SUPERIOR PARKS.
"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down/ Of the big lake they call Gitchee Gummee/ The lake it is said never gives up her dead/ When the skies of November turn gloomy." Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" GORDON LIGHTFOOT made...

Tennessee.
Fast-paced development has made dump trucks laden with sand, gravel, clay and dirt a common sight on DeSoto County's highways and back roads. But county government officials are thinking about knuckling down on those who deal in dirt. The Board of Supervisors is debating whether to toughen restrictions on...

MSHA-OSHA conflicts. (Law: key issues).
MSHA has jurisdiction over safety and health at mines. OSHA has jurisdiction over just about everything else. End of story? Not exactly. There are many facets to the differences between MSHA and OSHA. One way to view the differences between these agencies is to recognize that MSHA...

De Venecia vows review of 1995 RP Mining Act.
House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. yesterday announced that Congress will initiate an immediate review of the 1995 Philippine Mining Act and integrate the strongest possible safeguards for the environment and safety standards for mining communities. De Veneciaas announcement came after he, President Arroyo and Cabinet officials...

Protection of small miners urged.
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Q. Pimentel Jr. (PDP-Laban) yesterday reminded the Arroyo government not to neglect the rights of small miners as it opens the exploration and extraction of the abundant gold deposits in Mount Diwalwal in Compostela Valley to big mining corporations. Pimentel stressed that the...

Toward the end of waste: reflections on a new ecology of industry.
I WANT TO THINK SIMPLY AND ABSTRACTLY about all of industry, considered as a single block. That block takes in materials and energy, transforms them into products and wastes, and then excretes the products and wastes. At the end of their useful lives, the products may become wastes and...

Green Reserves for Suriname.
Huge investment in the timber, mining, and petroleum-extraction industries of South America is rarely viewed as a bad thing. But a new study by Conservation International (CI)--especially in the three Guianas--warns that the region's most biologically rich ecosystems are being logged, mined, and drilled more rapidly than ever imagined....

Green Reserves for Suriname.
Huge investment in the timber, mining, and petroleum-extraction industries of South America is rarely viewed as a bad thing. But a new study by Conservation International (CD--especially in the three Guianas--warns that the region's most biologically rich ecosystems are being logged, mined, and drilled more rapidly than ever imagined....

Country Profile: Peru.
Two centuries ago, Italian explorer Antonio Raimondi wrote that Peru is like a 'beggar seated on a bench of gold'. Today, nearly half the population lives on less than two dollars a day despite billion-dollar mining, oil and natural-gas extraction. But Raimondi's ancient and cynical metaphor does not reflect...

Olympic coast claimed to harbor minerals.
A would-be prospector has asserted a claim to speculative mineral reserves underlying the north coast of Olympic National Park in Washington. Claiming a long-standing patent to possible gold and other "outstanding mineral reserves [that] are quite extensive" beneath Shi-Shi Beach, in May 1994 Scott Watson applied for a special-use...