“I often listen to the news about my dreamy former home and think that the view of the inversion outside my window feels like a crystal ball, a clear view of what could happen if we let copper mining companies continue to dig up the land and leave metal toxins in their wake,” writes Julie Jung.
A partial land slide in the Bingham Copper Mine, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022.I am a tropical ecologist by training. While Salt Lake City is my home now, I lived most of my 20s in a tiny town in Panama, whose population primarily comprised of canal workers and research scientists working for the renowned. Every rainy season as a graduate student, I came here to study red-eyed treefrogs and eat my weight in wild mangoes., where everything overflowed with life.
These hazards I had learned to expect. But a massive, colonialist mining project in the center of the biological corridor was never on my BINGO card. The Canadian company First Quantum Minerals wants to expand activities in Cobre Panama, an open-pit copper mine deep in the Panamanian rainforest that covers an area roughly three times the size of Manhattan. Reportedly, the Cobre Panama project has already led to theare continuing, yet there has been little media coverage, neither local nor international, and even less progress to stop this destruction from happening.
These days, I work as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Utah, less than 30 miles directly northwest of the, touted to be the largest man-made excavation on Earth and allegedly one of the few human-made structures visible from space. A lot of my research lately has centered around our neighboring Great Salt Lake – namely, what happens to the lake’s benthic communities as it dries, what contaminants are present in the sediments, and where those may have originated from.
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