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...long? The scheme has never been tested in a man-made impoundment, nor at 9,000 to 10,000 ft. in mountainous terrain subject to very heavy snowfalls, avalanches, flooding, severe underground seepage and seismic activity. If, or when, the tailings dump fails, it will funnel heavy metals into Fisher Creek, which becomes the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River, the only "wild and scenic" river in northwestern Wyoming. If the Army Corps of Engineers or the Environmental Protection Agency vetoes the wetlands destruction, the next best site would require a more complicated dam, and if, or when, it failed...
Allan Kirk, Crown Butte's chief exploration geologist, does a good job of guiding skeptical visitors around the mine site, explaining the care with which crews have been contouring and reseeding -- "mitigating" is the word -- old mine wreckage. Orange-stained, acidic water, the beginning of Fisher Creek, flows out of an old adit (mine entrance), but Kirk says large-scale plugging with cement and waste rock will prevent such seepage from dribbling out of Henderson's far side and downstream to Yellowstone. Will this work in a watery, fractured mountain? "There are risks in all human activity," says Kirk...
With customers switching rapidly from films and photographs to electronic imaging, Fisher is expected to focus Kodak on digital forms of pictures that can be stored and transmitted by computer. The chance to rebuild Kodak the same way he revamped Motorola thrills Fisher. "To do that twice in my life, that's a big opportunity." But, he adds, "the first order of work will be to % make sure our financial house is in order." As to his financial house, Fisher, who earned $5 million at Motorola last year, could pocket up to $100 million in salary, bonuses and stock options...
Photographic giant Eastman Kodak successfully wooed George Fisher, chairman of high-tech electronics firm Motorola, to become its new chairman and chief executive officer, effective immediately. Fisher had brilliantly positioned Motorola to compete in the new world of communications, and his move shocked the company's board and employees...
...George Fisher plans to grow Kodak back to health...