Cool Water Hula.

• Position: Environmental protest in Butte, Montana - Brief Article

Butte, Montana

On July 9, more than 150 men and woman clad in matching blue sarongs danced a hula at the edge of the Berkeley Pit in Butte to call attention to its toxic waters. Former Butte resident Kristi Hager, an artist and a hula dancer for twenty years, led the event she dubbed the "Cool Water Hula." Once the largest open-pit copper mine in the United States, the Berkeley Pit was shut down in 1983. According to researchers from Montana Tech, the pit contains twenty-five billion...