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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 07:45 AM Original message |
Earth Day? 20-mile open pit mine proposed upstream of Great Lakes Basin largest undisturbed wetland |
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catgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 07:52 AM Response to Original message |
1. This madness needs to be stopped! n/t |
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badtoworse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 08:29 AM Response to Reply #1 |
12. How then should iron and steel be produced? |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 08:43 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. most of this will be shipped to china or india. |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 08:08 AM Response to Original message |
2. I'd like to know where Penokee Rambler gets "20 miles long." |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 08:09 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Do you have better info? I'd love to know the facts. n/t |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 08:19 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Sure. According to an economic impact study -- funded, of course, by the drilling company -- the |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 08:21 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Excellent! Thanks. "The open-pit mine would stretch roughly along four miles ... |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 08:33 AM Response to Reply #10 |
14. So maybe you should edit your subject line? |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 09:08 AM Response to Reply #14 |
20. I learned too late. Sorry. |
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Ellipsis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 09:13 AM Response to Reply #14 |
22. 4 miles WIDE ...22 miles long. "The First Phase" of the project is 4 to 5 miles |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 09:15 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Ah, good find! |
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Ellipsis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 09:24 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. "If" being the operative word there...we don't know what it's going to be. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 09:48 AM Response to Reply #22 |
27. Yes but it's the portion of land that's 22 miles long. |
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Ellipsis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 12:53 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. Who knows? Maybe they'll lease even more land... maybe they'll start mining for copper |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 05:47 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Four-five miles isn't bad for a taconite mine. And it takes awhile for the "gash" to get that big. |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 08:12 AM Response to Original message |
4. omg |
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eowyn_of_rohan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 08:15 AM Response to Original message |
5. "Creating jobs"... This is what draws so many hapless to the RW |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 08:21 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Which sums up, pretty much, why we have difficulty bringing them to "our" side. |
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eowyn_of_rohan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 08:49 AM Response to Reply #8 |
17. Pleasure Island |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 09:03 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Heh. If you're going to break it down as "right wing" and "left wing," the same could be said about |
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eowyn_of_rohan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 09:16 AM Response to Reply #19 |
24. YEs, my post was about RW and LW and how this is typically a divisive issue for us |
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eowyn_of_rohan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 11:30 AM Response to Reply #8 |
29. I regret not wording this differently |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 05:48 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. Thanks for the clarification. I appreciate it. |
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crickets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 08:17 AM Response to Original message |
6. ... |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 08:21 AM Response to Original message |
9. I'm sure Scott Walker will stand firmly against this, right? |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
11. I'll be honest with my loyalties here. |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 08:32 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Excellent. Glad to have an "expert" on the thread. Any sanity and connection... |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 08:59 AM Response to Reply #13 |
18. Oh, not an expert, at all. And I do admit my bias. |
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badtoworse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 08:35 AM Response to Reply #11 |
15. It doesn't matter what is proposed |
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catgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 09:11 AM Response to Reply #15 |
21. Who's screaming about high speed rail? |
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badtoworse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 10:59 AM Response to Reply #21 |
28. Talk to me after they've gotten the Rights of Way |
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eowyn_of_rohan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
26. This would violate a treaty with the Bad River Ojibwe |
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