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Too few upsides to warrant mining for titanium near wildlife refuge and many huge risks Tommy Barton This is a column by Tommy Barton, retired editorial page editor of the Savannah Morning News. Native Americans called it “Okefenokee,” or “land of the trembling earth.” In this watery corner of Southeast Georgia, the land actually thick patches of peat that literally floated on top of water – trembled when you got out of your canoes and walked on it. Even the trees trembled. I still remember my first visit to the Okefenokee Swamp, the largest blackwater swamp in North America, about 40 years ago. It was like paddling a canoe into a time warp to when dinosaurs walked a raw, unspoiled planet. Here, I got up close to real alligators, not the obnoxious pretend Gators who slank about the old Gator Bowl every fall in Jacksonville. ....
Sen. Jon Ossoff toured the Okefenokee Swamp by boat and helicopter last week and was briefed by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials there on the swamp’s conservation status, biological and hydrological conditions, and ongoing efforts to assess the potential environmental impact of a mining company s plans to mine near the edge of the wetland wildlife refuge. “The Okefenokee is a sacred natural resource,” Ossoff said in a prepared statement. “I am grateful to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for their diligent protection of this precious wildlife refuge, and last week’s briefings affirmed my conviction they must participate intensively in the ongoing effort to assess damage that could result from proposed mining activity around the edge of the swamp.” ....
Georgia s U.S. Senators want the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to help state regulators evaluate a proposed mine near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. ....
Updated at 5:35 p.m. Thursday Georgia’s two U.S. senators are asking the federal government to get involved in reviewing a controversial proposed mine near the Okefenokee Swamp. Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff sent a letter this week to Martha Williams, deputy director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, who is a Biden administration appointee. Sens. Tom Carper, D-Del., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., also signed the letter. The senators are asking the federal agency to help the state of Georgia on the permitting process for a proposed titanium dioxide mine located a few miles from the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. ....
The Georgia Sierra Club is putting pressure on the Chemours Co. to publicly disavow any future involvement with a proposal to mine titanium next to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in South Georgia. A different company, the Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals LLC, has proposed the mining operation and is awaiting a permitting decision from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. But the Georgia Sierra Club fears that the larger and better established Chemours Co. could buy the Twin Pines project or the titanium it produces. The ultimate aim is to save the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge from mining, Georgia Sierra Club Chairman Daniel Blackman said. ....