Billionaire C. Cline, owner of Gogebic Taconite Mining, has water pollution problems in Illinois
"Trust us," we're job creators.
I'm surprised the WMC/Greater Milwaukee Committee Journal-Sentinel is actually reporting this:
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency formally notified Macoupin Energy in December that it believes the company is dragging its feet with the cleanup at the Shay 1 mine in Carlinville, Ill., according to government documents.
The agency said it plans to refer the case to the Illinois Attorney General.
Macoupin is one of four mines owned in Illinois by billionaire Christopher Cline, who is proposing to build a $1.5 billion iron ore mine in Ashland and Iron counties if the Wisconsin Legislature rewrites mining laws to the company's satisfaction.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/owner-of-proposed-gogebic-mine-has-groundwater-problems-in-illinois-operation-l391f18-195554751.html
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...heard.
People are speaking up about the environmental record of the Cline Group and it's raised "red flags"
on what to do next, to develop mining projects... in Bhutan.
(Next to Nepal, adjacent to Burmal/Myanmar)
See:
http://www.savethewatersedge.com/cline-and-matthew-fifield.html
Now there is an American mining company willing to follow up on these finds and to explore the rest of the country with a few strings attached. In 2009, Kuensel reported that US-based Cline mining corporation is trying to gain mineral exploration rights for the entire country. J Matthew Fifield, managing director of the Cline Group, proposed he would get a group of American investors to invest in Bhutan’s mining sector “in a big way.” The Department of Geology and Mines (DGM), and Druk Holding and Investments (DHI) — through which Fifield communicated with the government — expressed interest in the proposal and were studying it, said the newspaper report...
... However, recent news reports out of the U.S. raise a red flag regarding the Cline Group’s past environmental record in its home country. For example, concerns are currently being expressed at public meetings by residents and environmental groups over a highly contentious proposal by the company for an open-pit iron mine, slated to destroy an ancient mountain range in Ashland counties, Wisconsin. Investigation of such past and present activities is clearly essential to establish a clear profile of any foreign company invited to participate in this country’s unique development strategy that can be a model for the world.
edit to add correction:
Bhutan is *not* between Nepal and Myanmar. Closer look at the map shows that's all India around it, the other countries are not adjacent, so it's located between India and China. Apologies to the good people of Bhutan and best of luck to them with the wise, cautious and forward-looking development of their mining resources.
If the public speaks out or not it has zero effect on him. 
PS: By the time the DNR & other agencies end their investigations & bring their lawsuits the coal or other raw commodity is mined & gone w/the damage done. Cline cares not...he is gone as well..on to the next pristine site to rape it. (BTW the jobs are gone also if only a few were created.)
.....in "....2006, based on a global survey, Business Week rated Bhutan the happiest country in Asia and the eighth-happiest in the world.
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/10/happiest_countries/index_01.htm
This is the seat of government:
I went over to the english language page of their leading news daily and saw a survey, asking public input on what to do about their national drinking water shortage.
So it's a place -- like the Penokee range and the wetlands of northern Wisconsin -- where environmental issues and the future stability and purity of the water supply must be valued highly.
I hope "King Coal" doesn't get a chance to screw them over.
