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For Immediate Release, April 28, 2021 Contact:
Paula Maccabee, WaterLegacy, (651) 646-8890, paula@waterlegacy.org
Pete Marshall, Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, (612) 816-4475
Rita (Aspinwall) Karppinen, Fond du Lac Band, RitaKarppinen@fdlrez.com
Marc Fink, Center for Biological Diversity, (218) 464-0539, mfink@biologicaldiversity.org
Minnesota Supreme Court Overturns PolyMet Mining Permit, Sends It Back for New Hearing
ST. PAUL,
Minn. The Minnesota Supreme Court sided with clean water advocacy groups and the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa today, striking down PolyMet’s permit to mine and crippling the company’s sulfide mining proposal in northeastern Minnesota.
The court found that the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources was required to subject PolyMet’s mining plan to a contested case hearing before an impartial judge before granting PolyMet’s permits. The court also ruled
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