Wisconsin: Left holding the debris

Wisconsin needs jobs = a safe mine. This premise is false no matter which state name you insert. Several large scale mines developed in the last half of the twentieth century have declared bankruptcy and left taxpayers with the responsibility of treating acid waters in perpetuity. Examples include the Zortman Landusky Mine in Montana, the Summitville Mine in Colorado, and the Brohm Mine in South Dakota. We can see the hundreds of millions of dollars the states have paid to try and clean up the devastation that mining companies have left. Long after the companies are bankrupt and gone taxpayers are left to pay for the clean-up. The second part is false because it has never been done in the history of the world. Whenever there has been a mine that generated sulfide waste, with water present, there has been acid mine drainage and heavy metal pollution of the water. 
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