part 1 12/17/95
1. Mining Association of Canada 2. New Zealand Mining Co Award Laughable (fwd) 3. Panning Fiji=EDs Gold Industry
EarthWINS Daily #25 Part 2 12/17/95
4. RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH WEEKLY #433: THE CORRUPTION OF OUR DEMOCRACY
EarthWINS Daily #26 12/18/95
1. Local groups using U.S. courts for redress against multinationals 2. Guyanas: updates on mining and logging
EarthWINS Daily #27 12/19/95
1. Re: Mining the mining industry - the nature of large corporations 2. Re: EarthWINS Daily #23 3. Compendium of Mining Practices 4. THE MINING ASSOCIATION OF CANADA ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 5. Mining Association of Canada Environmental Policy 6. Enviromine Posts a. Re: Sediment Metal Levels b. [Response to] Re: Sediment Metal Levels 7. GreenDisk Environmental Calendar 8. NATIONAL ENVIRONMETNAL CONFERENCE
EarthWINS Daily #28 12/19/95
1. The human variable 2. The nature of corporations 3. Re: EarthWINS Daily #27 4. A nugget for you
---
"People have the power to redeem the work of fools." Patti Smith
=46or Mother Earth. . . I =46or Humanity. . . / | \ | Alice McCombs W ----o---- N P.O. Box 573 | Shawano, WI 54166 \ | / S =46X: 715-524-9958 Email: amccombs@mail.wiscnet.net
PEACE
---
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 08:55:09 -0600 From: amccombs@mail.wiscnet.net (Alice McCombs) Subject: Sample--EarthWINS Daily
From: amccombs@mail.wiscnet.net (Alice McCombs) To: mining-exchange@econet.org (Recipients of 'mining-exchange' Mailinglist) Subject: EarthWINS Daily #22
I / | \ | W ----o---- N | \ | / S
EarthWINS Daily #22 Mining-Exchange News & Information Service 12/14/95
Table of Contents
1. ACTION ALERT! KEY VOTE ON UTAH WILDERNESS ANNIHILATION BILL AS EARLY AS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14th, 1995 2. Re: George Miller 3. Natural Resources Defense Council's, STATE OF NATURE December 8,1995: Mining-related excerpts 4. Excerpts from GREENLines a. Issue #16: NO PEOPLE? b. Issue #17: INTERIOR AGREEMENT WETLANDS CURB 5. House Votes to Retain Mining Moratorium! Budget Bill Threatens to Renew Giveaways 6. Mining and pesticides 7. Wisconsin Bill Re: Issuance of metallic mining permits for the mining of sulfide ore bodies
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1. ACTION ALERT! KEY VOTE ON UTAH WILDERNESS ANNIHILATION BILL AS EARLY AS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14th, 1995
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 95 15:54:24 From: liz.mccoy@sfsierra.sierraclub.org
ACTION ALERT .. ACTION ALERT .. ACTION ALERT .. ACTION ALERT ..
PLEASE CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY!
Proponents of Representative Jim Hansen's (R-UT) bad Utah "wilderness" bill are pushing hard to schedule a full House floor vote on HR 1745, "The Utah Public Lands Management Act," as early as Thursday, December 14th.
Wilderness advocates oppose HR 1745 for three major reasons: 1- the meager amount of wilderness that would be designated 2- the precedent setting "hard release" language 3- the damaging anti-wilderness management language in the bill
This bill makes a joke of the definition of wilderness under the 1964 Wilderness Act and MUST BE STOPPED. The upcoming floor vote is the biggest threat to canyon country and the concept of wilderness to date. We need your help!
Your Representative will play an integral role in this floor vote. Please call him/her today and then find at least five friends to do the same. The phone number for the DC capitol switch board is: (202) 224-3121.
"What do I say?" you ask?
Simple: Ask for the legislative aide who deals with public lands issues. Tell them you are from (your state) and let them know that you want Representative (your representative) to vote against HR 1745 when the bill comes to the floor for a vote. (If you are interested in more specific points about the bill please see below.) They may ask for your address so they can respond to your request at a later date. The call will not take more than 2 minutes. The next step is to ask five of your friends to do the same. It's that simple!
SPECIFICS
We are using the following main arguments to counter assertions by Utah Representatives Hansen and Waldholtz's that this is a real wilderness bill and exclusively a Utah issue:
1- This is a national, not a Utah exclusive issue. The land that is under consideration is federal public land not state land. The issue has national implications. All future wilderness designations will be affected. The short run developmental mind set of the Utah delegation should not take precedence over the larger national issue.
