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WaterLegacy in the News
DNR Dilemma
Ampers / North Star Stories | March 14, 2025
“The appeal court’s ruling now faces an uncertain future as the case moves to the Minnesota Supreme Court, the outcome remains pivotal. This could either stand as a significant step toward legal accountability and heighten scrutiny on these issues, or it could be reversed, leaving critical environmental and safety concerns unresolved.”
—R. Vincent Moniz Jr.
R. Vincent Moniz Jr. of Ampers / North Star Stories spoke with WaterLegacy Executive Director and Counsel Paula Maccabee about WaterLegacy’s ongoing litigation on Mile Post 7.
Local View: Hay Lake should be healthy; Keetac drainage a problem
Opinion by Mike Maleska for Duluth News Tribune | February 18, 2025
“Hay Lake is a water body I’ve known well for 60 years. […] As kids, a good friend of mine and I hunted, roamed, fished, and explored all over this area.
I remember the water entering Hay Lake was clear. There was a beautiful long sandbar and behind that sandbar was where the wild rice beds began, spreading around the west and south sides of the lake and continuing down Hay Creek.
For decades now, though, the water has come to appear tan with a hint of greyish green; it is definitely not clear.”
Minnesota DNR urged to reconsider environmental review for Mile Post 7 tailings project
Quetico Superior Wilderness News | February 6, 2025
“Executive Director and Counsel Paula Maccabee said, “This is an important victory. The Court’s ruling rejects Northshore’s claims that its massive tailings dam expansion is exempt from environmental review. It warns the DNR that previous environmental reviews and permits do not allow them to bypass scrutiny of a proposed mining project.””
Appeals court: DNR made legal error in Northshore decision
The Timberjay | February 6, 2025
“In overruling the DNR, the judges sided with the environmental group WaterLegacy, which had appealed the DNR decision last April, citing an unstable upstream dam design that “had the potential to harm human life, health, and the environment by increasing the likelihood and severity of catastrophic tailings dam failure.””
Appeals court tells DNR to revisit Milepost 7 environmental study decision
Duluth News Tribune | February 3, 2025
““If it’s going to increase the likelihood or the severity of a catastrophic dam failure, then DNR should make Northshore look at alternatives, and that’s really the crux of it,” [Paula] Maccabee said. “By pretending there’s no environmental impacts, DNR has not required Northshore to look at choices that would be safer for the communities living downstream of this tailings dam, and actually, for people all along the North Shore that rely on the quality of water in Lake Superior.””
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