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Mountain-Top Removal Mining: Now Threatening Wisconsin!

2013-04-25 00:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Deep Green Resistance: A proposed iron mining effort would create the largest open pit mine in the world in northern Wisconsin.The 22,000 acres of mountain-top removal-style strip mining would potentially dump millions of tons of waste rock into the headwaters of the Bad River, polluting everything downstream including beautiful Copper Falls State Park, the Bad River Ojibwe Reservation, crucial wetland Kakagon Sloughs, and Lake Superior. Many local residents fear that the huge mine will eat into nearby sulfide-mineral...

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