2- The bill contains arguably the most glaring anti-wilderness provisions ever presented in the guise of a wilderness bill. HR 1745 would designate just 1.8 million acres of a potential 5.7 million acres of wilderness quality land.
3- The unprecedented "hard release" language of the "Utah Public Lands Management Act" would open the balance of 22 million acres of BLM land in Utah to development. HR 1745 would mandate that lands not designated as "wilderness" be managed exclusively for "non-wilderness" uses which include, among other things, mining, oil drilling, road construction, orv use and tourist development. The bill also removes the possibility of re-considering any of these lands for wilderness protection at a later date. This release language is unprecedented in the more than 100 wilderness bills enacted by Congress.
4- HR 1745 contains numerous exemptions to the 1964 Wilderness Act which threaten the very definition of wilderness. These atrocities include: an allowance for future construction of dams, roads, transmission lines, communication sites, and pipelines within designated "wilderness;" allowances for unlimited access by motorcycles, cars, and heavy equipment to facilities that may have long since been abandoned; an express denial of federal water rights; and prohibitions that prevent the federal government from closing any road, including federal right-of-ways, within designated "wilderness" without the permission of the state of Utah.
5- Unless defeated, "The Utah Public Lands Management Act" will force a federal-state land exchange, not on an "equal value" basis as federal law prescribes, but rather on an acre-for-acre basis. This fiscally irresponsible language will rob US taxpayers by giving the state of Utah large, consolidated, and mineral-rich blocks of land, like the unique Kaiparowits Plateau, in exchange for the fragmented acre equivalent in state owned lands.
6- This bill does not adequately represent the citizens of Utah. In the public hearings held by the delegation in Utah and during the public comment period to Governor Leavitt, the majority of those speaking at the hearings and responding to the Governor's office supported Representative Maurice Hinchey's (D-NY) bill, HR 1500, which offers real protection to Utah Wilderness. In fact, 73% of the comments received by the Governor's office were in support of HR 1500 over HR 1745.
In this fight to save the last great wild lands of the west, you are extremely powerful as you represent constituent votes. Please do your part to save America's Redrock Wilderness.
For more information contact:
Dan Smuts, Sierra Club (202) 675-2385, dansmuts@sierraclub.org or Liz McCoy, Utah Wilderness Coalition, (202) 675-7919, lizmccoy@sierraclub.org or Tom Price, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, (202) 546-2215, cloud@capaccess.org
ACTION ALERT .. ACTION ALERT .. ACTION ALERT ..
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tom Price|Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance|Washington,DC office (202)-546-2215 vox (202)-546-4392 fax (202)-265-5185 home ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2. Re: George Miller
From: Adam Vandewater
I wonder if George Miller, President of the Mining Association of Canada, is aware of Noranda Co.'s outrageous mine site proposal 2 miles from the border of Yellowstone park. If all member companies agree to a base level of environmental policy, I wonder if they must then comply to that platform in their activities outside of Canada. Noranda Co.'s proposed New World Mine is one such example that I am sure everyone involved in mining issues is aware of. This gold mine in Southern Montana stradles three Yellowstone River watersheds, sits atop a travel route for the threatened grizzly bear, borders America's first national park, is located in the nation's second greatest seismic-risk area (next to California), and proposes to "entomb" its acidic mine waste slurry in a tailings impoundment the size of 70 football fields and held by a 100-foot tall earthen dam, according to the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. Is this abiding by a policy of social and environmental awareness? Or are American-based mines exempt from the statutes of the Mining Association of Canada? I would be curious to learn more. Sincerely, Adam Van de Water, Tax & Appropriations Fellow, Friends of the Earth, Washington, DC.
My email address can be included but the real sources of information on Noranda are the Greater Yellowstone Coalition (gyc@desktop.org) in Bozeman, MT and the Mineral Policy Center
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3. Natural Resources Defense Council's
STATE OF NATURE December 8,1995
Mining-related excerpts
== ALERT! == On 12/6, President Clinton vetoed the budget reconciliation bill. This bill would have, among other things, opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling and given away billions of dollars in valuable minerals to foreign mining companies. Call the President at 202-456-1111 to thank him for his veto and encourage him to veto this and other budget bills again and again until they are cleansed of their many special interest riders.
On 10/26, the House approved a bill (H.R. 2491) that allows multi-national mining companies to buy public land for as little as $2.50 an acre, allowing these companies to take away millions of dollars while leaving behind environmental destruction.
