MONTANA MINING
July 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE
PRESSURE is mounting on the USA's Montana to clean up the effects of its old hillside mines. Lawmakers, county commissioners and environmental engineers from
around the state are pressing local Senator Conrad Burns to ask the US Congress for US$35 million (Pounds 22 million) so Montana and 10 other western states can more
quickly clean up some of their abandoned mines. Heavy metals dug more than 100 years ago are now leaching into the water supply. Montana hopes to use US$9 million of the US$35 million to continue cleanup efforts in eight areas ...
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