HOUGHTON -- The award-winning documentary Mining Madness, Water Wars: The Great Lakes in the Balance will be shown at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Apr. 22 (Earth Day 2009) in Fisher Hall Room 135 at Michigan Technological University (MTU).
Mining Madness, Water Wars illustrates the stories behind a controversial proposal to develop a mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The documentary describes scientists’, community activists’, and tribal officials’ views on the project’s flaws, which could place workers in peril and jeopardize a Lake Superior tributary and its watershed, and the lack of responsiveness of the government agencies responsible for reviewing permit applications from the company proposing the mine.
Following the showing of the film, there will be a question and answer session with a panel of several of the activists and scientists featured in the film, including Michelle Halley, Senior Manager, National Wildlife Federation; Cynthia Pryor, Executive Director, Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve; Stan Vitton, Mining Engineer and MTU Professor; Jack Parker, Mining Engineer; and David Flaspohler, Wildlife Biologist and MTU Professor.
This event is sponsored by the Society of Environmental Engineers, Michigan Technological University. Mining Madness, Water Wars: The Great Lakes in the Balance was underwritten by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and produced by Brauer Productions, Inc., and Summit Public Relations Strategies, LLC.
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