Utah Development
= N O T E ! = On 12/6, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved a bill (S. 884) that would open up 20.2 million acres of public land in Utah to strip mining, off-road vehicles, dams, power lines and communication towers. The House Resources Committee approved a similar bill (H.R. 1745) on 8/2.
3)WHAT YOU CAN DO
Many people wonder if there's any point to contacting their members of Congress. The answer is an emphatic "yes."
The average citizen can make a difference. Hand-written letters, faxes, phone calls and email are very significant: if a lawmaker gets fifty calls a day on a certain issue, that makes a big impression.
So contact your Representative and Senators regularly and let them know what you think about legislation that endangers our environment and public health -- especially when bills are coming up for a vote. If you do not feel you know enough about the specific legislation, make these general points (but USE YOUR OWN WORDS):
...Congress has no mandate to roll back a quarter-century of environmental.
...You support stronger environmental laws.
...You oppose any law that gives polluters more rights while leaving your family and natural heritage more vulnerable to pollution.
...You will follow their voting closely.
WHERE TO CALL: The Capitol Switchboard number is 202-224-3121. Ask to be connected to the office of your Representative or Senator.
WHERE TO FAX: Call the Capitol Switchboard and speak to the office of your Congressperson. Tell them you are a constituent and need their fax number.
WHERE TO WRITE:
The Honorable ___________ United States Senate Washington, D.C. 20510
The Honorable ___________ United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515
WHERE TO EMAIL: Most members of Congress still do not have email addresses, but some do, and the number is growing. A well-maintained list (with phone and fax information as well) can be found on the World Wide Web at http://ast1.spa.umn.edu/juan/congress.html.
4)ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION
"State of Nature" is a bulletin from the front lines of the environmental protection movement, published by the Natural Resources Defense Council. Our initial focus is anti-environmental legislation, inspired by the Contract with America, that is currently sweeping through Congress. Later, we'll expand our coverage.
The information in this bulletin -- and more -- is also available at our World Wide Web site -- http://www.nrdc.org/nrdc.
If you received this bulletin second-hand and would like to have it mailed directly to your email address, join our mailing list by sending email to majordomo@igc.apc.org with "subscribe nrdc-news" in the body of the message. To unsubscribe, send email to majordomo@igc.apc.org with "unsubscribe nrdc-news" in the body of the message.
If you would like background information on the Contract's implications for the environment, see our in-depth report, "Breach of Faith." Just send email to our automailer -- nrdc-breach@igc.apc.org.
If you would like background information on the threat to our public lands, see our in-depth report, "Selling Our Heritage." Just send email to our automailer -- nrdc-selling@igc.apc.org.
If you would like background information on Congress's sneak attack on the environment through the budget process, see our in- depth report, "Stealth Attack." Just send email to our automailer -- nrdc-stealth@igc.apc.org.
If you would like the inside story on how Congress's proposed science funding cuts will harm the environment, see our in-depth report, "Formula for Failure." Just send email to our automailer -- nrdc-formula@igc.apc.org.
For more information about NRDC our how to become a Member of NRDC, please contact us.
Natural Resources Defense Council 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011 212-727-4511 (voice) / 212-727-1773 (fax) nrdcinfo@nrdc.org
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
4. Excerpts from GREENLines
a. Issue #16: NO PEOPLE?
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 12:44:44 -0500
From: GREENLines Issue #16
GREENLines, Tues. Dec. 12, 1995, from GREEN, the Grassroots Environmental Effectiveness Network. Call (202)789-2844x288 or e-mail rfeather@clark.net. This issue written by Jim Jontz.
NO PEOPLE?: The vision environmentalists have of the future is a North America "reserved for plants and animals, but not for human beings," William Perry Pendley of the Mountain States Legal Foundation told the Northwest Mining Federation last week. The Coeur d'Alene ID Spokesman Review reported that Joseph Bayless of the Crown Butte mining company told the group that environmentalists ran an "end around" by securing the designation of Yellowstone National Park as a "World Heritage in Danger" by the UN associated World Heritage Committee. The committee toured the area near Yellowstone this fall where the New World mine is planned, and concluded that the mine presents a significant threat to the park.
------------------------------------------------
4. Excerpts from GREENLines
b. Issue #17: INTERIOR AGREEMENT WETLANDS CURB
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 12:44:44 -0500
From: GREENLines Issue #16
GREENLines, Tues. Dec. 13, 1995, from GREEN, the Grassroots Environmental Effectiveness Network. Call (202)789-2844x288 or e-mail rfeather@clark.net. This issue written by Jim Jontz.
