Heads-Up Wisconsin !!! - ALEC And Walker About To Rape The Evironment !!!

[WillyT]

Gold Diggers and Indians
Republicans want to have their way with Wisconsin’s buried gold, but the Anishinaabe aren’t having it.
BY JOEL BLEIFUSS - InTheseTimes
JANUARY 2, 2013

President Barack Obama carried Wisconsin by 52 to 46 percent—winning the state by more than 200,000 votes. Yet, curiously, the Wisconsin Republican Party solidified its control of both the Wisconsin state assembly and senate. It is now certain that Gov. Scott Walker (R) is in a position to turn his state’s natural resources over to the corporate bag men who helped make that victory possible.

The Wisconsin Mining Association (WMA) puts it this way: “Today, some of the richest mineral deposits in our country lie buried under Wisconsin and thousands of good jobs are buried there with them.”

The WMA backs Assembly Bill 426. Republican members on the Jobs, Economy and Small Business Committee wrote this legislation in 2011 to bypass environmental regulations, and to eliminate local input and control of the mining industry. The GOP legislators who wrote that bill were members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)—a secretive association of corporate representatives, right-wing think tanks and state legislators that promotes “model legislation.” The bill passed the assembly on Nov. 26, 2012, and will soon fly through the state senate.

Assembly Bill 426 was expressly crafted for the Cline Group, a Florida-based mining conglomerate that claims to want to establish an open pit taconite iron ore mine in the Penokee Mountains—a natural wonder that Backpacker magazine calls “the Alps of Wisconsin.”

The Indians are not the not only ones questioning the wisdom of the proposed mine. Dick Thiede of Mercer, Wis., writes the Woodsperson blog. He is a 72-year-old engineer who sold his company that built automated machinery and then retired to the Northwoods, Thiede has steeped himself in the proposals for the Penokee mine for the past 20 months. “Every road I have gone down indicates that there is something really fishy going on,” he says. “I have talked to hundreds of people—people at the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Forest Service, geologists of all kinds. I am not sure what Gogebic Taconite [the Cline Group mining subsidiary that says it wants to build the mine] is up to, but I don’t think it is mining iron ore.”

Thiede maintains that the geological location of the Penokee’s iron deposits makes open pit iron ore mining financially unfeasible. So what’s going on?

Much More: http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/14289/gold_diggers_and_indians

[Angry Dragon]

1. Dictator Walker up to his dirty deeds again

[ewagner]

2. It's a pending nightmare...

I talked with Senator-elect Tom Tiffany a few weeks ago...he's going full bore with this POS* legislation...and here's what it will do:

http://www.wivoices.org/2012/08/14/absence-of-science-on-mining-legislation-wiggins-says/

*POS = piece of $hit

[WillyT]

3. Thank You For That Link

[northoftheborder]

4. These mining projects are crimes against humanity.

[gelsdorf]

5. Keep you eye on

The Koch brothers and water, that's the BIG picture

[Frustratedlady]

6. He also mentioned T. Boone Pickens and Ted Turner

as buying up water rights. We also can't forget George W. for doing the same with his humonguous land grab of a few years ago south of the US.

Cut off our water, they rule the world.

[WillyT]

7. Kick !!!

[DearHeart]

8. This is in part because the people in Wisconsin didn't removed this POS during the recall!!

You had to know that he was going to take that as it being ok to shove all of this BS downs the throats of the Wisconsinites...they gave him the ok by not recalling him.

We need to keep our eyes on this, the Keystone Pipeline and what's going on in Canada too. What goes on up there could spill over down here. PM Harper seems to have the same agenda.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/06/canadian-pm-first-nations-protests