Rules and regulations are in place for a reason:
http://news.yahoo.com/ex-ally-implicates...

jcommon: The problem here is about environmental protection. You want to mine here, you follow the rules and regulations that are there for a reason. Otherwise take your mining elsewhere!

How many of you anti-mining posters watch Gold Rush on the Discovery channel? How come I don't see you protesting that show?

Here is the roll call on the mining bill:
AYES - 17
COWLES,DARLING,ELLIS,FARROW,FITZGERALD,GROTHMANGUDEX,HARSDORF,KEDZIE,LASEE,LAZICH,LEIBHAM,
MOULTON,OLSEN,PETROWSKI,TIFFANY,VUKMIR

NAYS - 16

CARPENTER,CULLEN,ERPENBACH,HANSEN,HARRIS,JAUCH, LARSON,LASSA,LEHMAN,MILLER,RISSER,SCHULTZ,
SHILLING,TAYLOR,VINEHOUT,WIRCH

We need to hold these 17 senators accountable, even after they've been voted out of office.
Here is an interesting article from ground zero:
http://www.ashlandwi.com/news/article_bb...

The people who voted for this should have their names put on a plaque at the entrance of this mine to be revisited in the years to come. I wonder how they would have voted if they knew this was the case?

I can't imagine that this will turn out good.

Another walker pet deal

Thought it was 2000 jobs now it's hundreds ?
As long as they make their kool-aid with ground water from there. Drink up that should open up a few more jobs in Madison.

As I have said before, the tribes hold the trump cards and I doubt that the mine will occur under this bill. Maybe under an amended one, but not this one.

They have been mining in Iron County for a hundred years. This is a great thing for the area and the people that live there.

It is a good thing for WI.

Fortunately this is also going to be reviewed by the federal government and the Army Corp of Engineers due to its proximity to waterways. The big argument is as Tim Cullen puts it is Where does the waste go? The republicans have relaxed the rules for the waste some much that the programs for dealing with the waste contamination after the corporations have left with the money will now be funded by the taxpayers. This is a bad as Jim Doyle's train. Something else that the Wisconsin taxpayer to fund.

Here come the jobs (for a limited time).... There goes the clean water and air (forever)...

Welcome to Wississippi....

Who the heck do these representatives think they are trying to relax environmental protections? Do they care at all about the well-being of citizens? This world is going to hell fast. The only thing that matters is money and power, no matter who gets screwed in the process.

Of course they did.

This doesnt mean a mine is coming, the tribes will be holding this up in court. If anyone has a legitimate argument here it would be them. Timm Cullen put it best, "This is about where does the waste go? It goes in the water, show me where else?"

Well, with the lock-step Assembly that we have, our environment is now dependent on Gogebic Taconite’s concern for our state and environmental well-being. Effective controls and oversite has been handed over to them. Feel good about that, do you?