Mining in Wisconsin

Wisconsin faces a number of threats to our water, air, and culture from mining. At the top of the list is a proposal by Gogebic Taconite, a subsidiary of the Cline Group owned by coal magnate Chris Cline, to begin a 22-mile-long open pit iron mine in Ashland and Iron Counties of northern Wisconsin. The Penokee Mine would be near the headwaters of the Tyler Forks and Bad Rivers, upstream of the Bad River Ojibwe Reservation and the Kakagon Sloughs, the largest and ecologically richest wetlands complex on Lake Superior. Elsewhere in the state, Frac Sand mining is turning much of our rural countryside into quarry pits, contaminating the air with silica dust and pumping out massive amounts of groundwater, to provide a product necessary for the dangerous fossil fuel extraction process called hydrofracking. A sulfide mine is being developed along the Menominee River just on the Michigan side of the boder, and Canadian mining start-up Aquila Resources is prospecting for gold in sulfide deposits around northeast Wisconsin.

Carbon Free/Nuclear Free

Wisconsin can build an energy future that gives us affordable power, creates jobs and improves our environment. So why gamble on costly nuclear reactors that generate radioactive waste?

Wisconsin can be carbon free and nuclear free -- if we demand it!

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