The Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources has extended the deadline to register for its Mining Country Institute until Friday. The institute, which will be held Aug. 20-24, is described as an expenses-paid learning expedition that
will cover environment, natural resource and economic issues in northern
Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Participants will travel to mines, communities and reservations, and discussion topics include hydraulic fracturing and hard-rock sulfide mining, the politics of extraction, the back story of the mining boom, Native American lands and tradition caught in the crossfire, and concerned scientists and citizens who became active in monitoring the environment.
Wisconsin is close to opening its first open-pit iron mine, which has drawn sharp criticism from environmentalists and Native Americans in the area. West-central Wisconsin has also become the center of sand mining, also called frac sand. For more information on the Mining Country Institute, or to apply, click here.
Participants will travel to mines, communities and reservations, and discussion topics include hydraulic fracturing and hard-rock sulfide mining, the politics of extraction, the back story of the mining boom, Native American lands and tradition caught in the crossfire, and concerned scientists and citizens who became active in monitoring the environment.
Wisconsin is close to opening its first open-pit iron mine, which has drawn sharp criticism from environmentalists and Native Americans in the area. West-central Wisconsin has also become the center of sand mining, also called frac sand. For more information on the Mining Country Institute, or to apply, click here.
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