To: The Wisconsin State House and The Wisconsin State Senate
Prevent WI & Great Lakes Ruin--Stop Mining, Nuclear/Haz Waste Import
Repeal "2013 WI ACT 1" mining law--it 'legalizes' environmental ruin & escape from liability. Act 1 gives mining companies rights to secrecy & legal means: to contract for the import of "all materials" (including nuclear waste) to mine properties, and to disenfranchise citizens, state & local governance of rights/authority, property & natural resources.
Why is this important?
I'm starting this petition because All People, and industries depend on the clean water for survival and recreation. I am a Wisconsin artist. Like many, I enjoy fish, wildlife, and the beauty and tranquility of the great out doors. The proposed GTAC mine in Wisconsin's pristine Penokee Mountains near Lake Superior and the Bad River Indian Reservation threatens WI, the Great Lakes bio-region, Native wild-rice-culture, and regional health. We have a responsibility to ourselves and future generations to protect the "commonwealth" of air, forests, land, waters and Life. "Treasures out & waste in" is a recipe for perpetual poisoning. Mining, and nuclear/hazardous waste trade for profit and jobs cannot justify the ruin of Life & Life sustaining resources for eons to come.