Mines get what they want (Letter to Editor, Arizona Daily Star)

https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/letters-to-the-editor-april-24/article_286978bc-c0d0-11ec-b794-eff22a335c30.html

Richard Govern argues that the state of Arizona accommodates the mining industry and foreign investors while Arizona residents get left holding the bag: depleted groundwater, polluted air and water, and millions of tons of tailings and waste rock. That doesn’t sound like a fair deal to us, either.