February 3rd, 2012 | 
AnonymousNEXT STEPS: Agencies are preparing a Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS), expected some time after June, 2012. We understand it will include responses to the unprecedented 3,700+ public comments submitted by February 3, 2010. It will be expanded to include the impacts of the proposed land exchange with the U.S. Forest Service. And it will include the U.S.
Tags: Polymet
October 23rd, 2009 | AnonymousPolyMet takes next steps for controversial mine
by Stephanie Hemphill, Minnesota Public Radio
Online: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/10/22/polymet-mine/ (includes Audio and pictures)
Tags: environmental review, EPA, fish advisories, MDNR, mercury, permits, Polymet, sulfide, toxic metals, Tribal impacts, water pollution, wild rice
March 20th, 2009 | AnonymousPolyMet Strip Mine Facts – Flaws in Project and Science
Before citizens had an official opportunity to comment on the proposed PolyMet open-pit metallic sulfide mine near Hoyt Lakes, WaterLegacy had reviewed an interim draft of this EIS released in December 2008, called the Complete Preliminary Draft Environmental Impact Statement (CPDEIS). Based on this draft, we believed that there were important flaws in both, the PolyMet project and the adequacy of the science used to evaluate its impacts. WaterLegacy sent a letter to the State and Federal agencies detailing our concerns.
Click here to READ the complete 12-page Letter to the Agencies on PolyMet CPDEIS Gaps.
