And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: via: "Wild Rockies Alerts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: GROUPS PUSH KEMPTHORNE ON ASARCO MINE PROPOSAL For Immediate Release March 24, 1999 GROUPS PUSH KEMPTHORNE ON NEW MINE PROPOSAL Contact: Scott Brown, Idaho Conservation League, Boise, 208-345-6933 Mary Mitchell, Rock Creek Alliance, Sandpoint, 208-265-8272 Boise -- The Idaho Conservation League and other groups today took out a full page ad in the Idaho Statesman calling on Governor Kempthorne to protect Lake Pend Oreille from ASARCO�s proposed Rock Creek Mine. "This mine threatens to pollute one of our great lakes and Idaho should demand assurances that the lake will be protected at all costs," said Scott Brown, state issues director with the Idaho Conservation League. "If the U.S. Forest Service can't guarantee protection of the lake's water quality, this mine shouldn't be built on public lands." "Opposition to this mine is 99 percent in Sandpoint and Bonner County, we expect the Governor and the Division of Environmental Quality to take that level of concern very seriously and act on it," said Mary Mitchell, Idaho director of the Rock Creek Alliance. "ASARCO has one of the mining industry�s dirtiest track records." The proposed mine is 25 miles upstream from Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho's largest lake. The copper and silver mine would be drilled underneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in Montana. Mine operations would dump up to 3 million gallons of wastewater every day into the Clark Fork River which flows into Lake Pend Oreille. The mine would also result in 100 million tons of waste being dumped over 300 acres along the Clark Fork River and scenic Highway 200. The U.S. Forest Service expects to make a final decision on the proposed mine this summer. The advertisement, paid for by the Idaho Conservation League, Rock Creek Alliance and Mineral Policy Center, coincides with the Andrus Center for Public Policy's Second Symposium on Federal Land Policy. Among the participants is U.S. Forest Service Chief Michael Dombeck. The ad asks Gov. Kempthorne to "please tell Chief Dombeck that Idaho will not stand for pollution in one of Idaho�s great lakes." -end- ************************************************************************ List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> News Submissions or Problems: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This list is a public service provided by WIN: http://www.wildrockies.org &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
