The numbers guys win a Spotty ™

October 29, 2015

Criticizing the Pride of the Business Press

by Steve Timmer

How do you drown-proof a mine?

October 28, 2015

It’s the question on everyone’s lips

by Steve Timmer

Put your best mine forward

October 26, 2015

In order to help him figure out whether copper-nickel sulfide mining is the cat’s pajamas or the worst idea in the history of ideas, Governor Dayton is going to visit two mines: one chosen by the mining romantics, and one by the people who choose to plan more than six weeks into the future, the […]

by Steve Timmer

“Leave no nest unshitted!”

October 24, 2015

Kurt Daudt, 2015

by Steve Timmer

What do you do when your Sugar Daddy is out of sugar?

September 24, 2015

Please see the updates below. This is no doubt the question on the minds of all of the bright lights at PolyMet Mining at the moment. You see, PolyMet recently released its second quarter financials, and it made just as much money in the last quarter as it has ever quarter of its existence, going […]

by Steve Timmer

Puppet on a string – a reprise

August 14, 2015

I’m Your Puppet! sings PolyMet

by Steve Timmer

No “we” in the GOP

August 10, 2015

GOP = first person singular possessive case

by Jeff Wilfahrt

Hiring more dingoes as babysitters – a reprise

August 7, 2015

When “catastrophe” is putting it charitably

by Steve Timmer

Glencore: corporate citizen – a reprise

August 6, 2015

The sound you hear is scales falling

by Steve Timmer

Another abandoned sulfide rock mine spill

August 6, 2015

But not to worry, all the aquatic life was already killed a long time ago

by Steve Timmer

Hubris and blandishments

July 21, 2015

It hasn’t been much in the news around here, but in more sentient parts of the world, notice has been made of the fact that the United States’ monument to the Cold War — the Runit Dome, or the Tomb, to the locals — is leaking radiation after having built a mere 35 years ago. Swell. This is […]

by Steve Timmer

You want Dill on that Tomassoni?

May 20, 2015

[I’ve been indisposed and haven’t written much for a while. Sorry.] The close of the recent legislative session will probably set the bar for skullduggery on a number of fronts, not the least of which is the environment. HF 846, the odious Agriculture and Environment Omnibus Budget Bill contains a lot of policy in it — bad policy — […]

by Steve Timmer