An effort to impose a tax on the mining of limestone, sand, and other aggregates is dead for this legislative session. Sen. Frank Simpson’s, R-Springer, bill failed in a senate committee last week, and Simpson confirmed to StateImpact on Monday that he will not try to bring it forward again in 2013. The idea was [...]
Shannon Shirley’s land along Mill Creek is rich in natural resources: Massive granite boulders worn to their current shape after millions of years of erosion, a carpet of limestone and the creek they’ve relied on for water for more than 15 years. She now calls that stream ‘dysfunctional.’ “We bring in water as a backup [...]
There are about a dozen operations currently mining or planning to mine in the area of Mill Creek in Northern Johnston County, which is fed by the Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer, perhaps the state’s most sensitive water resource. The limestone in the aquifer is some of the best in world. So good, it’s even an ingredient in [...]
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