EarthWINS Daily 1999
EarthWINS Daily
#4.1
2/1/99
1. Wisconsin
Update
a. ACTION
ALERT! Wisconsin reservation & township battling mine suits
b. Moratorium
Example Mines Nothing Like Crandon, Critics Say;
Groups Call
for Rule-Making to Stop Inappropriate Mines
c. DNR acknowledges
changing Mining Moratorium Law after it passed.
2. Wisconsin
AP story on Rio Algom-owned B.C. mine shutdown
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EarthWINS Daily
#4.2
2/8/99
1. WISCONSIN:
Nashville Wisconsin Under Siege!
2. WISCONSIN:
Calling All Surfers! Clean Water Action Council Launches Its
New Web Site
3. TENNESSEE:
Save Our Cumberland Mountains
4. FWD: Campaign
Finance Disaster
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EarthWINS Daily
#4.3
2/9/99
1. MEXICO:
Support Striking Mexican Mineworker
2. JAKARTA:
Govt To Reject Freeport Production
3. SOUTH SUMATRA:
Barisan Gold Mine Pollutes River
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EarthWINS Daily
#4.4
2/10/99
1. INDONESIA:
Walhi's statement on Freeport
2. WASHINGTON:
Mining Ban Pits Environmentalists
3. RUSSIA:
Coal Miners Push For State Aid
4. WISCONSIN:
Some things you can do to help Nashville Wisconsin
a.
Info for requesting link to Nashville Site
b.
Help Nashville, WI with Affiliate Programs
5. WISCONSIN
New Bill Seeks End to Political Control of DNR
6. WISCONSIN:
Representative: Interpretation Of Law Too Easy On Mining Company
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EarthWINS Daily
#4.5
2/11/99
1. WISCONSIN:
Mining Science Advisory Council meeting announcement
2. WISCONSIN:
ACTION ALERT! Tell Press About Nashville Wisconsin's Web Site
3. Fwd: IJC
to investigate water use, diversion and removal policies
4. AUSTRALIA:
Uranium Mining: Lake Eyre Going
5. *Corporate*
Perjury and Obstruction of Justice
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EarthWINS Daily
#4.6
2/14/99
1. MEXICO:
Mexican Miners OCCUPY mine!
2. GREENLines
#815 Excerpt: MINE CO. SEEKS COMPENSATION
3. AUSTRALIA:
Unionists arrested at Rio Tinto's Gordonstone Coal Mine
4. INDONESIA:
Freeport Updates
a.
Freeport agrees to cough up more royalties
b.
Indonesian Fallout Hits Mining
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EarthWINS Daily
#4.7
2/15/99
1. RUSSIA:
Russ Coal Miners Push For State Aid
2. SUMATRA:
On the Activities of PT Barisan Tropical Mining
3. CANADA:
Health and Safety at Voisey's Bay
4. US: Our
Right-to-Know is under siege
5. Fwd: PUBLIC
MEETING: EPA STRATEGY ON PRIORITY TOXIC CHEMICALS
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EarthWINS Daily
#4.8
2/17/99
1. WISCONSIN:
Nashville web site
a.
Nashville Chairman Responds to Nicolet Minerals' Spokesman
b.
Leveling the Playing Field by Using the Internet
2. USA Today
& NY Times on 1872 Mining Law
3. U.N. Spokesperson
for Native Americans
4. ENVIRONMENT-ECUADOR:
Indigenous Communities Seek More Reserves
5. Ted Turner
Interview in E Magazine
6. Excerpts:
GREENLines Issue #817
a.
Op-Ed Buries Okefenokee Deal
b.
Only Two Species Recovered from Valdez Spill
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EarthWINS Daily
#4.9
2/18/99
1. WEST PAPUA:
Free Papual Movement (OPM) Spokesperson Visits USA
2. JAKARTA:
The Freeport/Rio Tinto mine
3. INDONESIA:
Excerpt, National Dialogue - to what end?
4. INDONESIA:
Caltex, Freeport test the post-Soeharto waters
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EarthWINS Daily
#4.10
2/19/99
1. Really Mean
and Really Stupid: Exxon Funds Attack on Punitive Damages
2. INDONESIA:
Analysts Differ Over Offers by Freeport Indonesia: Paper
3. NATIONAL:
Bureau of Land Management Releases Draft Mining Regulations
4. Community
Nuggets - MINEWIRE February 12
5. Mining
Conservation Directory now available on the Web - MINEWIRE January 29
6. CSIRO Report
on Acid Mine Drainage - MINEWIRE January 29
7. Green Scissors
'99 Exposes $51 Billion in Wasteful Federal Spending that
Harms the
Environment
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EarthWINS
Daily #4.11
2/20/99
1. MEXICO:
Cananea Miners Action Alert!
2. UKRAINE:
Miner Fight Ends in Flames
3. RUSSIA:
Labor Campaign Update
4. ROMANIA:
Mining Leaders Sentenced
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EarthWINS Daily
#4.12
2/22/99
1. WISCONSIN:
Walt Bresette Passes On
2. JAKARTA:
Irianese Oppose PT Freeport's expansil plan
3. JAKARTA:
Jakarta may seek more royalties
4. INDONESIA:
Freeport obtains Indonesian approval to expand world's
largest gold
mine
5. GUYANA:
Wildcat Miners Polluting Many Rivers
6. CHICAGO:
Midwest Regional Conference on Corporations and Education
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EarthWINS Daily
#4.13
2/25/99
1. TENNESSEE:
Write a letter to Stop a Strip Mine
2. WISCONSIN:
Northwoods Alliance Democracy Dinner
3. IEN 1999
Conference
4. WEST VIRGINIA:
Mining Resolution, Appalachian American Indians of WV
5. ANNOUNCEMENT:
Listserve - Focus on the Corporation
6. BOOK REVIEW:
Corporation Nation
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