A planned titanium mine near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge has drawn far-flung resistance from people worried about the fate of the Georgia swamp.
Its tannin-stained waters are practically part of her blood; its hundreds of bird species her eternal soundtrack; its maze of narrow canals, haunting cypress trees and ever-present
He said Americans should be as wary of mining near the untamed swamp “as they would any action that jeopardizes the integrity of something like Yellowstone or Yosemite or the Grand Canyon.” In the 1990s, DuPont pursued plans to mine titanium dioxide across tens of thousands of acres in the area. “If you take a drought-sensitive system, and you take water out of it, you’re going to make it droughtier. It’s as simple of that,” Jackson said. “That’s bad for the swamp, for recreation, for nearby landowners. … I think it’s a terrible place to mine.”The board of commissioners for Charlton County, where the mine would be located, passed a resolution expressing support for the project in 2019, even asa decade ago, and emergency responders are understaffed.
Josh Marks, an environmental attorney who has fought mining near the swamp for decades, had called the draft permits “a death warrant” for the Okefenokee. “A disaster waiting to happen,” he warned. Nixon, who grew up in Folkston, stared out from the bow of a small boat over the black water, its mirror-like surface reflecting the cypress and bay trees hung with Spanish moss.
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