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Don’t let new law slow PolyMet<\/a>:<\/strong> Current regulations balance environmental, economic needs.<\/p>\n In its new get soft editorial stance The Star-Tribune glosses over the effects of sulfide mining.\u00a0 You might call sulfide mine operations serial rapists who use taxes and jobs as rohypnol for legislators and regulators.\u00a0 A news organization like the Star-Tribune should be immune, but they drank the kool-aid.<\/p>\n Here’s the problem.\u00a0 There is no instance–NO INSTANCE–where sulfide mining has failed to release toxic pollutants.\u00a0 These toxins range from the most common sulfuric acid to heavy metals like cadmium and mercury.\u00a0 Our neighbor Wisconsin has a moratorium on permits for sulfide mines, a moratorium that can be lifted only after a sulfide mine has operated for 10 years and proven itself pollution free in that time.<\/p>\n Northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan share certain geological similarities, among them the presence of copper and other minerals now deemed important for manufacturing.\u00a0 The first mine would not be the last.\u00a0 Far from it.\u00a0 There are more projects waiting in the wings for Polymet’s proposal to get the go ahead.<\/p>\n Mining in general is a resource frontier industry.\u00a0 That is, they go into an area with a natural resource, exploit it to exhaustion, then leave, often bankrupting in the individual mine to free up assets for further work in other\u00a0 areas.\u00a0 This means their insistence on the jobs they produce and the taxes they pay are no better than love’em and leave’em gifts to the lover who will, for sure, get left behind or married and abandoned with no support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Moon (Wild) Don’t let new law slow PolyMet: Current regulations balance environmental, economic needs. In its new get soft editorial stance The Star-Tribune glosses over the effects of sulfide mining.\u00a0 You might call sulfide mine operations serial rapists who use taxes and jobs as rohypnol for legislators and regulators.\u00a0 A news organization like … Continue reading Polymet<\/span>