In Response: Stauber loves permitting process for mining but wants to change it?
From the column: For environmentalists, there is the need for updating Minnesota’s permitting laws because we have a broken system that does not adequately protect Minnesota’s clean water from the threat of copper-sulfide mining.
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PolyMet is reusing and reclaiming the former LTV Steel Mining site near Hoyt Lakes. (Photo courtesy of PolyMet Mining)
The News Tribune’s April 21 editorial (Our View: “Don t apply mine permitting fixes mid-process”) was right to suggest that Congressman Pete Stauber is being hypocritical by calling for updated mining laws while frequently praising Minnesota’s environmental-review laws as among the strictest in the world. If we have such a good process, and he wants PolyMet and Twin Metals to “follow the process,” why is he calling for updated laws?
Enbridge-funded account reimburses more than $500,000 to law enforcement along Line 3
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Enbridge-funded account reimburses more than $500,000 to law enforcement along Line 3
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Enbridge-funded account reimburses more than $500,000 to law enforcement along Line 3
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Enbridge-funded account reimburses more than $500,000 to law enforcement along Line 3
Activists say it incentivizes more policing of protests while first responders say it keeps the burden off taxpayers. 1:53 pm, Apr. 26, 2021 ×
Firefighters and law enforcement personnel talk with Phoenix, an enrolled member of White Earth Nation, in a trench on the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline project near Reponen Road near Sawyer on Jan. 22, 2021. Phoenix stayed in the ditch for a couple of hours before being arrested. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
For expenses ranging from gas masks and holsters, to moving a piano used by protesters and adding extra portable toilets at jails, northern Minnesota law enforcement and fire departments along the Line 3 oil pipeline route are being reimbursed by an Enbridge-funded account managed by the state.