Mining under wilderness area is unsafe

Letter to the Editor,

The desert is coming!

Unlike Milo Haugen, I was not lulled asleep by the sweet violins of the “Montanore choir” and read: “Report: Mine won’t harm wildlife” to where it says, “… mining excavation would lead to permanent changes in groundwater flows.”

We need Milo’s plunger to try to get his ideas to flush down the pot once all of the water is gone. Not even his fairies will live in his woods.

Has he noticed how shaky his tinkle forest market is? Sources show very unsteady and questionable. I asked a public employee why we should sell out metals for pennies to Russia and China to stockpile and sell back to the U.S. when they control prices? We the people are not supposed to know such facts, so I watch my servant go out a side door off limits to me as I enter the office. Has Milo forgotten W.R. Grace?

Was that Milo’s voice coming from under a rock, saying: I will be dead and gone by then, so I’ve got to get it now!

We have waited long enough for desert pushers to realize that mining under wilderness areas would have detrimental effects on the environment. All for 350 jobs for 15 years of destruction. The figures do not add up.

Notice that I made no disparaging remarks about the sponsors of the Future Prospects of Lincoln County forums who failed to focus on 1,600 jobs in Northwest Montana bringing $3 billion to $10 billion annually in an industry with stability since 1929. I am sure they ware too busy changing all of the tourism maps to show the snow covered palm trees lining Bull Puddle where giant cedars now live on Bull Lake shores, and other such sites in “Milo’s Desert.”

Join me in putting $3.50 “I love dirty music jobs!” signs where Montanaore signs were and $25 “I love dirty music jobs” T-shirts on so everyone around town can see who supports real jobs Libby Area Chamber of Commerce called the “perfect type everyone would welcome.” Montana Screen Printing and the Printing Press will get to work now among the 4,800 jobs retained.

Unless Milo is counting on making a fortune with “Libby, Montana belts,” to tell people where wildlife lived before the desert came.

-Stanely Davis

Troy