Solution to mining waste is right under our feet
To the editor:
A tailing pile seems to be a big concern with those who don’t want any mining in Maine … well there doesn’t have to be any huge tailing piles of gravel and crushed rock. It can all be used for road beds.
There are over 3,000 miles of maintained woods road in the back country and 2,000 miles of unmaintained roads. All of these roads periodically have to be rebuilt and repaired. The tailings could be used in the road beds and what a fantastic road system it would then be.
Also there’ll be eventually an extension of I-95 to Fort Kent … the DOT only has to decide if it is going to follow the Rt. 11 corridor or the Rt. 1 corridor. There, in a simple form, is the answer to the tailings issue. But those against mining can not think with simplicity. They purposely make things difficult to prove a point.
Randall Probert
Bethel
