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What better way to celebrate the end of yet another school year than a day filled with eclectic live music and local food and drink for a costly price of nada? The Save the Penokee Springfest raised awareness of the effects of mining in northern Wisconsin, particularly the potential mine in the Penokee Mountains near Mellon, WI. The 12-hour-long festival ... Read More »

The Florida-based company Gogebic Taconite (GTAC) wishes to mine a vein of iron ore containing more than two billion tons of iron ore in Northern Wisconsin. In order for this to happen current environmental regulations on water quality, which have made mining in this area impossible since the 1970s, must be altered. As controversy over the cultural, environmental and economic ... Read More »