Revett Silver Company Will Not Give Up.
They will fight for this. Why? How many years has this been going on? It has turned into another battle ground like logging where fingers are pointed at that Wrong Bad Guys.
Pollution Hurts us all, Sandpoint will LOSE their recreational value with poison going into Lake Pend Oreille. The Economic of Pristine Water and Clean Air will ALWAYS outlast the short term economic gain of mines. As a Real Estate Broker Owner I can tell you that the discussion of the mine going in has already hurt real estate.
Lake Koocanusa Real Estate values will Be Affected.
For Example Plum Creek has a large piece of land
for sale just up from Barron Creek Boat Launch,
It seems like a great peace of property for a cheap price,
but look at this map
http://www.lakekoocanusamontana.com/LakeKoocanusaCreekInletMaps.jpg/LakeKoocanusaCreekInletMaps-full.jpg
Just upwind, and upstream in the water Table
is Ground Zero for the War against
W.R. Grace that Libby Montana
has been fighting for years.
Who wants to live where asbestos MAY be
in the water. What WR grace was allowed to
do in the name of creating jobs and
boosting the economy has
led to the slow and painful
death of generations of
Libby Montane Residents.
And with Revett Mining Drilling
Under the Cabinet Wilderness
the Forest Service is about to
Let it Happen all Over Again
in the name of economy and jobs.
Why Can't people look to the Future
the air, watershed and animals that
you see today are not what your
childrent will live with.
And if you LOVE Hunting and FISHING
think again, this Mine will poisen the Fish
and the Game and Your family will be eating it.
Real Estate Values Will Be Severely HIT
Folks email me quite often and ask how it is going. Who wants to live in a polluted area that they thought to be pristine. Recreational Real Estate, People moving inland from polluted shores, and people leaving cities do not want to move to a place that is worse than where they came from.
Sandpoint Real Estate, North Idaho Real Estate, Libby Real Estate, Lake Koocanusa Real Estate and Northwest Montana Real Estate WILL be effected by the mining under the Cabinet Wilderness. If this happens you can be assured that it opens up all wilderness in the area for exploitation, I am all for jobs but I WILL NOT hike in a wilderness where there is drilling below the surface that is killing the animals, poisoning the water.
Real Estate is the Biggest Economic Factor that Will be Hit. Who wants to move to Northwest Montana, the land where the Forest Service always big industry to drill under their wilderness and with a process that WILL pollute the waters forever.
The mining company will take the BIG money and run and maybe even change their name like they did before, and North Idaho and Northwest Montana will be left with the mess. Just like the Vermiculite Mine in Libby Montana.
There is NO DOUBT that the mine will drive away, kill and poison local wildlife.
The Forest Service lost timber dollars, the county lost timber jobs so they are READY to let another W.R. Grace type company come in and rape our land, kill our animals and in the long run we will find out that some form of the process has hurt the peoples health just like the W.R. Grace incident.
The Forest Service is taking it from all sides I am sure, how do you create an economy with out taking it from the FOREST?
That is their Mentality, that is Old News, Old Media and Old Ways. There are a lot more ways to create jobs than to open Northwest Montana up to who ever wants to create heavy labor jobs, ruin our wild lands and become Billionaires on the Backs of our people.
Look around, those who owned the mills that are shut down, are STILL RICH, still Real Estate Moguls and those that made them that way are simply out of a job.
For More Information on This Topic Check out our Northwest Montana Environment Blog at
http://www.northwestmt.net/search?q=revett
Northwest Montana Mining Information
http://www.rockcreekalliance.org/TheMine
