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Pres. Biden doesn’t seem to see a need for PolyMet

May 28, 2021

Or for new mining, sulfide or otherwise, in general. From earlier this week: U.S. President Joe Biden will rely on ally countries to supply the bulk of the metals needed to build electric vehicles and focus on processing them domestically into battery parts, part of a strategy designed to placate environmentalists, two administration officials with […]

by Dan Burns

Same song, thousandth verse

March 19, 2021

A sulfide mining fan sings an old song

by Steve Timmer

There’s something rotten in Minnesota, a reprise

September 6, 2020

A story from September of 2019

by Steve Timmer

The DNR and PCA don’t deserve a pass from the Supreme Court

July 25, 2020

Important cases are pending before the Minnesota high court

by Steve Timmer

PolyMet: Fourteen Years of Bullshit, the eBook

December 2, 2019

With a link to free ePub, azw3, and mobi format copies, and as a PDF, too

by Steve Timmer

Never mind Denmark, there’s something rotten in Minnesota

September 16, 2019

Revelation after revelation

by Steve Timmer

Fourteen years of bullshit

August 25, 2019

In an opinion piece in the Strib, Nancy McReady, president of Conservationists with Common Sense (a “charity” whose last 990 reported on Guidestar is from 1998, even though it participates in the GiveMN program) says that there have been fourteen years of transparency in the permitting of the PolyMet pit mine. Governor Walz hummed a […]

by Steve Timmer

Environmentalist Bob Tammen wins a Spotty ™

August 24, 2019

For this letter in the Star Tribune on Thursday, August 22nd, Bob Tammen wins the coveted Spotty™. As a miner, I know this won’t work The Star Tribune’s Aug. 19 opinion page had an interesting juxtaposition: a counterpoint by Nancy McCready promoting PolyMet (“Transparency, PolyMet foes demand. If only they’d noticed 14 years of it”) […]

by Steve Timmer

Minnesota’s investment follies

August 2, 2019

Word comes via the Star Tribune that Minnesota’s investment board has invested in Glencore, Antofagasta, and Enbridge. Swell. In addition to the teensy conflict of interest it presents (all are supplicants to Minnesota agencies), this makes some members of the environmental community, well, gag, on a general level. Some people are asking for divestiture. As […]

by Steve Timmer

Richard Painter for U.S. Senate

July 30, 2018

August 3rd: Now with important updates

by Steve Timmer

The Annals of Muffing It

June 13, 2018

Last Friday, June 8th, Tina Smith pulled the most odious stunt of her admittedly short senatorial career. I am reluctant to call Tina Smith a senator because she never won the job in an election. She is an incumbent in only the most jocular sense. When she was appointed to the job by Governor Dayton, I […]

by Steve Timmer

Trust us; we’re good for it

May 14, 2017

Minnesota’s mining regulators at the Land and Minerals Division of the Department of Natural Resources face a stiff test of fidelity to the citizens of Minnesota as described in an article by Josephine Marcotty in the Strib’s paper edition on May 14th. The issue is: what are the financial reserves that must be set aside […]

by Steve Timmer