Mining Claims Could Mar National Park And Wilderness Area Borders: Pew
"The Pew Environment Group says the Grand Canyon is especially at risk. Critics of the mining say an 1872 law gives companies 'carte blanche.'"
Source: LA Times, 04/15/2011
Natural Resources
"In Minnesota, Copper Mining Runs Afoul of Wild Rice"
"Wild rice is sacred to the Ojibwe of Minnesota, but that may not be enough to protect it from the promise of jobs that a new copper-nickel mining industry would bring to the state."
Source: AP, 04/15/2011
Fed Report: Most Oil and Gas Leases Unused
According to a Dept. of Interior report requested by Obama and released March 29, 2011, 70% of existing federal oil and gas offshore lease acres and 57% of all federal onshore leased acres are inactive, with no production, exploration or development.
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"This Land: As the Mountaintops Fall, a Coal Town Vanishes"
"To reach a lost American place, here just a moment ago, follow a thin country road as it unspools across an Appalachian valley’s grimy floor, past a coal operation or two, a church or two, a village called Twilight. Beware of the truck traffic. Watch out for that car-chasing dog."
Source: NY Times, 04/13/2011
"Debate Stirred Over 1st Major US Tar Sands Mine"
"Beneath the lush, green hills of eastern Utah's Uinta Basin, where elk, bear and bison outnumber people, the soil is saturated with a sticky tar that may soon provide a new domestic source of petroleum for the United States. It would be a first-of-its kind project in the country that some fear could be a slippery slope toward widespread wilderness destruction."
Source: AP, 04/11/2011
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