My nephew works for a company that does the study of environmental impact of mining in northern Wisconsin. He claims that for several decades the studies have shown that the impact of mining was not a negative one. The companies have promised to restore lands, etc. One company even promised to set up a water purification plant so that the ground water would actually be purer than what it had been prior to the mine. But the environmentalists rejected that because “the water was supposed to be exactly the way it was” before the mining; in other words purer water was a bad thing to these environmentalist wackos. They would rather live with dirty water.
Go figure. These folks are never going to compromise on anything because they are irrational.
All these leftists that are screaming about mining pollution are completely missing every year when the City of Milwaukee (Democrat run of course) dumps millions of gallons of human excrement into Lake Michigan after big rain storms...
The Left is rational in the sense that they are promoting the outcome they want, in this case using the environmentalist disguise.
Environmentalism isn’t about clean air or water; it’s about crippling the American economy to make the revolution inevitable.
It’s too bad that Gogebic can’t put out some sort of statement that the “compromise” bills would have put them in exactly the same spot they are today - with no mining in Wisconsin. It would put to bed the lie that Dems were “willing to support mining but for the environmental concerns”