Wisconsin lawmakers gut environmental regulations just for one mining company. - Ojibwe calling it GENOCIDE

I don't give a crap what your political leanings are.
This pisses me off.
The Penokee-Gogebic Range is one of the last truly pristine areas left here.
What is so disturbing is so much of our state's legislative environmental legacy has just been completely gutted.

Wisconsin was more-or-less clear cut twice.
We 'learned' from our mistakes and started managing our land more respectfully.
"The genesis of Earth Day is credited to Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin." [link to en.wikipedia.org]

Under Nelson and subsequent Governors more sane regulations were enacted. Our lakes and rivers slowly came back to life.

Now, all that has been changed.

"“these waterways—including the Bad, Potato and Tyler Forks rivers—are designated as Exceptional or Outstanding Resource waters, meaning they are among the highest quality rivers in Wisconsin, having good water quality … and supporting valuable fisheries and wildlife habitat.”"
[link to www.uwsp.edu]

What is difficult to understand is why so much environmental degradation is necessary for so little iron.

1000+/- jobs for 5 years.

What happened to our 'new economy', why are we reverting?
Yes, we need jobs...
Ohhh, I get it. 10,000+ jobs 5 years out to clean up the mess.
And don't forget the lawsuits. (lawyers getting rich)

This legislation is considered a violation of Federal Treaty.

"In 1830, Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which allowed for the relocation of Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi. According to the Wisconsin Historical Society, “… it was sometimes applied unilaterally and enforced at gunpoint, in flagrant violation of previous treaties, to evict Indians from valuable lands in the East.”
Some of the 10,000,000 bison that were nearly brought to extinction in the late 1870s.

Some of the 10,000,000 bison that were nearly brought to extinction in the late 1870s.
The Treaties of 1837 and 1842 guaranteed the Ojibwe—Wiggins’ ancestors—the right to stay in the Lake Superior basin in exchange for ceding the US government 23 million acres.

The Ojibwe are set to lose pristine land with this operation just upstream of them. Their rice paddies will die and the fishery will be decimated.
"...proof is presented that iron ore mining in Minnesota has killed off wild rice in the St. Louis River for 100 miles and that an iron ore mine in the Penokee Hills will devastate the wild rice in the Kakagon Sloughs. For the fourth time, the committee expects Wiggins to plead for the sacred water and sustainable food production that his people are dependent on."
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"Because we’re directly downstream and set to endure the impacts of this project, we view it as an imminent threat. This human threat really manifests itself in a form of genocide. Genocide."
[link to wcmcoop.com]



Lawsuits and cleanup likely footed by us taxpayers.