Iron County attorney Tony Stella has some very interesting posts on his website, www.stellareport.com, regarding the history and composition of the current Iron County Mining Impact Committee.
According to Stella the committee originally appointed by the Iron County board of supervisors, which was made up of a cross section of Iron County residents both approving of, and skeptical of, iron mining, was dissolved without explanation and replaced by a new committee chaired by Leslie Kolesar, a member of the Wisconsin Mining Association.
And, according to Stella, two members of the new Iron County Mining Impact Committee acknowledged during a recent meeting that they had done contract work for Gogebic Taconite.
What’s going on in Iron County? A committee dissolved without explanation and a new one stacked with people directly benefitting from Gogebic Taconite’s presence? A unanimous vote from the Iron County Forestry Committee to grant the LCO Harvest and Education Camp a one year permit, and then a unanimous vote later to press criminal and civil charges against them?
What’s going on in Iron County?
Rust never sleeps in Iron County WI
Sounds like the mining lobbyists may have crossed the palms of Iron County’s elected officials with silver. “Here’s some pretty, shiny stuff; now get rid of those pesky citizen campers and let us dig our gargantuan hole in the ground.”
“Corruption in Iron County?”
AKA: Local assets sold by by conflicted local liabilities, AKA Mining Impact Committee and Forestry Committee, in exchange for unknown personal gain?
Which prompts the question, where is the justice in Iron County?
And where is the 7th District’s people’s Congressional representative, Sean Duffy?
I mind deeply.