Hi All,
Here in this part of the world, we're dealing with a new ASARCO venture that will
effect Pend d'Oreille and all tributaries throughout the region... along with
Smelterville, Kellogg mine tailings now Superfund (and failing due to lack of
congressional funding and reauthorization of Superfund). What a mess, major
problem with soils, water, barren from lead/zinc overload. Lead blood levels are
through the roof in resident's bodies (beyond chelation). Today volunteers are
still taking blood samples from children after 13 years of this site being shut
down. Berkely Pits in Montana, where the pH level of water rising at headwaters
of the Columbia is what? close to that of battery acid? Birds die on site at the
drop of a wing into this water. The locals have turned it into a tourist
attraction but refuse to say how dangerous it is and become mighty antsy if
anyone dare ask.
One of the problems Idaho faces that Montana is about to face is that the state
of Washington has finally determined it's in the best interest of it's citizens
to sue both of these states for lax laws on the mining front. I hope they stick
to it and force our state legislators to reevaluate industrial mining, or at
least incorporate all costs, all hard costs down the line to the price of
extraction. That's the biggest problem, as I can see is that yes, we use the
products from this extraction industry, but we hardly come close to the actual
cost. This must be factored in or the industry must cease. It is not rational,
not by any stretch of the imagination to continue for even one more day the way
we have in the past.
http://www. dawnwatch.org
Owen Berio and Spokane tribe issues dealings with residual. There are others, so
many. But the Kellogg area is a definite example of the finest the mining
industry has to offer, worth an overnight visit to tour the site.
/d
Jake A Paisain wrote:
> For info on this subject in Montana, where we have one of the largest
> superfund sites in America, please refer to the Clark Fork Pend d'Oreille
> coalistion's homepage at:
>
> http://www.clarkfork.org/
>
> they can direct you further.
>
> jake paisain
> missoula, montana
>
