Community Voices
“We need these minerals.” A mining supporter repeated the industry mantra yet again. No matter that our waters are more important and more valuable than those minerals.
Community Voices
Dry stacking of mine waste is not a panacea. Look at the other mines that employ it and see how successful they are at protecting the environment.
Community Voices
Minnesota’s clean – incredibly rare – wealth of freshwater is its future.
Community Voices
The area encompassing the Duluth Complex is both a life source and a buffer for the waters of northeastern Minnesota, and beyond.
Community Voices
No one promoting sulfide mining in Minnesota can say they are pro-clean water, not when the reality of sulfide mining is perpetual water pollution.
Community Voices
A mining company can have a permit, violate standards, and still be in compliance with its permit.
Community Voices
Set the politics aside and do the science. Protect Minnesota’s children from toxic mercury poisoning.
Community Voices
Will we protect our water, and in so doing protect our health? Protect our children?
Community Voices
Financial assurance, reverse osmosis and compromise have been promoted as viable ways to protect Lake Superior and the BWCA.
Community Voices
Before we conclude that there is nothing we can do to halt the “precipitous” decline of Minnesota’s moose, we need to find out just what is killing them.
Community Voices
On Wednesday, Jan. 16, the Wild Rice Advisory Committee will meet in Duluth at the MPCA regional office to narrow down the definition of “water used for production of wild rice.”
Community Voices
What was on the Wisconsin side of the St. Croix River, across from Stillwater, that was driving the so-called need for a mega-bridge? Frac sand.
Community Voices
We cannot plead ignorance, or use the semi-truth of “it was another era,” to excuse mining-industry practices that cause pollution.
Community Voices
PolyMet VP Bradley Moore may be a nice guy, but he also showed himself recently to be a skillful evader.
Community Voices
Where is the non-polluting sulfide mining company that has done it “right?” I guess Duluth Metals could not find one.
