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Media Contact: Paula Maccabee, Executive Director and Counsel
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Email: paula@waterlegacy.org
WaterLegacy in the News
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: "Why should we trust Talon?"
Aitkin Independent Age | January 29, 2025
“Talon’s greenwashing is wearing thin. Aitkin County residents and Minnesotans downstream deserve to know the truth about the mine: Is the plan to process sulfide rock 500 miles away speculative? How enormous is the mine expected to be? Using real technology and at its forseeable size, how would this affect neighbors, workers, land, air and water?”
The PolyMet denouement is here
Threatened Waters/Rob Levine | January 11, 2025
Want to get caught up on what is happening with the PolyMet/Glencore mine project? Rob Levine has prepared an in-depth summary of the PolyMet regulatory process, warts and all.
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.”
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