Mining, Toxics, and Environmental Justice for the Anishinaabe
In 2011, a company named Gogebic Taconite (GTAC) formed in order to develop the largest open-pit mine in the world—just upstream of the Bad River Band’s reservation on Lake Superior. Owned by Cline Resources Development (a company largely focused on coal), GTAC announced that, even without experienc...
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cryaleupr:10.12987/yale/9780300212983.003.0006 2024-06-02T07:55:14+00:00 Mining, Toxics, and Environmental Justice for the Anishinaabe Langston, Nancy 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300212983.003.0006 unknown Yale University Press Sustaining Lake Superior ISBN 9780300212983 9780300231663 book-chapter 2017 cryaleupr https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300212983.003.0006 2024-05-07T14:19:42Z In 2011, a company named Gogebic Taconite (GTAC) formed in order to develop the largest open-pit mine in the world—just upstream of the Bad River Band’s reservation on Lake Superior. Owned by Cline Resources Development (a company largely focused on coal), GTAC announced that, even without experience in iron mining, it would mine and process Wisconsin’s taconite ore body to take advantage of Asia’s building and steel commodities boom. The mine would have been sited just upstream of the reservation boundary, and the waters flowing out of the mine site would have contaminated water, fish, and Indigenous communities living downstream. After a multi-year battle, the tribe managed to stop the mine. Book Part anishina* Yale University Press |
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In 2011, a company named Gogebic Taconite (GTAC) formed in order to develop the largest open-pit mine in the world—just upstream of the Bad River Band’s reservation on Lake Superior. Owned by Cline Resources Development (a company largely focused on coal), GTAC announced that, even without experience in iron mining, it would mine and process Wisconsin’s taconite ore body to take advantage of Asia’s building and steel commodities boom. The mine would have been sited just upstream of the reservation boundary, and the waters flowing out of the mine site would have contaminated water, fish, and Indigenous communities living downstream. After a multi-year battle, the tribe managed to stop the mine. |
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