DICK YARBROUGH: Are We Swapping One Problem For Another In Okefenokee Mining Controversy?

While some things may change, others seem not to change at all. I am talking about the efforts to drag-mine our Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge for titanium dioxide in order that mankind will never run short of toothpaste whitener.

Sources tell me that Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals, which applied for a permit from Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division (insert oxymoron here) to drag-mine 582 acres on Trail Ridge at the eastern edge of the Okefenokee may be headed back to Saraland or Wetumpka — or whoever in Alabama will have them — with their excavator between their legs. It seems they haven’t knocked off any socks with their performance thus far.