Effects of mining is Rosenmeier forum topic in Brainerd
The forum, titled “Mining the Climate Crisis: The Pros and Cons of Copper-Nickel Mining in Minnesota,” will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, April 29.
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The forum, titled “Mining the Climate Crisis: The Pros and Cons of Copper-Nickel Mining in Minnesota,” will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, April 29.
Speaking will be Julie Lucas, executive director of Mining Minnesota, and Kathryn Hoffman, CEO of the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy at the April 29 forum.
The company said it hadn't abandoned earlier plans, the focus of a Minnesota DNR review on whether the mining permit should be denied.
Last year, the DNR recommended the Minnesota Legislature consider whether four practices — tailings storage, reactive waste rock, smelting and heap leaching — were safe if carried out near the BWCAW.
The three-judge panel said there was 'no basis for disturbing' the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's 2021 decision awarding a permit for what would be the state's first copper-nickel mine