Imbolc Waning Wild Moon
It’s late and I don’t want to get into too much detail, but I just came back from the capitol. The event was a hearing on the proposed sulfide mining operation in northern Minnesota called Northmet or Polymet. Like most hearings it went on too long and heard too much from too many people, but the depth and resonance of the environmental communities testimony made me proud to be there as part of it.
This issue is not going to go away because sulfide mining represents a real and ongoing threat to fragile wetlands, forests and watersheds, threatening to add mercury and other heavy metals, poisoning the very processes nature created to purify water and adding pollutants upstream from the Lake Superior watershed.
This one needs people on horses carrying red banners, trumpets blaring, and a town crier saying Beware, Beware, Beware.
