Iron Range mine could pollute water for up to 500 years (Lake Superior)

[NickB79]

http://www.startribune.com/local/226548091.html?refer=y

A proposed copper-nickel mine in northeast Minnesota would generate water pollution for up to 500 years and require billions of dollars in long-term cleanup costs, state regulators have concluded as they near a key stage in the project’s review.

The mine would require what critics say is essentially perpetual water treatment — a first in Minnesota’s long history of mining — to remove pollutants and heavy metals that would otherwise flow into nearby streams and rivers and eventually Lake Superior, according to a draft environmental impact statement.

Hey, no big deal, right?

[postulater]

1. The watershed drains right through some of the remaining productive wild rice

range that would be devastated if this goes through.

It WILL NOT be allowed. It may be approved, but it will NOT be allowed.... by the people who live there and their friends.

There's too much at stake.

[glinda]

2. And they are still debating if it should go through!!!!!!! lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Scuba]

3. Same here in Wisconsin. Why is the right so hellbent on polluting all our water?