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Diamonds: An Enviro’s Best Friend?

I promise to get off this soap bucket soon, but it's necessary to get a few more of these greenies-as-fraud stories written before they fade from hard-drive memory. Our next story is set in the Canadian Arctic, New York City, Washington, D.C. (whence all things evil come from), and Noxon, Mont. It began with a full-page ad in the Washington Post by none other than jeweler Tiffany's CEO, Michael Kowalski. The Tiffany ad denounced plans by Revett Minerals to open the Rock Creek mine near Noxon. Rock Creek had been facing fierce opposition from such scientific heavyweights as singers Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne/David Bond, Wallace Street Journal. More here.

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.

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