Tag Archives: Penokee Mountains

Dear Shirl LaBarre, Why do you want to destroy me and my neighbors?

December 19, 2011 by Barbara With Dear Ms. LaBarre, I was recently at the mining hearing in West Allis where we both had a chance to speak. Isn’t democracy great that we can both drive down from the north (albeit I had a few more hours on the road from Madeline Island than you did […]

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Voigt Decision Trumps Mining in Northern Wisconsin

December 19, 2011 by Barbara With On December 14, I attended a 10-hour pubic hearing in Milwaukee on the proposed mines in Northern Wisconsin. To be clear, my home of Madeline Island would be tremendously and adversely affected both environmentally and economically by a 4-mile or more open pit iron ore mine in the Penokee […]

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