Posts Tagged: clean water

NorthMet tries new tricks to gain approval

Posted August 24th, 2024 by Matt Doll & filed under Loon Commons blog.

Matt Doll, Minnesota Environmental Partnership The NorthMet copper-nickel mining project (formerly PolyMet) proposed near Babbitt and Hoyt Lakes hasn’t exactly met with success in the past few years. NorthMet’s state… Read more »

Hundreds from across Minnesota rally at Capitol to “Protect our Water!”

Posted April 24th, 2017 by Matt Doll & filed under Loon Commons blog.

Hundreds from across Minnesota rally at Capitol to “Protect our Water!” Governor Dayton, Winona LaDuke, Ann Bancroft among speakers rallying for Minnesota’s water St. Paul, Minnesota – On April 19, a… Read more »

MEP House Omnibus Legacy Bill Letter – April 4, 2017

Posted April 4th, 2017 by Matt Doll & filed under Letters to Lawmakers.

April 4, 2017 Dear Members of the Minnesota House: We, the undersigned organizations and the citizens we represent, respectfully ask you to vote NO on the H.F. 707 – the… Read more »

Letter to Senators on Environment Omnibus Bill, S.F. 723

Posted March 29th, 2017 by Matt Doll & filed under Letters to Lawmakers.

Dear Members of the Minnesota Senate: We, the undersigned organizations and the citizens we represent, ask you vote NO on the Senate Omnibus Environment and Natural Resources Budget Bill, S.F…. Read more »

First Test of 2013 MN Frac Sand Law is Successful

Posted July 31st, 2014 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Energy, EQB and Environmental Review, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Global Warming, Health, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog, oil, rural, Water.

By Johanna Rupprecht, Land Stewardship Project The owner of a controversial Houston County silica sand mine was notified Monday by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) that he must… Read more »