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St. Louis County Board argues over copper-nickel mining


VIRGINIA — Keith Nelson was “more than a little ticked off.”
A St. Louis County commissioner, Nelson, of Fayal Township, spent Tuesday criticizing three of his counterparts from Duluth for sending a letter to Minnesota’s U.S. senators and the federal nominees for the Secretary of Agriculture and Interior stating their opposition of copper-nickel mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Voyageurs National Park.
The problem, he said during the latest county meeting, was that the majority of the seven-member board had long backed PolyMet and Twin Metals and just passed a resolution 4-3 expressing their support for such projects. “Letters intended to deceive should not be sent by elected officials on this board or any board or city council,” he said. “And that is clearly what this letter is is an attempt to deceive.” ....

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