This is hard rock mining. Is this what we want in our Public Lands

 

Current Action Items:

Forest Service Comment period for Rosemont project!!

Letter to Forest Service: Plea to save 33,000 mature trees, wildlife habitat and recreation region
.

Save our trees: Oak Flat and Rosemont Ranch

Grand Canyon saved from mining for 20 years!

Report to House Natural Resource Committee regarding Oak Flat

Dept. of Energy Report: Copper is not needed for wind turbines (Pg. 64)

Save Devil's Canyon, Oak Flat and Apache Leap from mining

Correspondence with Pres. Obama regarding PLO 1229

Current mining jobs in Arizona

Mining Law Reform Issues:

What is the problem?

That was THEN!

This is NOW!


Watch National Geographic video on mining reform!

National Geographic article on mining reform!

What is the obstacle?

Donations Senators of 109th Congress received from mining corporations.

Senator John McCain receives and deceives with land swaps, destroying forests and costing taxpayers billions!

Who benefits?

 

Who loses?

 

Why NOW?

A plea for sanity in forest management in Arizona

Forest Service Reply: What do you think?
Is Forest Service doing what they say they were created to do?

—New report: Environmental Justice & the Survival of a People: Uranium Mining & the Oglala Lakota People

—Report to U.S.Congress on urgency of reform

—See YouTube on urgency of reform
—See YouTube: Poison Wind


THE ORIGINAL 1872 LAW

 

THE HISTORICAL PROCESS

 

THE PRESENT REFORM

The Rahall bill HR 2262 passed the House of Representatives on November 2, 2007 with a vote of 244 - 166.

All of the AZ Democrats voted "yes." 

Good work to all!  Now on to the Senate!

How did your Rep vote?

Current News Releases including from New York Times, Salt Lake City Tribune, AP, National Geological Society

Victory in Colorado for water and public accountability on mining

Information on proposed Uranium mining at Grand Canyon

Groundwater Awareness League comments on withdrawal

Groundwater Awareness League comments on withdrawal—second phase

Data on mining impacts, including Sierrita and Rosemont

Information on Superior—Apache Leap, Oak Flat, Devil's Canyon—proposed mine

The Reality—still not convinced? Check out this photo album!

Contact Nancy Freeman
dataminer [at] mining-law-reform.info

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