Go Deeper

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Have you ever wondered just how sulfide-ore copper mines pollute their surrounding environments? It’s a good question, because in order to understand the environmental impacts, we must first understand all of the ways sulfide-ore copper mining can cause harm to the surrounding lakes, streams, wetlands and forests. Independent studies show many vectors of pollution, and combined they create a significant risk of contamination.

Mining companies claim that metallic sulfide mining can be done in a way that would not pollute clean water.  But do these non-polluting mines exist? Can we see the proof?  

Join Dr. Steve Emerman as he walks us through his report on the Myth of Clean Mining. Dr. Emerman’s examination of other metallic sulfide mines across the country proves that this type of mining cannot be done safely.

A highly informative interview with Dr. Al Gedicks, emeritus professor at UW- La Crosse, about the historic and current challenges facing sulfide mining in the Midwest. 

The Mining Action Group is a volunteer, grassroots effort to defend the clean water and wild places of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula from the dangers of sulfide mining – previously known as Save the Wild U.P.

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Extractive industries are responsible for half of the world’s carbon emissions and more than 80% of biodiversity loss, according to the most comprehensive environmental tally undertaken of mining and farming.

Read more at The Guardian.

Directed by Michigander Jeff Gibbs and produced by Michael Moore, this mind-blowing documentary sheds a light on the dark side of the so-called "green energy revolution." Technologies like wind, solar, nuclear and biomass require tremendous amounts of environmental destruction and mining and, contrary to popular opinion, lead to more fossil fuel use rather than less.

We cannot simply oppose a copper mine without understanding the factors behind the desire to extract the mineral in the first place. Due to the recently passed Build Back Better Act and Defense Production Act, the United States is in the process of prioritizing domestic mining for the sake of the so-called "green energy revolution." Supposedly, technologies like wind, solar, etc. will reduce civilization's carbon footprint and lead to a more environmentally-friendly planet. But in "Green Illusions," Michigan engineer Ozzie Zehner reveals that in fact the opposite is true: in addition to requiring vast quantities of fossil fuels to produce, maintain, and decommission, alternative energy sources require mining on a scale unprecedented in the history of Planet Earth. 

This is the most cogent environmental work of the 21st century and should be required reading for all humans.

Two highly qualified Google engineers who have spent years studying and trying to improve renewable energy technology have stated quite bluntly that renewables will never permit the human race to cut CO2 emissions to the levels demanded by climate activists. Whatever the future holds, it is not a renewables-powered civilisation: such a thing is impossible.

Please study this chart carefully: Green tech purports to be different from traditional fossil fuels, but in fact the only real distinguishing trait is that the pollution required to generate it is outsourced and thus invisible.

Watch author and activist Max Wilbert's presentation to the Club of Rome, in which he unveils the environmental devastation which is fueling the current alternative energy gold-rush.

Far from creating a cleaner planet, electric cars require massive amounts of mining compared to conventional vehic. Environmentalists have always been opposed to mining and the use of batteries (which are highly contaminating upon disposal at the end of their short lifespans), but suddenly our movement has turned into the lobbying arm for billionaire technocratic corporations. We cannot oppose a new copper mine without simultaneously questioning the deeper agenda fueling the industry's profitability.