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" As you may or may not know, up in Wisconsin, Governor Scott Walker -- see previous post for usual blog honorific -- and his pet legislature wrote themselves a mining bill that pretty much hands the northern part of the state over to a company called Gogebic Taconite for the purpose of digging an open-pit iron mine which, of course, will not impact the environment in the slightest because of the well-known affection that mining companies have for watersheds and tiny furred woodland creatures. The head of the company is a guy named Bill Williams. And Bill Williams will not be vacationing in Barcelona any time soon. Cobre Las Cruces, which has a major copper mine in southern Spain, has been accused of contaminating an aquifer in the area with arsenic. It&amp;#039;s not unusual to have problematic levels of arsenic in water when mining, but it&amp;#039;s not known whether that would be an issue with the Wisconsin mine, said Tom Evans, a retired geologist from the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. Problems, whether related to arsenic or other potential contaminants, can be properly mitigated, Evans said. &amp;quot;You have to design a project that will deal with that one way or another,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;There is no mining of these kind of deposits that are inherently safe. They all are inherently problematic, or dangerous, whatever word you want to use because you are disrupting things.&amp;quot; Well, I&amp;#039;m certainly reassured. Williams and two former co-workers were named in the investigation in a Seville court involving alleged environmental offenses by Cobre Las Cruces, according to a court document and a spokesman for the Andalusian Justice Tribunal, who spoke on condition of anonymity as required by his office&amp;#039;s policy. The Spanish mining company has not been charged, nor have Williams or the other two executives. The next step in the process is for a prosecutor to present the case to a magistrate overseeing the investigation, who will decide whether the executives should be charged and tried. Said it before, Wisconsin is the lab rat in the ongoing experiment to Mississippize America. Be advised. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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