CONTRIBUTOR'S VIEW - Dick Yarbrough: Legislature passed the buck again on our Okefenokee - LaGrange Daily News

CONTRIBUTOR'S VIEW - Dick Yarbrough: Legislature passed the buck again on our Okefenokee - LaGrange Daily News

Nada. Nil. Zip. Zero. So went the discussions in the just-concluded session of the Legislature regarding the possible permitting by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (and, yes, continue to insert oxymoron here until further notice) to drag mine Trail Ridge at the edge of our Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge for titanium dioxide in order that We the People never run out of toothpaste whitener. In fairness to our intrepid public ser…

The Okefenokee Swamp in Peril - Orlando Magazine

Planned mining at the the Okefenokee Swamp, which straddles the Georgia-Florida border, would damage the swamp’s water quality and vegetation, reduce water availability and harm federally listed and at-risk wildlife. Twin Pines Minerals aims to mine titanium dioxide, a whitener that could be easily mined elsewhere. The swamp is one of the last remaining sanctuaries of its kind. These images...