{"id":53,"date":"2010-01-05T20:58:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T01:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2012-09-16T13:34:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T18:34:31","slug":"comments-on-polymet-deis-by-native-americans-address-critical-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/comments-on-polymet-deis-by-native-americans-address-critical-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Comments on Polymet DEIS by Native Americans address Critical Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Issues raised by Native Americans in their<a href=\"http:\/\/waterlegacy.org\/sites\/default\/files\/TribalFindingsDEIS_WLexcerpt.pdf\"> &#8220;POLYMET DEIS &#8211;Tribal Cooperating Agencies Alternative Findings and Perspectives&#8221; <\/a>should be seioursly heeded by the DNR and regulatory agencies.\u00a0 This is a through analysis of the DEIS and will be ignored or maginalized by &#8220;the powers that be&#8221; at the peril of all peoples of Minnesota.\u00a0 We are just hoping someone is listening and paying attention to these thoughtful citizens.<\/p>\n<p>For example, for those who are interested in the science and claim little or no impact, that is highly debatable.\u00a0 The Cooperating Agencies write,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The view that mine pit dewatering impacts will be very limited or non-existent (Adams, John and Michael Liljegren. 2009 \u201cAdditional PolyMet peatland data \/ information.\u201d email communication to Stuart Arkley. February 1, 2009) is based on the assumption that there is little or no connection between\u00a0 the bedrock and surficial aquifers (GLIFWC 2009, Memorandum to Jon Ahlness and Stuart Arkley: Photographic evidence for pit impacts to wetland hydrology.\u00a0 April 24, 2009). However, the scant data that does exist characterizing mine site hydrology suggests that there may be substantial connection between the bedrock and surficial aquifers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How can any scientist claim &#8220;limited or non-existent impacts&#8221;\u00a0 when in fact the science &#8220;suggests that there may be substantial connection between the bedrock and surficial aquifers.&#8221;\u00a0 If there is any question at all, we should not proceed.\u00a0 When we know for certain our waters will not be polluted, then we may proceed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issues raised by Native Americans in their &#8220;POLYMET DEIS &#8211;Tribal Cooperating Agencies Alternative Findings and Perspectives&#8221; should be seioursly heeded by the DNR and regulatory agencies. This is a through analysis of the DEIS and will be ignored or maginalized by &#8220;the powers that be&#8221; at the peril of all peoples of Minnesota. We are [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,5,119,3],"tags":[20,19,17,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}