The reclamation of Montana's hardrock mines will cost
billions, and is complicated by the fact that no one really knows
how to do it, or who should foot the bill.
Magazine
January 19, 1998
The reclamation of Montana's hardrock mines will cost billions, and is complicated by the fact that no one really knows how to do it, or who should foot the bill.
Feature
The Midnite Mine, a uranium mine on Washington's Spokane
Indian Reservation, would like to bury its high-level waste with
trucked-in low-level nuclear waste, a plan the Spokane tribe
protests.
Sidebar
The Superfund Law was created to make sure companies clean
up the messes they make, but the system has glitches.
Lloyd Harkins, who spent his early years working in
Montana mines, now devotes himself to salvaging and collecting the
industrial paraphernalia of hardrock mining, from ore cars to a
78-ft. tall head frame.
Plant physiologist Ray Brown works to help mining-damaged
ecosystems recover - with the help of a few hardy plant
species.
The old mining town of Anaconda, Mont., has turned a mine
dump into a designer golf course.
The story of Colorado's Summitville Mine is a story of
spectacular failures.
Some say the often-picturesque ruins of mining create a
historical landscape that has value whether there is pollution or
not.
The Sunnyside Mine near Silverton, Colo., is an unusual
example of a community working together with miners and
environmentalists to find a strategy to heal the damage.
Homestake Mining Company's McLaughlin Mine in Northern
California is an example of a mine designed with environmental
consequences in mind.
Essays
A long-time mining executive argues that many
environmentalists are hypocrites who want a 20th-century lifestyle
without paying for it, and he points out that the impacts of mining
simply get exported to Third World nations.
Book Reviews
"Golden Dreams, Poisoned Streams" by Carlos D. Da Rosa and
James Lyon, is reviewed by Heather Abel.
News
Former teacher Joni Clark begins a 30-day sentence for
tree-sitting in protest of Red Mountain Timber Sale in Colorado's
San Juan Mountains.
The controversial "road improvement" of the two-lane road
through Utah's Provo Canyon faces accusations that a new road could
damage the Provo River - even as four major landslides are caused
by road crews.
Conoco gives up on oil well in Utah's Grand Staircase, but
the state School Trust Lands board is insisting that its land -
checkerboarded through the monument - must be managed to earn money
for the schools, and that may involve oil and gas
drilling.
Taylor Ranch troubles continue; Tortolita, Ariz., under
attack; Clinton administration's "no surprise' policy on endangered
species suspended; non-residential property owners may vote near
Telluride, Colo.; Utah's legal marriage age may rise to
16.
Western conservatives in U.S. Senate, trying to destroy
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals because of its "liberalism,'
compromise on creating a commission to study the appeals court
system.
Environmental groups formerly at odds rally against Judge
William Downes' decision ordering the removal of all the introduced
wolves.
Congress authorizes storage of 50,000 tons of nuclear
waste at the Nevada Test Site despite protests and warnings of
environmentalists.
Heard Around the West
Stranded skier dances; Grand Junction, Colo., sheriff
victim of alcoholism disability; warhead smashes (empty) trailers
in Utah; teen kills deer by hand; NRA defends "Star Spangled
Banner'; paying overdue fines at wedding; bus riders on Colo.
82.
Dear Friends
Catching up on newspapers; HCN potluck in Tucson, Ariz.;
winter intern Michelle Nijhuis.
Letters
Opinion
In his own words, Dave Skinner argues that
environmentalists exaggerate the threat from mining and that the
industry is making good changes.
In his own words, Land Lindbergh argues that the mining
industry has dominated the political process, defeated adequate
standards, and needs to take responsibility for its
mistakes.
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