Wis. committee approves mining bill
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Assembly jobs committee has approved a Republican bill that would streamline Wisconsin's iron mining permit process.
The bill is designed to help Florida-based Gogebic Taconite open an iron mine just south of Lake Superior. The company insists the mine would create hundreds of jobs. Environmentalists fear the mine would pollute one the most pristine regions.
The committee made a number of changes to the bill during a hearing Tuesday, including raising a cap on application fees to $2 million, upping the amount of ore taxes local governments can retain, entitling American Indian tribes with land near mining sites to a copy of permit applications and ensuring the Great Lakes Compact trumps permitting statutes.
The committee approved the bill 9-5.
Jan 25, 2012 at 12:23 p.m.
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Yes bassman..... maybe moonshine could be your return trip to Kansas!
Jan 25, 2012 at 11:17 a.m.
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Is it true that this bill has no author or co-sponsors?
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Could it be that the repubs in the legislature don't want to their names tied to this bill come election time?
Jan 25, 2012 at 6:19 a.m.
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GoodAmerican
Jan 25, 2012 at 6:02 a.m.
Have another brew, kay. Your brew-induced ramblings are getting real old. "Pull a string, pull a string, pull a string, and set me up again
OH SNAP! GOTCHA MOUSE!!!! GOOD AMERICAN!!!
I KNEW YOU'D LOSE IT SOON ENOUGH
Jan 25, 2012 at 5:54 a.m.
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pull the string...the mouse says democrats embrass slaves to the welfare system and plantation politics.
Jan 25, 2012 at 5:43 a.m.
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When they get done taking the hills down in the Bloomer area those people will then be flat landers
Jan 25, 2012 at 4:52 a.m.
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STREAMLINE for Republicans means they really don't care about the environment - all about money.
Jan 25, 2012 at 1:55 a.m.
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OOps jobs for Wisconsin. Not right is it lefties
Jan 24, 2012 at 11:30 p.m.
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I have several friends who live in the Heyward area, that are staunch conservatives. They are almost unanimously opposed to this. They will be voting against anyone who supports this move. I can tell you now most of the residents that live up there are opposed to the destruction of the environment and it seems to supercede their partisan affiliation.
Jan 24, 2012 at 7:27 p.m.
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I think I will have to pursue a truck driving job ASAP. AHH The nort woods,PERFECT!!!
Jan 24, 2012 at 6:39 p.m.
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Don/t let Walker sell your kids into Kochland labor..... cheap and nasty.... low pay and mop and bucket benifits.
Jan 24, 2012 at 6:36 p.m.
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Kaysbrew wants slave labor.
http://bdgrdemocracy.wordpress.com/2011/...
Jan 24, 2012 at 6:35 p.m.
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Fedup wants slave labor?
http://bdgrdemocracy.wordpress.com/2011/...
Jan 24, 2012 at 6:31 p.m.
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tele78, spot on with your comment. The last minute "concessions" written into this bill are absolutely meaningless in preserving the integrity of the application process and protecting our ecosystems. Walker and the Republican control of the Senate has to go...now.
Jan 24, 2012 at 5:32 p.m.
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fedup - again your opinon is wrong. I voted for Walker, he has some good ideas but the WAY he goes about DOING is soooo wrong!
I posted before - I wish the republican party could put in a different candidate!
Jan 24, 2012 at 5:30 p.m.
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The biggest problem I see from some of those who are objecting to this fascist-driven legislation is that they are objecting not on the noble and just grounds of our free market democracy, but that they want in on the deal as well. They want their "cut" before they allow the rape to happen. What a shame.
Jan 24, 2012 at 5:22 p.m.
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Silly to argue about. The native Americans will immediately file suit in federal court.
Jan 24, 2012 at 5:11 p.m.
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wiggle wrote - bebe baby- I don't belong to a union, never have. Not a fan of unions but I'd prefer unions over a koch slave! I can't wait to vote again! This time I will GET IT RIGHT! Not to mention, my changing my vote has nothing to do with collective bargaining rights but everything to do with getting rid of an uneducated idiot!
