Question: How many dollars of public funds have been spent treating perpetually polluted water at the Zortman/Landusky mines?
Answer: More than $20 million
MEIC has joined the Fort Belknap Community Council and others in a legal challenge to the final reclamation plan selected by the State and U.S. Bureau of Land Management for the Zortman/Landusky mining complex. The massive cyanide heap-leach open-pit gold mines were operated on the southern edge of the Ft. Belknap Reservation by the now-bankrupt Pegasus Gold Corp.