Mining companies such as Tintina Resources love to claim that mines will be safe, thanks to “modern mining.” But if mining has changed so much, shouldn’t Americans, and especially Montanans get a modern mining law?

In addition to the common mining-company maneuver of declaring bankruptcy before having to fork out money for reclamation, another set of common ploys appears to be tax dodging and bribing local communities. The story of Cameco Corp., a uranium-mining company in Saskatchewan, is a good illustration of those.