INTERIOR AGREEMENT: Members of the conference committee on the Interior Appropriations bill reached agreement late Tuesday on a conference report which could reach the House floor today or tomorrow. Congress Daily reports that the agreement "satisfies moderate Republican objections on logging in Alaska's Tongass NF and mining on public lands." The new agreement would allow no "new restrictions" on Tongass logging for two years and would give the go-ahead to previously approved timber sales, CD says. Sen. Slade Gorton said he may reach a deal today with the White House on what further changes President Clinton would require to sign the bill.
WETLANDS CURB: "Buried deep in a spending bill" now before Congress are two sentences which would take away "one of the EPA's major tools for protecting the country's wetlands," the New York Times reported today. The HUD/VA/EPA appropriations bill, expected to be voted on by the Senate soon, includes a rider which would stop the EPA from vetoing permits that the Army Corps of Engineers issues to developers for wetlands projects. "The bill's 73 words on wetlands have rated only the briefest mention during a raging Congressional debate," the article says. "But the effect of the provision could be felt nationwide." The Times mentions a highway in NH, channel dredging in SC, and the proposed New World Mine near Yellowstone NP as cases where wetlands loss may occur if EPA's veto is removed.
[List-owner note: the proposed Exxon/Crandon mine in north Wisconsin could be prevented or permitted by the U.S. Army Corps. If the HUD/VA/EPA appropriations bill is passed with its 73 words on wetlands intact, the Army Corps would very likely decide to permit the proposed mine.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
5. House Votes to Retain Mining Moratorium! Budget Bill Threatens to Renew Giveaways
From: Mineral Policy Center December 13, 1995
The House of Representatives voted today in favor of continuing the moratorium on mineral patent giveaways. By a 244-181 margin, the House approved the FY '96 Interior Appropriations Conference Report which contained provisions to renew the moratorium on issuing mineral patents under the 1872 Mining Law. Earlier this fall, a bi-partisan majority in the House twice refused to approve the Interior bill specifically because it did not contain the patenting moratorium.
"We are pleased that the House has stood firm and insisted on retaining the moratorium. However, there are pernicious provisions hidden in the massive Budget Reconciliation bill that would kill this moratorium and reopen the giveaway floodgates," said Jim Lyon, Vice-President for Mineral Policy Center.
The Reconciliation Bill contains the mining industry's "sham mining reform" package. If enacted, this bill would end the moratorium and continue the giveaway of over $15.5 Billions of dollars minerals for a fraction of their true value. Last week, the President vetoed the Reconciliation bill, citing mining giveaways as one of the reasons.
Mineral Policy Center 1612 K Street, NW, Suite 808 Washington, DC 20006 PH: 202-887-1872 FX: 202-887-1875 Contact: Jim Lyon
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
6. Mining and pesticides
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 17:04:48 -0800
From: PANNA InfoPubs
Dear Alice,
We received your email message requesting information about the links between pesticides and mining, and unfortunately we haven't published any reports or articles dealing with these links. However, I will give you an overview of what types of links occur to me, and I could possibly research one or more of them if you would like. Also, if you are located near San Francisco, you would be welcome to visit our library and make use of our resources. If you want us to do the research, however, we do charge fees. Please see fee schedule below.
Surely there are links in the broad sense between these two industries in that both engage in extractive, unsustainable activities and both cause pollution, health and environmental problems. Certain pesticides are mined (as in heavy metals and sulfur) and others require minerals that are mined (as in bromine salts used in methyl bromide). There may also be links between some companies that mine and also produce chemicals, although I doubt we have much information that would cover industry mining operations. Finally, there are many connections between fertilizer production and mining (in fact, the Sunday New York Times, December 10, 1995, has an article about phosphate mining in Naurau in the South Pacific). However, we keep very little information on fertilizer production and use.
In briefly looking through our library for information about sulfur, I found that the U.S. produced 12.7 million tons of sulfur in 1990. I don't know how to determine how much of that was used in agriculture, but sulfur is the number one cause of pesticide related health problems for agriculture workers in California. In 1992 California agriculture used 61.8 million lbs. of sulfur.
If you know of particular materials that you know are mined and that you believe are used in or as pesticides, please let me know -- I can easily determine the quantity used in California. Other states and countries are another matter, however.
