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Mount Tenabo Threatened |
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Mount Tenabo, a site of cultural importance to the Shoshone people
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Photo credit: GBRW
The traditional domain of the Shoshone people stretches across much of the Great Basin. The area is currently impacted by more than three dozen large gold mines, and Crescent Valley is now the epicenter for gold exploration in the lower 48 states.
In the past 40 years, some $26 billion in gold has been extracted from the Western Shoshone lands. Now that the biggest gold deposit on record has been discovered in this area, groundwater loss and contamination, as well as the destruction of significant cultural sites, threaten Shoshone and non-native communities.
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Oil, Gas, Mining Companies Underpay Western States and the Public |
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Calling for fairness in taxation, citizens across the west today released a report showing oil, gas, and mining companies are not paying their fair share.
The report "Mining Taxes in Ten Western States", prepared by Dr. Robert Ginsburg from the Center on Work and Community Development, analyzes state mining taxation around the west by applying five standard economic principles of fiscal extraction policy. Using these standards, the report finds current taxes in the ten states, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming, are insufficient and in need of reform.
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