GA DNR keeps passing the buck about the
proposal to strip mine for titanium within three miles of the Okefenokee Swamp,
by miners from Alabama, Twin Pines Minerals, LLC.
The Swamp is the headwaters of the Suwannee and St. Marys Rivers and it interchanges surface water with groundwater all the way down to the Floridan Aquifer, from which we all drink.
And ask
your Georgia House Representative
to sign on to
HB 71,
the Okefenokee Protection Act.
That bill will not stop this permit application,
but it would stop further expansion of that mine and any other mines
on the east side of the Swamp.
Trail Ridge Land LLC
Land the Charlton County Tax Assessors show owned by Trail Ridge Land LLC.
The northwest corner buts right up against the Swamp.
Floridians, you can comment. And you can ask your Georgia friends and relatives to ask their statehouse members to sign on to HB 71.
Back in September, Georgia DNR Board Chair Bill Jones said Continue reading →
The actual decision on the Special Exception will be made tonight at 5PM
by the Brooks County Commission at
Brooks County Courthouse, East Screven Street, Quitman, GA, 31643.
There is no agenda for tonight’s meeting on the county’s website,
WWALS has still not received agenda nor board packet in response to
our open records request of January 30, 2023.
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