This Week: Kari Lydersen on "The Very Future of Michigan's Upper Peninsula"

Make sure you check this week's editorial as Kari Lydersen writes about mining in the Yellow Dog Plains which she says may decide "the very future of Michigan's Upper Peninsula."

Here's an excerpt.

...a mining boom in the UP would mean forests torn up by new roads for an endless parade of trucks lugging fuel and waste rock; an influx of transient workers; a serious disruption of activities and economies based on the great outdoors; a new power paradigm where huge multinational companies call the shots.

Lydersen is a former Washington Post reporter and author known for her extensive national and international work on social and environmental issues who brings a unique and thoughtful perspective to her work.

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