Libby Legacy Project sessions now available for online viewing

 The Libby Legacy Project offered a series of lectures last fall about the history and ramifications of vermiculite mining and asbestos contamination in Lincoln County, and now those sessions are available for viewing online.

For community members who missed these lectures, videos of each of them are now available online. Topics of the lectures, which were delivered by a variety of expert speakers, include:

• Geology and mineralogy of asbestos

• Discovery of vermiculite and the Zonolite Corp.

• History of W.R. Grace and the Libby mine

• Role of Montana in the Libby story

• Alphabet soup: history of governmental agency involvement in the Libby story 

• Biology and toxicology of asbestos

• Human health: screening and treatment

• The EPA and the clean-up

• Current research into the health effects of asbestos 

The lectures can be viewed either by searching for the Libby Legacy Project on www.youtube.com or visiting https://www.youtube.com/user/libbylegacyproject.  

The goal of the Libby Legacy Project, a volunteer-led community group, was to aid the Lincoln County community in understanding and embracing the complex legacy of our local mining history.  

Libby has been beset by contamination from the W.R. Grave Mine was used as fill for areas all over Libby, including ballfields.

In all, there were nine lectures in the series held at the Little Theatre.

These lectures were part of a course designed for teachers through the Lincoln County campus of Flathead Valley Community College. 

DVDs of the lectures also are available for checkout at the Lincoln County Library in Libby.

 Just visit the circulation desk and ask about the Libby Legacy Project.