sulfide mining
I never met a Polymet I liked
I first heard about the proposed Polymet open pit mine some years ago and just as I feared it is getting closer and closer to becoming a reality.MORE »
OPINION | Native issues: Wild rice and sulfate levels
The 2011 Minnesota Legislature has adopted a two-pronged approach to American Indian concerns: allow increasing levels of water pollution to kill wild rice beds and expand gambling to wreck the tribal casino economy. It's really breathtaking - and it's a bipartisan effort.MORE »
Protect "Manoomin" wild rice from sulfates, say Native Americans
Video by Kristin Larsen
A group of Anishinaabeg and non-Native peoples gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol on Wednesday to protest proposed legislative changes that would remove the protection of “Manoomin,” or Minnesota wild rice from harmful sulfates. Native peoples consider Manoomin a spiritual food and a gift from their creator.MORE »
EPA's very negative environmental rating for Polymet sulfide mining
Editor's note: Although Minnesota politicians and many businesses and out-of-work miners on the Iron Range support Polymet's sulfide mining proposal, environmentalists strongly oppose it. The 714-page Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) has been issued and the MN Department of Natural Resources and the Army Corps of Engineers are in the process of considering thousands of comments submitted during the now-closed comment period, and moving toward a final, joint EIS. Now the federal Environmental Protection Agency has issued its opinion - a rare and very negative EU3 rating. Craig Stellmacher has the story: MORE »
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