Fortune Minerals needs to abandon its mine plan
Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 12:01AM
El Guapo in Conservation, Environment, open pit mining, sacred headwaters

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The fight to protect the Sacred Headwaters did not end when Shell agreed to abandon their coal bed methane drilling plans. Fortune Minerals has plans for an open pit coal mine on the flanks of Mt. Klappan that now stands in the way of permanent protection for the headwaters.

Shannon McPhail who was on the front lines of the fight against Shell spells out what's at stake.

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