Midwest Mining Rush Threatens Water Series

Comments:  Uranium Mining will ruin our water, air and life!  I have been to the UP of Michigan, it is so pretty.  Keep the Ban in Virginia, stop ruining our water thru out America! November 29th, 2010 | Natural Resources News Service | Tiffany Danitz Pache     Midwest Mining Rush Threatens Water is a major investigative series on how foreign mining companies threaten the largest supply of fresh surface water in America as they begin to operate in the upper Midwest. In a video interview, reporter Tiffany Danitz Pache talks about her comprehensive six-part story.  In her reporting, she focused on the different approaches three states – Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota – have taken when confronting the same issues on how to protect clean water supplies.    Midwest Mining Rush Threatens Water: Part VI: Minnesota: This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land   Acid mine drainage from Spruce Road in Minnesota. Photo: Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness Midwest Mining Rush Threatens Water: Part V: Wisconsin, the “Prove It First” State Midwest Mining Rush Threatens Water: Part IV: Challenging the Mine Permitting Process November 15th, 2010 | Natural Resources News Service | Tiffany Danitz Pache     Midwest Mining Rush Threatens Water: Part III: Michigan: A River Runs Through It November 9th, 2010 | Natural Resources News Service | Tiffany Danitz Pache |     Lake Superior Coast at Copper Harbor, Michigan. Photo: Richie Diesterheft   On a span of Michigan’s storied Upper Peninsula that includes the largest ancient forest east of the Mississippi River, a sacred Native American site called Eagle Rock, the Salmon Trout River and the shores of Lake Superior   Midwest Mining Rush Threatens Water: Part II: Tourism vs. Mining November 4th, 2010 | Natural Resources News Service | Tiffany Danitz Pache   A dump truck driving along the Rio Tinto Kennecott Mine in Provo, UT. Photo: Phil Scoville   The disaster at Massey’s West Virginia Upper Big Branch mine is an example of unenforced regulations. Reports now show that safety inspectors were not given access to the mines that took the lives of 29 miners when it collapsed last April   Midwest Mining Rush Threatens Water: Part I: Foreign-owned Mining Companies vs. U.S. Regulators November 4th, 2010 | Natural Resources News Service | Tiffany Danitz Pache     Some of this nation’s most pristine ancient forests, glacial wetlands and fresh water lakes are under threat from large, multinational mining companies that plan to extract billions of dollars in copper and nickel using methods untested in a water-rich environment. The Great Lakes Basin – America’s largest supply of surface fresh water   Click here to read all the above:  for Page 1: http://www.dcbureau.org/?s=Midwest+Mining+Rush+Threatens+Water&submit_x=11&submit_y=21   Page 2:  http://www.dcbureau.org/page/2?s=Midwest+Mining+Rush+Threatens+Water&submit_x=11&submit_y=21