DNR contested case hearing will examine PolyMet use of bentonite clay in NorthMet mining permit duluthnewstribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from duluthnewstribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Marshall Helmberger
REGIONAL The state’s Court of Appeals has remanded PolyMet Mining’s air permit back to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) for further proceedings. That decision, issued Monday, was just the latest setback for the company, which hopes to eventually open its NorthMet copper-nickel mine near Hoyt Lakes. Four of PolyMet’s major permits have been reversed, remanded, or suspended over the past two and a half years.
The decision comes five months after the state’s Supreme Court handed PolyMet and the MPCA a partial victory in the same case, when it determined that the state regulatory agency had no obligation to investigate whether PolyMet was engaging in so-called “sham permitting,” by seeking an air permit for a substantially smaller facility than the company intended to build.
Court sends PolyMet air permit back to MPCA minnlawyer.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from minnlawyer.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Minnesota Appeals Court rejects PolyMet air permit, new setback for the planned mine The MPCA needed to clearly address whether mining firm was engaged in sham permitting, judges find. March 23, 2020 8:24pm Text size Copy shortlink:
The Minnesota Court of Appeals has rejected another permit for PolyMet Mining Corp. s proposed copper-nickel mine, this time for its air emissions.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), which issued the air permit in 2018, should have looked harder at whether PolyMet plans to expand the state s first copper-nickel mine well beyond the limits imposed by the permit, the three-judge panel concluded in its unanimous decision released Monday.
Minnesota court sends PolyMet air permit case back to agency
July 19, 2021
FacebookTwitterEmail
FILE - This Feb. 10, 2016 file photo shows a former iron ore processing plant near Hoyt Lakes, Minn., that would become part of a proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine. The proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine in northern Minnesota encountered a setback Monday, July 19, 2021, when the state Court of Appeals ordered regulators to revisit a critical air emissions permit given to the project.Jim Mone/AP
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine in northern Minnesota encountered a setback Monday when the state Court of Appeals ordered regulators to revisit a critical air emissions permit given to the project.