This is something my daughter, Teresa Young, e-mailed me from college in 
Wisconsin.  Thought it might be appropriate to post here ... Please direct 
any responses to her, not me!
Debbie Merritt
dmerritt@tmug.org
Dear Friend:
We would like to bring to your attention an environmental disaster in 
progress.  As you read this, thousands of gallons of sulfuric acid 
solution are being pumped into a copper mine in White Pine, MI.  This 
is part of a 2 year pilot project to extract the last drabs of copper 
by solution mining a played-out conventional mine.  This process puts 
the entire Lake Superior ecosystem and the surrounding areas at 
great risk of contamination from the acid.  The US Environmental 
Protection Agency has already decided to allow the Copper Range 
Mining Company to implement this pilot program. The decision whether 
or not to continue this project after the two-year period lies in the 
hands of the EPA board.  If allowed to continue, 11 billion gallons 
of sulfuric acid will be pumped into the mine, which is bound to 
leak.  If ingesting only a few drops of sulfuric acid will kill a 
human, imagine the effect of billions of gallons in our ecosystem.  
If this situation worries you, please help us convince the EPA to 
bring this project to an abrupt end.  You can contact EPA board 
members at 77 West Jackson Boulevard
                    Chicago, IL    60604
or you can call Jodi Traub, director, at 312/8860126 to express your 
concern.  For more detailed information about this situation you can 
email any of the following @wheeler.northland.edu
Kate -- fk5382
Teresa -- yt0009
Jeanni -- cj4659
Please forward this letter to everyone you know.
Thank you,
students of Northland College
Teresa Young
yt0009@wheeler.northland.edu
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