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  • Greenies vow to make mine owner ‘cower in fear’ (WI)

    07/10/2013 6:04:03 AM PDT · by afraidfortherepublic · 27 replies
    The Wisconsin Reporter ^ | 7-10-13 | Ryan Ekvall
    MADISON – Gogebic Taconite, LLC can tell you about the cost of doing business in Wisconsin. The mining company, which has spent more than $350,000 lobbying legislators to ease the state’s mining regulations, recently hired private security guards to patrol the northern Wisconsin site where it hopes to build a projected $1.5 billion iron ore mine. That added cost of doing business seems to be just what anti-industrialization, environmental group Earth First! intended. “Making the preliminary stages of this mine as expensive as possible to send a clear message to financiers that this is an extremely risky investment is one...