{"id":222,"date":"2011-04-16T15:09:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T20:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2011-04-16T15:22:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T20:22:41","slug":"the-opportunity-of-toxiland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/the-opportunity-of-toxiland\/","title":{"rendered":"The opportunity of Toxiland!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_223\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-223\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/butte_toxiclake_mining.jpg\" alt=\"Large toxic Berkley mining pit Butte-Toxiland\" title=\"butte_toxiclake_mining\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" class=\"size-full wp-image-223\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visit Toxiland<\/p><\/div>I may have underestimated local and state politicians bending all rules necessary, changing laws when possible, and giving vast sums of money to already wealthy mining companies to lure them to the Minnesota Gold, presently Non-Ferrous Metals ensuring nearly hundreds of jobs, in the short term.  <\/p>\n<p>But, their long term thinking may be similar to our mining crazy friends in Butte, MT.  This video with Jon Stewart and Jason Jones explains it all:   <\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#000000;width:520px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:130399\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" base=\".\" flashVars=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/thu-june-22-2006\/jones---bad-pit\">The Daily Show &#8211; Jones &#8211; Bad Pit<\/a><\/b><br \/>Tags: <a href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/full-episodes\/'>Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a>,<a href='http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\/'>Political Humor &#038; Satire Blog<\/a>,<a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thedailyshow'>The Daily Show on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jon pronounces that &#8220;In the environmental war, the human race continues to win the war over it.&#8221;  But, points out that where some only see a large toxic mining pit, &#8220;one town see a horribletunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><p id=\"caption-attachment-223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visit Toxiland<\/p>\n<p>I may have underestimated local and state politicians bending all rules necessary, changing laws when possible, and giving vast sums of money to already wealthy mining companies to lure them to the Minnesota Gold, presently Non-Ferrous Metals ensuring nearly hundreds of jobs, in the short term. <\/p>\n<p>But, their long term thinking [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,11,53,52,54,70],"tags":[74,73,72,71,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}