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Water is a poor reason to limit mining in Idaho. Idaho gets the majority of the diverted water out of the whole of the Columbia-Snake River watershed. Add to that the dams with no fish ladders on the main stem Snake River upstream from Hells Canyon, and on every tributary to the Snake above Hells Canyon, and any whines about fish habitat are going to fall on interested ears...ones that want reconfiguration of those dams all the way up to Salmon creek and beyond, including the Boise River. No wonder it is called Bogus Basin. Lots of Bogus claims by the enviros who are intent on killing any job that does not involve a bicycle shop or an organic bakery. And, I am waiting for the dominant religious bloc in Eastern Idaho to get behind an attempt to send Snake River water to Utah for job creation in that insular state. There will be some Finns and Slavs from the lower Columbia River who will have a say in that prospect. Idaho has some pretty disingenuous ideas about whose water all this really is. And whose landscape is being proposed for mining.

Fenske: just exactly what effects on the Boise River will the mine have? You have done your EIS? Are you a mining engineer? Do you really think that the Feds will let anything happen just because?? Or is this one of those, ah gee, we should no anything anywhere because it will change something? The USFS is letting a fire burn on its own in the Boise NF right now. Don't you think that the smoke will hurt lungs? Or the watershed will lose soil protection when the duff is gone?? That is a management decision out of the same think tanks that don't want anything to happen that might enrich society on any acre of land, public or private. A company drill exploratory core samples and already they have ruined the drinking water. Or will next week.

This country is out of work, and many people are days or weeks from homelessness and no job prospects. Do you really think that someone making an effort to gain access to resources and jobs is a threat? Or is the threat from the tax forgiven trust suckers? The people who live on other peoples exploitation of the wilderness heritage. Do you really think that the Pew Foundation came from selling organic spinach? Pew owned Sun Oil. The wealth of the movers and shakers will run out, just like the income grandma has from her savings and bonds. No interest and no economy, and grandma makes nil. We need to do stuff. Make stuff. Mine and drill for stuff. Selling "the grandeur of the landscape" works if you have a rich and prosperous citizenry. We no longer do.

As for Idaho and water, Idaho is a water hog state. A devious and determined dammer and fish denier. No sockeye in Idaho is about Idaho Fish and Game poisoning them out of Red Lakes basin years ago to create a trophy trout fishery. The ones to Payette Lake were dammed out. Just like the steelhead to the upper Owyhee. Dammed out almost a century ago. Or like the Clearwater which got Dworshak in the late 1960s. Idaho Power and Frank Church irrigation projects did the fish in. Now there is millions of acre feet of impounded water in Idaho. Boise and the Treasure Valley will not want for water, ever. As for water quality, what exactly is "pure" water for??? To crap in, mostly. And to bathe, to wash, to clean, and all of that produces a wealth of dirty water that someone else, downstream, has to deal with. The "pure" water from the USFS watershed is about cheap. About cheap water entitlement. All to fill toilets to float a turd. The issue is to protect the cheap turd floatation medium, as opposed to having meaningful, family wage jobs. I get it.

Yep, if being stupid is painful your life must be an exercise in excruciating agony.

Again you spew exhaustive verbal diarrhea for some reason to make a point that has no bearing on the discussion.

O.K. you are for this mine, great. Address the real concerns and don't just make $hit up to be able to push keys with your fingers.

" A principal issue concerning the proposed CuMo mine near Idaho City, east of Boise, is the effect molybdenum mining may have on groundwater. The site is at upper Grimes Creek, in the headwaters of the Boise River, which provides more than 20 percent of the drinking water supply for the populous Treasure Valley, including Boise and several other cities. "

Clean water will be the futures gold.

I think the Boise enviros (Lieberman wing) should collaborate with the mining company and Industry to resolve their issues. We certainly don't want gridlock to ensue. The collaboration process is working so well on the Clearwater and Nez Perce National Forests. The collaborators are circumventing the laws and selling out to the timber industry. I'm sure Senators Crapo and Risch will help you. Go for it! It's only your drinking water.

Gee....I wonder how many JOBS will be produced from this mining venture.....

I agree with Bearbait. To many environmentalists post here. Nice to see a few bearbaits with some common sense.

Mine it. Do it right, but Mine it.

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The problem is not mining. It is a needed industry. The problem is the after effects. It seems that nearly everytime industry is turned loose, we are faced with a major environmental cleanup; and, often very serious health impacts several years later. It can be done right; Question is: Will it? Not if industry is let to go without reasonable controls.

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