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

September 21, 2019

It’s still the question on everyone’s lips

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

Environmental justice in sulfide mining

August 16, 2019

A letter to the governor

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

How do you drown-proof a mine? Part 2

October 30, 2015

It’s still the question on everyone’s lips

by Steve Timmer