mining
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
Along with a Federal warning about meddling with Wisconsin's mining and water-management procedures, and trip to Sprawlville to see and photograph the new Interchange to Nowhere:
Can't tell players in mining battle without a scorecard; Who has Big Mo?
Scott Fitzgerald blinked, or caved, or whatever you want to call it.
But he has backed off and appointed the three Democrats nominated by Minority Leader Mark Miller to a special State Senate committee on mining.
Fitzgerald had rejected Miller's choices of Tim Carpenter and Jon Erpenbach, but now has named both to the committee, along with Bob Jauch.
Fitzgerald had tried to break long-standing Senate tradition of allowing each party to name its own members, hoping to get a committee that is more pro-mining. But with Republicans holding a 4-3 majority on the committee, it's a pretty safe bet the mining companies will get most if not all of what they want. Here's the announcement.
Meanwhile, a pro-mining group re-forms, and the Journal Sentinel continues to cover the issue like a sports event and writes about which side has the momentum.
Can't tell players in mining battle without a scorecard; Who has Big Mo?
Scott Fitzgerald blinked, or caved, or whatever you want to call it.
But he has backed off and appointed the three Democrats nominated by Minority Leader Mark Miller to a special State Senate committee on mining.
Fitzgerald had rejected Miller's choices of Tim Carpenter and Jon Erpenbach, but now has named both to the committee, along with Bob Jauch.
Fitzgerald had tried to break long-standing Senate tradition of allowing each party to name its own members, hoping to get a committee that is more pro-mining. But with Republicans holding a 4-3 majority on the committee, it's a pretty safe bet the mining companies will get most if not all of what they want. Here's the announcement.
Meanwhile, a pro-mining group re-forms, and the Journal Sentinel continues to cover the issue like a sports event and writes about which side has the momentum.
Easing Mining Laws Puts Wisconsin At Odds With Powerful Opponents
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
The Ashland Current has published the most detailed mainstream media account of the legal, scientific and procedural objections made by the
Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians to the efforts of state legislators and Gov. Walker to fast-track mining permit approvals.
You can read the paper's account and a full text of the Band's statement,
here.
I wonder if the Walker administration and its legislative lieutenants read and fully absorbed it.
The Band's full statement gives get a better sense of the depth and sweep of the opposition, and the legal challenges facing the state if it proceeds against the Band on behalf of mining companies who want the permit procedure streamlined and eased.
And you wonder if these state officials also have read
the US Army Corp of Engineers communication about the broader consequences of meddling with existing mining procedures?
Virginia Uranium Inc: Good Land Stewards?
Original Author:
Progressive86
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Cross-posted from Blue Virginia.
Here's a fabulously preposterous line from a full page ad released in the Danville Register and Bee on 9/28/2011 by Virginia Uranium Inc.:
For our company, stewardship of the land is more than a corporate principle; it is a deeply ingrained way of life that has sustained six generations of farmers, each striving to pass on this land in a better condition than they found it.
Better condition than they found it? How exactly do you dig up tremendous swaths of land and uranium ore and expect to leave the land "in a better condition?" Virginians in particular, and Americans in general, have seen this marketing game played before by natural resource pillagers, claiming on the one hand ideas of stewardship, intergenerational justice, and corporate social responsibility while kowtowing to the scriptures of capitalism. In effect, the consequence of the latter is a complete negation of the former, the complete dismissal of public-faced claims of stewardship.
Virginians should not and do not buy the land stewardship argument because it assumes that companies like Virginia Uranium Inc.
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