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Media Contact: Paula Maccabee, Executive Director and Counsel
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Email: paula@waterlegacy.org
WaterLegacy in the News
Minnesota DNR announces new mine proposal from Talon Metals
Cook County News-Herald | January 3, 2025
“Paula Maccabee, Executive Director and Counsel for WaterLegacy, explains, “Talon’s greenwashing is wearing thin. The purpose of its proposed mine, unsurprisingly, is simply to extract sulfide ores for profit.” Maccabee continued, “Even more troubling, Talon is asking Minnesota to approve a sketchy sulfide mine proposal when Talon doesn’t have the foggiest idea how they would process any ore that might be mined in our Mississippi River watershed. Talon is wasting Minnesota’s time to review a project based on speculative technology that isn’t even at a pilot project stage. Nothing about Talon’s sulfide mine proposal is trustworthy.””
Twenty years after first proposed, NewRange still vying to build Minnesota’s first copper mine
MPR News | December 23, 2024
““I think that this is one of the very few times when the playing field was leveled just enough for the underdog to stop a very big and dangerous project,” added [Paula] Maccabee [WaterLegacy Executive Director and Counsel]. “But I want people to understand this is not the rule. This is an exception.””
EPA investigating taconite mine for pollution that threatens wild rice
Star Tribune | December 19, 2024
“There is evidence that rice in Hay Lake has suffered. The group WaterLegacy, arguing in court in support of MPCA’s decision, peppered its brief with pictures of flattened rice beds and rotting stalks collected in field surveys by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.”
Huge 'Wall of Water' Could Devastate Great Lake
Newsweek | December 5, 2024
“”Designing a tailings dam where a failure is going to result in a collapse that will spew toxic waste into Lake Superior and could lead to a toxic mudslide into the homes and businesses of two towns makes no sense according to modern science and evidence,” Paula Maccabee, an attorney for WaterLegacy, told Newsweek.”
Breaking Point: Minnesota’s mining legacy includes massive lake of wastewater
Great Lakes Now | November 26, 2024
“According to WaterLegacy, the proportion of polluted wastewater at Mile Post 7 is close to the breaking point, due to 45 years of perpetual use, and the liquification of course tailings into fine tailings. This growing layer of sediment at the bottom of the basin has created unstable conditions, especially considering the company’s request to make the basin taller and add upstream dams. Maccabee compares the expansion to a bread-bowl lunch, with “too much soup and not enough bread.””
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