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I doubt it - I think you are a union puppet in disguise. Just my opinion.
Jan 24, 2012 at 5:10 p.m.
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Do more research people. This "deal" is going to affect more than just the landscape. It violates an International Treaty with the area Tribes. Republicans only see $ signs, and don't see anything else. For ever job Walker creates, we lose 3-6 times as many.
http://wcmcoop.com/members/gogebic-tacon...
Jan 24, 2012 at 4:59 p.m.
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bebe baby- I don't belong to a union, never have. Not a fan of unions but I'd prefer unions over a koch slave! I can't wait to vote again! This time I will GET IT RIGHT! Not to mention, my changing my vote has nothing to do with collective bargaining rights but everything to do with getting rid of an uneducated idiot!
Jan 24, 2012 at 4:53 p.m.
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Wonders ... no. People want jobs and I too would support a mining venture ...but it's a local issue - and a serious environmental issue. The people up in Superior are the stakeholders, not Florida-based Gogebic Taconite. Again, as with all the republican legislation since Walker was elected, they have run roughshod over our representative democracy and replaced it with corporate fascism. They have betrayed the good people of Wisconsin.
Jan 24, 2012 at 4:37 p.m.
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Fabulous! It's about time we stick it to the environmentalists. After all, I get my water from bottle, what do I care if you middle class and poor folk have wonderful little nasties in your water? Funny.
Jan 24, 2012 at 4:22 p.m.
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Youkill me, So if they did not pass the bill then it would be all Walkers fault for not creating jobs. Talk about a now win situation
Jan 24, 2012 at 3:58 p.m.
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Why did mouse cross the street? Because he wanted to become a fiscally conservative republican.
Jan 24, 2012 at 3:55 p.m.
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Very happy to see the state working on jobs.
Jan 24, 2012 at 3:43 p.m.
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Wonder if mouse continues to pay his union dues so that his string always gets pulled
Jan 24, 2012 at 3:41 p.m.
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We gotta find the mouses a second site to go to. His brain has gotten all cheesy going to the wordpress. I am mouses hear me - no see me pull my see and say string. Funny so many strings. The Union puppet master - pulling mouses puppet strings - pulling the see and say string.
Jan 24, 2012 at 3:12 p.m.
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pull the see and say string. mouse is back with the usual..
pull....the mouse says brown bag!
Jan 24, 2012 at 3:08 p.m.
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http://bdgrdemocracy.wordpress.com/2011/...
Kaybrew....... Walker sold you to Koch. Pack your bag.
Jan 24, 2012 at 3:04 p.m.
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pull the see and say string. mouse is back with the usual..
pull....the mouse says...Koch bros!
Jan 24, 2012 at 3 p.m.
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, upping the amount of ore taxes local governments can retain,
To what 60%? Local governments used to keep all that money. Will the state reimburse the local governments for all the extra abuse their roads are in for?
Looks like another money grab by the GOP Governor,and his rubber stamp legislature.
Jan 24, 2012 at 2:56 p.m.
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@youkillme-sorry but I'm much too busy taking a stand against union thuggery,coercion and political bribery in attempts to maintain the welfare state
Jan 24, 2012 at 2:54 p.m.
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http://bdgrdemocracy.wordpress.com/2011/.............
gotta get these things through quick, before the Kochs dump Walker too!
Jan 24, 2012 at 2:42 p.m.
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bebe53, it takes one to know one. Get off your lazy duff and take a stand for Wisconsin against corporate fascism.
Jan 24, 2012 at 2:37 p.m.
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terrible thing to provide jobs-must be much better to be able to sit around,collect welfare benefits and drink stale beer all day.
Jan 24, 2012 at 2:27 p.m.
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"...a travesty of legislation...significantly weaken environmental protections...as if children had replaced Republican legislators...dump toxic waste into wetlands and flood plains...allow mining corporations to contaminate the groundwater of neighboring properties...allow mining operations to inflict significant damage to the environment...an act of political cowardice...an insult to the people of northern Wisconsin...
http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/yes......
Jan 24, 2012 at 2:19 p.m.
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Great News
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