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Sulfide mining: the most fateful decision Minnesota will ever make
Minnesota’s clean – incredibly rare – wealth of freshwater is its future.
C.A. Arneson
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Minnesota’s water war
The area encompassing the Duluth Complex is both a life source and a buffer for the waters of northeastern Minnesota, and beyond.
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When it comes to sulfide mining, let’s use ‘pro-water’ and ‘anti-water’ to describe stances
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.
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PolyMet will not protect Minnesota’s waters
A mining company can have a permit, violate standards, and still be in compliance with its permit.
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Minnesota needs solid research on mercury contamination and its sources
Set the politics aside and do the science. Protect Minnesota’s children from toxic mercury poisoning.
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Minnesota and mining: Our children, our waters and wild rice are political pawns
Will we protect our water, and in so doing protect our health? Protect our children?
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Why proposed solutions to sulfide-mine pollution won’t work
Financial assurance, reverse osmosis and compromise have been promoted as viable ways to protect Lake Superior and the BWCA.
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Are sulfates and methylmercury killing Minnesota’s moose?
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.
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In Minnesota, we need to value our children at least as much as wild rice
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.”
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St. Croix’s mega-bridge will mostly benefit corporations, not citizens
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.