Eric Hansen, an award-winning outdoors-writer, has written a beautiful op-ed in The Capital Times, based in Madison, WI. Save The Wild UP would like to thank Eric for his positive contributions to this issue and the effort he puts into helping Michigan folks and organizatuions network with our Wisconsin neighbors. It really helps to have support from those who have dealt with similar situations and in the case of Crandon…those who have triumphed!
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Why doesn't Save the Wild UP start giving directions to scientific papers about nickel mining projects and their environmental concern? It would do much more towards having a will informed public than political op eds. Michigan Tech has several professors that have expended great energy to become experts in the area mining's environmental impacts, Allan Johnson and Ralph J. Hodek to name two. Dr. Hodek has even been honored for his work by the American Association of Civil Engineers. Other organizations that post excellent information about mine environmental concerns are Colorado State University, University of British Columbia, US EPA, and Environment Canada. An excellent example of the type of operation that the eagle project is Xstrata Nickel's Montcalm mine. The City of Sudbury, Ontario is hosting an international conference "Sudbury 2007, Mining and the Environment" from October 19-26, and would be great opportunity for the local organizations to go and gain some knowledge of the mining industry's environmental management practices from true experts in the field. With all the real knowledge out there, one need not rely on op eds when the facts are readily available.
Thank you T. Williams,
I will look into the published work by the folks named above. I also encourage others to investigate on your own. If any readers are in the Marquette area and have subscriptions to scholarly journals or have conducted research of their own on AMD, metallic sulfide mining, environmental effects of mining, and economics associated with mining communities, we ask that you consider sharing that information through this website, by contacting us at info@savethewildup.org.
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