I read about this but seeing it is a much more dramatic way of seeing the Repubs in action...

First time I've seen Chris Taylor speak...she is DYNO-MITE!!!

Who's the guy behind Taylor who keeps feeding his face?

Who is doing the clapping during this video and why are they clapping?

she is headed for greatness! love to see a passionate well-spoken advocate for the people! Not even from her own district, but for the citizens affected in the northern part of the state.

Honestly I would not mind a mine as long as the treaty obligations are met, we have some decent environment regulation and the mining companies are liable for damages. I remember last session after the mining bill was voted down in the senate and the mining company said they were done with Wisconsin. Mining companies have places to mine all over the world and when they mine they want zero liability. If people are concerned about the constitutionality of mining legislation then its all the more important to get Pat Roggensack off the bench.

There's no way to have the cake and eat it, too. The public noise coming from the mining company and the Republicans about 'maintaining environmental regulation and oversight' doesn't square with the known facts.

If built, this would be the largest open pit mine in the world.

Bigger than any of these:

http://www.losapos.com/openpitmines



It would be located between wetlands that have been referred to as 'the Everglades of Lake Superior' and the Lake.

Billions of tons of sulfide-rich waste overburden are located above the low-quality taconite "ore body."

The whole area is one big bowl, or basin.

The worst case scenario would be turning that big bowl into a giant vat of battery acid. (A "closed loop liquids system," as it's referred to by this very pro-business blogger.)

http://johntorinus.com/general-blog/business-and-government/closing-of-mining-office-doesnt-figure/

That worst-case scenario would be really bad for the Lake Superior Chippewa tribe members, local farmers, any other possible (not just recreational) use for the land, and the last clean Great Lake.

...Plus, if you really look at the poor quality of the taconite, the fluctuations in prices for iron ore and the mining company's lack of specifics, it's led some people to speculate that this mining bill isn't about taconite or iron ore mining at all. It's only a bait-and-switch distraction, a way to float the promise of "thousands of jobs" in order to deregulate legal oversight of mining in the state of Wisconsin. To make it easier (and cheaper) for other mining outfits to attack the water resources of this state with toxic chemicals, in sand fracking operations. That type of mining has become very profitable, but responsibility for environmental damage remains a potential liability.

More info here:

https://www.facebook.com/FracingInWisconsin/timeline?filter=3

http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/2012/12/what-frack.html