SkyTruth has generated a gallery of satellite images showing what the mine site looks like now, and a series of simulations based on several versions of the mine development plan that have been published by the mining company, Northern Dynasty. A tip o' the hat to one of SkyTruth's talented volunteers, Andrew Vernon, who produced this simulation showing the most recent plan.
And another nod to Erin and Hig McKittrick for their excellent Pebble Mine website, including a blog, photo gallery, and interactive Google map of the Pebble Mine site and surrounding area. All in all, this is an outstanding example of the "ground truth" comment Paul discussed a few days ago. Expect to see a whole lot more of this in 2008!
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If you want to know what happens to old sludge dams from copper mines, you need to check out Iron Mountain in California, labeled this week as "the worst water in the world." Don't take my word for it: check out this EPA report:
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/programs/aml/tech/imm.pdf
And spread the word on this.
Also, I blogged on this topic today. See http://spmcrector.blogspot.com/
Thanks!
Reverend Richardson - thanks for this comment, and the links. Mining produces a lot of the things we need and want, but the industry has a bad habit of leaving colossal messes behind for us taxpayers to deal with.
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