{"id":13,"date":"2009-12-16T18:58:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T23:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2012-09-16T13:35:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T18:35:57","slug":"polymet-pep-rally-in-aurora-mn-december-9-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/polymet-pep-rally-in-aurora-mn-december-9-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Polymet Pep Rally in Aurora, MN  December 9, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota DNR allowed politicians to control the format of this public meeting and turn an informational public meeting into a Pep Rally for Polymet, a Cu Ni Sulfide Rock mining company. No public comment was allowed. Bused in miners, at whose expense we don&#8217;t know, wore stickers and sweatshirts shouting their support for Polymet. &#8220;Desperate for Jobs&#8221; was the cry. Informational tables setup with knowledgeable scientists from the DNR and Minnesota Pollution Control agency were present. But, as with the &#8220;comments accepted&#8221; by stenographer, special effort had to be made to by those concerned with major environmental issues glossed over by the rally.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Polyment Pep Rally Video Dec 2009\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/8216876\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12\" title=\"Polymet Pep Rally\" src=\"http:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/PolymetPepRally.jpg\" alt=\"The news read &quot; Government meeting on openness closed to the public&quot;\" width=\"238\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The news read &#8221; Government meeting on openness closed to the public&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota DNR allowed politicians to control the format of this public meeting and turn an informational public meeting into a Pep Rally for Polymet, a Cu Ni Sulfide Rock mining company. No public comment was allowed. Bused in miners, at whose expense we don&#8217;t know, wore stickers and sweatshirts shouting their support for Polymet. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,54,119],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}