Great video by Georgia River Network asking you to help save the Okefenokee Swamp from a proposed strip mine:
Here’s the video:
Video: Save the Okefenokee; Stop the Mine!
Video by Georgia River Network, thanks to GRN E.D. Rena Peck Stricker.
Gators need water. Continue reading
The cause of this flight was the titanium mine Twin Pines Minerals wants to put near the southeast corner of the Okefenokee Swamp. We documented they have heavy equipment on that site now:
031Equipment Twin Pines Minerals mine site T Model Road
The Georgia Water Coalition Dirty Dozen, used one of these aerial pictures taken by Wayne Morgan for WWALS on a Southwings flight for Suwannee Riverkeeper, pilot Allen Nodorft, October 5, 2019.
The mine site is less than three miles from the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, and about the same distance from the Cherokee of Georgia Tribal Grounds:
029Cherokee of Georgia Tribal Grounds
For more about why that mine is a bad idea, see the Waterkeepers Florida resolulution against the mine.
For how bad it can get, see Continue reading
Flying over the affected area appears to have made at least one elected official think harder about whether the supposed titanium mining jobs could be more important than the effects on the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, both its economic importance and the potential environmental detriments to the swamp, to the Suwannee and St. Mary’s Rivers, and to the Floridan Aquifer. You can still write to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers asking for denial or at least an Environmental Impact Statement.
Gordon Jackson, The Brunswick News, 28 August 2019, Getting the aerial perspective on a titanium mining project,
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Photo: Jim Tatum, of the Chemours North Maxville Mine, Baker County, Florida.
This is the mine pictured in the Brunswick News article.
…The mining company Twin Pines Minerals, LLC [(TPM)], said it plans to employ 150 people, but [Georgia State Representative John] Corbett acknowledged most of the employees will not come from Charlton County.
Corbett went on a two-hour flight Saturday Continue reading
A resolution supporting the TPM mine is on the agenda for the Charlton County Commission meeting, 6PM this Thursday, August 15, 2019, 68 Kingsland Drive, Folkston, GA. Especially if you live in Charlston County, please go to that meeting and object. Even better, contact your County Commissioner before the meeting.
![[Suwannee Riverkeeper op-ed 2019-08-13]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2019-07-12--tpm-usace/20190814_110602.jpg)
Suwannee Riverkeeper op-ed 2019-08-13
Suwannee Riverkeeper op-ed in the Charlton County Herald, yesterday, August 13, 2019:
Swamp more important than miners under Consent Order in Florida
Twin Pines Minerals (TPM) promises jobs, taxes, and low impact to mine for titanium between Moniac and St. George, on property that extends up to the Okefenokee NWR.
People from Baker, Bradford, and Union Counties, Florida, say they don’t know any locals who have the mine jobs promised by Chemours. The TPM application for Charlton County promises Continue reading
Twin Pines Minerals (TPM) is cited in a consent order on Chemours mines, for failure to collect data, spilling waste through silt fences and not cleaning it up, and being out of compliance on numerous counts, including radium and iron, in the Suwannee, St. Johns, and St. Mary’s River basins in Florida.
![[Four times spelled out]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2019-02-07--lfco-chemours/tpm.jpg)
Four times spelled out, on four different pages
This is the same TPM that has applied to mine titanium in Charlton County, Georgia, near the Okefenokee Swamp, which is the headwaters of the Suwannee and St. Mary’s Rivers.
You can read the Consent Order yourself: Continue reading
![[Jobs]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2020-04-12--grn-oke-usace-tpm-video/jobs.jpg)
![[TPM, GA and Chemours FL mines]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2019-02-07--lfco-chemours/map-tpm-chemours-plain.jpg)