Eden NewsLocal news for Eden, VT continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.Mine cleanup costs could be $500 million- November 26, 2007 "We are concerned there could be some catastrophic event at the site where a whole mound, a big chunk, could slide into a waterway" When Vermont Asbestos Group closed its mine on Belvedere Mountain in 1993, it left 500-foot-tall piles of asbestos tailings - mining waste - dotting the lower mountain. via Barre-Montpelier Times-Argushttp://www.topix.net/city/eden-vt/2007/11/mine-cleanup-costs-could-be-500-million?fromrss=... Leaking asbestos mine waste damages Vermont wetlands- November 25, 2007 "You could land a plane on it. The only thing growing are some phragmites -- invasive weeds." Leonard Prive of Burlington bought 168 acres of paradise in Eden -- then watched as a lava flow of asbestos-laced mud and gravel buried the rich wetlands at the heart of his property. via BurlingtonFreePress.comhttp://www.topix.net/city/eden-vt/2007/11/leaking-asbestos-mine-waste-damages-vermont-wetl... As snow arrives in Vermont, some are giddy, some are bracing- November 17, 2007 "Our snowboard director just breezed through the office saying, 'I'm pumped, I'm stoked and I'm ready to go,'" You know the snowy routine, and chances are you'll get to practice it today as accumulating snow blankets the state for the first time since April. via BurlingtonFreePress.comhttp://www.topix.net/city/eden-vt/2007/11/as-snow-arrives-in-vermont-some-are-giddy-some-a... |