Please let me know if you have further questions,
Sincerely,
Adam Kirshner, Information Program Associate Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) email panna@panna.org
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
7. Wisconsin Bill Re: Issuance of metallic mining permits for the mining of sulfide ore bodies
Alice McCombs
Here it is -- a well-crafted bill designed to protect Wisconsin from the unsafe metallic sulfide mining. If your city, state, region, or country could be affected by a proposed metallic sulfide mine and does not have a law like the following one, you might consider taking a copy of this proposed law to your legislators.
This bill, introduced yesterday, is sponsored by Wisconsin Representative Spencer Black and other state lawmakers, backed by a coalition of sportsmen's groups, Native American tribes and environmental organizations.
From the Mining Impact Coalition of Wisconsin Inc. December 13, 1995
State of Wisconsin 1995-1996 Legislature
1995 Bill
1. AN ACT to amend 144.85 (5) (a) 1. (intro.), and to create 144.851 of the statutes relating to: issuance of metallic mining permits for the mining of sulfide ore bodies.
---
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law prohibits mining for metallic minerals without a mining permits issued by the department of natural resources (DNR). This bill prohibits DNR from issuing a metallic mining permit for the mining of a sulfide ore body until DNR determines that a mine has operated in a sulfide ore body in the United States or Canada for at least 10 years without polluting groundwater or surface water and that a mine that operated in a sulfide ore body in the United States or Canada has been closed for at least 10 years without polluting groundwater or surface water. For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
---
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 144.85 (5) (a) 1. (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
144.85 (5) (a) 1. (intro.) Except as provided in par. (b) and s. 144.851 and except with respect to property specified in s. 16.21 (11), within 90 days of the completion of the public hearing record, the department shall issue the mining permit if it finds:
SECTION 2. 144.851 of the statutes is created to read:
144.851 Moratorium on issuance of permits for mining of sulfide ore bodies.
(1) In this section, "sulfide ore body" means a mineral deposit in which metals are mixed with sulfide minerals.
(2) Beginning on the effective date of this subsection....[revisor inserts date], the department may not issue a permit under s. 144.851 for the mining of a sulfide ore body until all of the following conditions are satisfied:
(a) The department determines, based on information provided by an applicant for a permit under s. 144.85, that a mining operation has operated in a sulfide ore body in the United States or Canada for at least 10 years without polluting groundwater or surface water from acid drainage at the tailings site or at the mine site or from the release of heavy metals.
(b) The department determines, based on information provided by an applicant for a permit under s. 144.85, that a mining operation has been closed for at least 10 years without polluting groundwater or surface water from acid drainage at the tailings site or at the mine site or from the release of heavy metals.
(3) This section applies without regard to the date of the submission of the permit application.
........................................................
If you live in Wisconsin and would like to support this bill, call the Wisconsin legislative hotline toll-free 1-800-362-9472 to leave a message for your Wisconsin legislators. Or send mail to your State Senator and Assembly Representative, Madison, WI 53702. Please cc a copy to Alice McCombs (address below).
If you live outside of Wisconsin and would like to support this bill, send your comments to Alice McCombs (address below).
---
EarthWINS Daily is a publication of Mining-exchange.
Feel free to distribute information contained in EarthWINS Daily as long as: (1) the information is copied in its exact form, (2) the author, publisher, and date of the information is cited, (3) EarthWINS Daily is cited and (4) subscription information for Mining-exchange [included below] is included with the citation.
Mining-exchange is an international email listserv dedicated to helping people who resist unsafe mining in their neighborhoods share information about their strategies, mining, and mining corporations. To subscribe to Mining-exchange: send an email message to: majordomo@igc.apc.org with message: subscribe mining-exchange
Mining-exchange welcomes information about mining for publication in EarthWINS Daily. If you subscribe to mining-exchange, send email information to: mining-exchange@igc.apc.org If you are not a subscriber or have non-email information to contribute, please send it to Alice McCombs, at the FAX/address below. Thank you!
Mining-exchange comes to you courtesy of Institute for Global
Communications (IGC), the home of Econet, PeaceNet, ConflictNet. For more
information about IGC, send email to
When EarthWINS, Everybody Wins!
---
"People have the power to redeem the work of fools." Patti Smith
For Mother Earth. . . I For Humanity. . . / | \ | Alice McCombs W ----o---- N P.O. Box 573 | Shawano, WI 54166 \ | / S FX: 715-524-9958 Email: amccombs@mail.wiscnet.net
PEACE
--- ```
This web service brought to you by Somewhere.Com, LLC.