Every single place that Copper-Nickle-Sulfide mining has been done — every. single. location. — the mining companies left behind a destroyed landscape. There have been no exceptions.<\/p>\n
This sort of mining can not be done without destroying the landscape.<\/p>\n
It is quite possible that Minnesota’s boundary waters are not saving, and we should just mine out the copper.<\/p>\n
Or, not.<\/p>\n
Look: <\/p>\n
Want to see for yourself what\u2019s at stake if the proposed PolyMet open pit copper-nickel mine is permitted in Northern Minnesota? Watch this new documentary, \u201cJourney to Protect Minnesota\u2019s Waters: Revealing the Contested PolyMet Mine Site,\u201d shot on the proposed PolyMet mine location on Minnesota\u2019s Partridge River in the Lake Superior Basin. <\/p>\n
Featured in this 14-minute video filmed by Robin Heil are interviews with Fond du Lac elder, Ricky W. DeFoe, WaterLegacy advocacy director Paula Maccabee and forester Matt Tyler; and original music by Twin Cities guitarist Timothy \u201dBrother Timothy\u201d Frantzich and Powwow Singer Algin Garyt Goodsky as well as the breathtaking scenery of the Partridge River in the Lake Superior watershed. <\/p>\n
For more information on how you protect the Lake Superior and Boundary Waters watersheds from toxic mining pollution that would lead to an environmental catastrophe, visit http:\/\/waterlegacy.org<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n