Minnesota firms seek, and get, waivers to spew toxins

June 18, 2020

You’ve probably seen that the Environmental Protection Agency, which is essentially being destroyed thanks to the relentless corruption and mind-bogglingly pitiful stupidity of Trump and his Buffoon Brigade, was told a while back to essentially stop enforcing environmental protection laws, under cover of the COVID-19 pandemic. And you have to be awfully naive, not to […]

by Dan Burns

Bad court ruling, by Trump flunky, puts the BWCA at further risk

March 19, 2020

What a load of crap. A federal district court judge has ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s decision to reinstate federal mineral leases that could eventually lead to a sulfide-based copper-nickel mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. The decision, issued Monday, was not a surprise to opponents of the mine, who had expected […]

by Dan Burns

A shameless pitch for Drinking Liberally on February 6th

February 3, 2020

Fourteen years of bullshit -the eBook

by Steve Timmer

The incomplete evolution of Lee Schafer

February 1, 2020

Strolling down PolyMet Avenue with Lee

by Steve Timmer

On the court rejecting a mining company permit

December 10, 2019

Now with a 12/11 update . . .

by Steve Timmer

PolyMet permitting timeline

December 6, 2019

A companion to the eBook: Fourteen Years of Bullshit

by Steve Timmer

PolyMet – 14 Years Of Bullshit

November 30, 2019

files: epub | pdf | azw3* | mobi sites: amazon | apple | nook | kobo PolyMet: Fourteen Years of Bullshit is the story of ineptitude, inattention, and outright corruption by Minnesota and federal regulators in consideration of permits for copper sulfide mining near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota for PolyMet Mining, a Canadian penny-stock company and its shadowy […]

by Tony Petrangelo

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-big-hail-mary-can-jack-kemp-save-the-gop-14110

Why did a Court of Appeals Judge ask if PolyMet’s dam was a Hail Mary?

October 29, 2019

It’s more of a Lazarus, really

by Steve Timmer

Keep up the good work, people

October 6, 2019

I shudder to think where we’d be without you

by Steve Timmer

How do you drown-proof a mine? Part 2, a reprise

September 21, 2019

It’s still the question on everyone’s lips

by Steve Timmer

How do you drown-proof a mine? A reprise

September 21, 2019

It’s the question on everyone’s lips

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