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Marshall Helmberger
REGIONAL Both sides were claiming victory on Wednesday after the Minnesota Supreme Court delivered a mixed verdict on key permits for the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine near Hoyt Lakes.
The high court reversed parts of the ruling issued by the Court of Appeals back in January 2020, which had ordered a contested case hearing on disputes over the method of tailings dam construction, financial assurance, and the role of PolyMet’s majority owner, Glencore, in the permitting process. The high court found that the Department of Natural Resources had acted within its discretion when it denied a request by the groups Water Legacy, the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, the Fond du Lac Band, and others, for a contested case hearing to present evidence contrary to the DNR’s position on the permits in question. That finding means a contested case hearing won’t be required to address those issues.
Marshall Helmberger
REGIONAL Tribal nations from across Minnesota are accusing state regulators of bad faith over their continuing failure to address longstanding pollution concerns, many stemming from lax regulation of the Iron Range’s taconite industry.
Despite recent legal victories, tribal officials and their environmental allies contend that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency continues to drag its feet on enforcement of sulfate standards to protect wild rice as well as other pollution concerns. At the same time, they argue that agency officials haven’t always been candid about the extent of pollution from major sources.
They cite U.S. Steel’s Minntac tailings basin as a case in point. For several years, MPCA officials had argued that they had addressed pollution discharges from that tailings basin into the Sand River, by requiring the company to pump outflows from a discharge point back behind the basin’s dike. The MPCA used that requirement as justification fo
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