Duluth for Clean Water 🌎

Official account of grassroots Duluth for Clean Water. Incubator for spicy clean water content. Genuine defenders of Duluth. #stoppolymet

[Duluth for Clean Water 🌎 @DuluthWater]

Can you hear us now? (This is a PolyMet tweet. The @mndnr still has not barred the upstream dam design.) https://t.co/zF0rwQ3Tls

[@MCEA1974 @MCEA1974]

RELEASE: PolyMet air pollution permit stands, but the proposal is all but dead.

It's time for @GovTimWalz, @MnPCA and @mndnr to recognize the permits issued five years ago didn't meet the law or protect Minnesotans from pollution.

https://t.co/GI9lArBzxI

[Duluth for Clean Water 🌎 @DuluthWater]

Remember when we asked DNR to have a hearing on PolyMet before making decisions, and then DNR didn't do that, and then the courts made them do that? Right.

Now, the Judge has recommended that DNR DENY the permit. Tell Gov Walz to heed the recommendation! https://t.co/FX9oIO0goE

[Duluth for Clean Water 🌎 @DuluthWater]

Five years ago we were disappointed when @mndnr didn't order a contested case hearing on PolyMet. Now, after a CCH ordered by the courts, a judge has recommended what we've said all along: The PolyMet PTM should be DENIED.

Read more here: https://t.co/OlZUw51xRp @MCEA1974

[Duluth for Clean Water 🌎 @DuluthWater]

Drip splash water drip splash splash water. #stoppolymet

[Duluth for Clean Water 🌎 @DuluthWater]

"Precipitation is expected to keep rising...concentrated in major flooding events."

Our understanding is that the (suspended and revoked) PolyMet proposal does not account for this. We call on @mndnr and @MnPCA to elevate this issue on permit remand.

https://t.co/GGWpRFRgGs

[Duluth for Clean Water 🌎 @DuluthWater]

"Federal officials have also made clear the MPCA needs to enforce the sulfate standard, something the 2015 state law sought to curb."

Duluth harbor added impaired list, mercury in fish tissue. Among other things, this is why we can't have Polymet.

https://t.co/4NsTzsk4R4

[Duluth for Clean Water 🌎 @DuluthWater]

Tell us what y'all think.

[Duluth for Clean Water 🌎 @DuluthWater]

The Biden Admin just released new recommendations on mining standards for public lands. It's clear even on a cursory glance that the PolyMet proposal in MN does not live up to these recommendations in major ways. https://t.co/WoLHO34vqY 🧵

[Duluth for Clean Water 🌎 @DuluthWater]

@MEP_Duluth More importantly, the PolyMet proposal fails to live up to these recommendations, even as the boosters promote our "standards" and the PM plan.

[Duluth for Clean Water 🌎 @DuluthWater]

The Biden Admin just released new recommendations on mining standards for public lands. It's clear even on a cursory glance that the PolyMet proposal in MN does not live up to these recommendations in major ways. https://t.co/WoLHO34vqY 🧵

[Duluth for Clean Water 🌎 @DuluthWater]

...commitments to make baseline and environmental monitoring data public, demonstrating a certain level of compliance with an existing voluntary standards framework—such as IRMA, TSM, or another—or adopting other best practices mentioned in this report." PM has done none of this.

[Duluth for Clean Water 🌎 @DuluthWater]

"Engagement could include a demonstrated effort on the part of the mining company to obtain FPIC from an affected Tribal Nation, providing funding for Tribal Nations or impacted communities to hire their own experts to assist in evaluating exploration and development plans...."

[Duluth for Clean Water 🌎 @DuluthWater]

"In addition, the IWG recommends that the BLM and USFS evaluate updating risk factors and assumptions in light of increasing variability and intensity of storm related events and the potential for mining-related facilities remain on the landscape for decades, if not centuries."

[JT Haines, JD MPP @jt_haines]

ICYMI. The MN Supreme Court concurrence on the "serious disservice" done by our state @MnPCA to the Fond du Lac Band during the PolyMet review process. Unacceptable. @GovTimWalz

[Duluth for Clean Water 🌎 @DuluthWater]

See this pile of stuff? The sulfide mining industry's only answer to this is MORE piles of stuff. They don't have the answers Minnesota needs.
https://t.co/6Ag8OmHJfi

[@MCEA1974 @MCEA1974]

1 in 10 newborns in the Lake Superior Basin have toxic levels of mercury in their blood.

Mercury comes from global & local sources – a major one being air emissions from taconite facilities.

This continues to be a key EJ issue in NE MN.

https://t.co/Lvuc7NItcQ

[Duluth for Clean Water 🌎 @DuluthWater]

The Mt. Polley dam catastrophe happened 9 years ago today, in British Columbia. Here's a piece we wrote about it in Minnesota after a visit to Duluth from our friends to the North. #NotoPolyMet #NotoGlencore https://t.co/gGAVTfuE88