Comments on: The Mining Industry's Legacy http://www.savethewildup.org/blog/the-mining-industrys-legacy/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:03:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: mike monte http://www.savethewildup.org/blog/the-mining-industrys-legacy/#comment-3760 mike monte Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:49:24 +0000 http://www.savethewildup.org/blog/the-mining-industrys-legacy/#comment-3760 We listened to the same rhetoric here in Wisconsin with the Crandon mine project. Reading the mining company crap is deja vu. They always say that they have just met the toughest mining laws in the country, but the truth is that they will spend more on your politicians than they would ever be willing to spend cleaning up their mess once the ore is gone. We are a pretty easy country to deal with. A foreign company can come in, and for a pittance in taxes, compared with their revenues, and a promise of jobs for a few years, they will forever alter the landscape, leave us the mess, and take our resources out through Canada, so we can buy them back. We won this battle in Crandon, Wisconsin, but it took years of perserverance and the realization for the politicians that if an environmental disaster happens on their watch, it will taint them forever, affecting their precious careers and future advancement 'serving' the public. Keep up the pressure. We listened to the same rhetoric here in Wisconsin with the Crandon mine project. Reading the mining company crap is deja vu. They always say that they have just met the toughest mining laws in the country, but the truth is that they will spend more on your politicians than they would ever be willing to spend cleaning up their mess once the ore is gone.

We are a pretty easy country to deal with. A foreign company can come in, and for a pittance in taxes, compared with their revenues, and a promise of jobs for a few years, they will forever alter the landscape, leave us the mess, and take our resources out through Canada, so we can buy them back.

We won this battle in Crandon, Wisconsin, but it took years of perserverance and the realization for the politicians that if an environmental disaster happens on their watch, it will taint them forever, affecting their precious careers and future advancement 'serving' the public.

Keep up the pressure.

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