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Don't Weaken Mining Bill:
It's time for Congress to update 1872 mining law
Published: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 Register-Guard
If federal lawmakers are looking for reasons to reform the 1872 General Mining Act, they need look no further than the Champion and Black Butte mines south of Cottage Grove. Or the Formosa mine in Douglas County. Or any of the other polluted mine sites that pock and poison Oregon's back country... [more]
Mine Fix to Wait
Published: Sunday, October 14, 2007 Register-Guard
The only way to get the $5 million—or more—needed to clean up mercury pollution at Lane County's Black Butte mine and to make fish downstream in Cottage Grove Lake safe for children to eat is to put the site on the Superfund list of the nation's worst environmental disasters, federal officials said... [more]
Mining Reform
Cleanup efforts are costing millions of dollars, but it's not the mining companies that pay
By Diane Dietz, The Register Guard. Published: Sunday, October 14, 2007 Register-Guard
Taxpayers are on the hook for a $1.7 million cleanup at Champion mine in Lane County... [more]
Mine Cleanup Exposes Toxic Ooze
Published: Sunday, October 14, 2007 Register-Guard
The first problem an environmental engineer faced this summer at the old Champion gold mine was 2,000 cubic yards of the strangest sludge he'd ever seen... [more]
Rogue Rafters Encounter Acid Waters
By Diane Dietz, The Registe Guard. Published: Sunday, October 14, 2007 Register-Guard
Many of the 45,500 people who float the wild and scenic Rogue River in Southwest Oregon each year encounter an unpleasant problem just below the Almeda rifle... [more]
Register Guard Editorial
Published: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 Register-Guard
The bright orange streambed says it all. And so does a new federal Superfund listing for the poisons-spewing Formosa mine in Douglas County... [more]
Mine Listed as Federal Hazard
By Diane Dietz, The Register Guard. Published: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 Register-Guard
The toxics-spewing Formosa mine in Douglas County will make the national Superfund list Wednesday... [more]
Crusader Moves a Toxic Mountain
By Larry Bingham, The Oregonian. Published: Sunday, July 01, 2007 Register-Guard
Larry Tuttle drove all the way from Portland to a remote mountaintop in southern Oregon in 2000 just to see the mess, and it was worse than he'd expected. A toxic stream, flowing from a leak in the old Formosa Exploration Silver Butte Mine, spilled across a rutted dirt road toward Middle Creek, a stream once teeming with steelhead trout and coho salmon. Some of the PVC pipes and French drains meant to divert the poisoned water had clogged and overflowed. Stones in the water's path turned a rainbow of strange colors: pumpkin orange, squash yellow, eggplant purple... [more]
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