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A Pennsylvania investor is suing the Ontario government because they won’t let him fill his old mine workings with solid waste, in other words use the old open pit as a landfill. His lawsuit, based on the North American Free Trade Agreement, claims that the Ontario government is diminishing the value of his property by refusing to allow productive use of it.
On an Iowa fall morning I randomly opened a series of e-documents downloaded a week before from a site someone had recommended. Outside my study window the third day of corn harvesting was in full swing. Every fifteen minutes a new load of golden corn flows in full stream from the combine into the waiting truck. I cannot take my eyes off this flow—so yellow, so much, so different. Sorry, I am supposed to be reading the many 100-page and more documents on Mining, Minerals, and Sustainable Development (MMSD).
