Sometimes when we do things we offer tobacco to our creator because we’re going take something that we need or that we’re going to use. There’s not enough tobacco in the world to offer for this mine.
These words were spoken by Adrian King, from the Lac du Flambeau tribe, as part of testimony from members of the Anishinaabe Nation at the January 11 Jobs, Economy and Small Business Committee hearing in Hurley, Wisconsin.
Six tribes went on record to oppose the proposed new mining legislation that would strip environmental protections to expedite permitting for the G-Tac mining corporation.
So how can you guys sit there and talk about these kind of things? You don’t know the impact, the devastation, the destruction that will happen in northern Wisconsin. Do you understand the continental divide? Wetlands? Unless you can guarantee me 1,000% that you won’t damage anything I won’t support you in the mine. -Tony DePerry, Red Cliff
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