Silver Bow Kiwanis

Silver Bow Kiwanis Kiwanis Club Meeting, Jul 24, '18

12:00-1:00 Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Larger map and driving directions

Butte Perkins
2900 Harrison Ave.
Butte, MT 59701

Today we were joined by Cathy's friends Sheila Peterson and Terra Poole Peterson.

Maggie reminded us of the board meeting on August 2 - that's a week from Thursday.

Dress a child is coming up on August 28 from 5-8. Please sign up and pick an hour you can be there.

Eric reminded us of the Butte 100 coming up this Saturday. There is a mandatory volunteer meeting this Thursday at 6:00 at Butte Brewery. We need some help Friday afternoon with check in, and there is still some need for volunteers on Race Day!

An Ri Ra is looking for volunteers. We also have a sign up sheet for that. Please let Cathy know if you can help out and when.

Trout Unlimited is a conservation organization operating in Montana, and a supporter of Initiative 186, which will be on the ballot this November.

It is important to know that I-186 only applies to new mining permits, not to expansions or renewals of existing permits. It also only applies to hard rock mining, not other mining operations.

The Initiative gives the Montana Department of Environmental Quality the option of denying a mining permit if the operation does not show in their request that they will be able to complete mine cleanup after they are done that does not require perpetual water treatment.

The biggest issue with current mining operations are those that are under-bonded and then declare bankruptcy leaving the cleanup bill to the State, which means the bill is footed by Montana taxpayers. This is not the majority of mining operations, just a few bad players.

The Stillwater Mine, the Troy Mine, and the Highlands Mine are all examples of recent or current operations that complied with I-186 already - their clean up plan does not require treatment of water in perpetuity.

Presentation
Trout Unlimited
Menu
Open Faced Turkey Dinner
Attendees
21
Event Updated
6:09 Tuesday, July 31, 2018