...Meyer said the development means that GTAC will have to spend a lot more money to mine iron ore. “The groundwater modeling and the surface water monitoring is going to be a great challenge to the company, to get the models to work to figure out what the impacts are going to be,” said Meyer. The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe is downstream from the proposed mine. Tribal Chairman Mike Wiggins said that he’s worried the groundwater has already been degraded from drilling and sampling by GTAC, and that more testing is needed. “The thing about the way the laws were written is objective scientists and a regulatory framework essentially don’t exist,” said Wiggins. “So how do we know there isn’t something really negative going on there?” Seitz said they’ll continue to drill water wells to the depth of the proposed mine, which would be almost 1,500 feet deep. wpr.org/gtac-finds-more-wetlands-it-initially-expected-penokees
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