{"id":617,"date":"2013-08-08T09:15:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T14:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/?p=617"},"modified":"2013-11-10T15:58:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T20:58:22","slug":"facts-and-fairy-tales-about-polymets-proposal-for-a-sulfide-mine-in-n-e-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/facts-and-fairy-tales-about-polymets-proposal-for-a-sulfide-mine-in-n-e-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts and Fairy-Tales about Polymet&#8217;s proposal for a Sulfide Mine in N.E. Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/YmctyYOtPZ8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-618\" alt=\"Polymeet is lide the Wolf presenting their Proposal about Sulfide Mining. \" src=\"http:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/LittleRedRidingHood.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>Paula Maccabee, General Counsel and Advocacy Directory for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waterlegacy.org\/polymet_project\">Water Legacy<\/a>\u00a0at Ely Tuesday Group, August 6, 2013. \u00a0A larger group than usual attended this event and many, from the questions asked and concerns shared, were new to the topic of Sulfide mining. From the response of the crowd, they were very appreciative of the work being done by all the individuals involved in educating the public about Sulfide and Hard Rock Mining. \u00a0 She talked about the facts, fiction and fairy-tales of the proposed Polymet Copper Nickel Sulfide Mine for Northeaster Minnesota. \u00a0She also pointed out some of the severe weaknesses in the Polymet plan and the dire consequences to the health and well being of people in the affected regions, the St. Louis River, Lake Superior watershed. \u00a0It will also have ramifications for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, as she explains. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/YmctyYOtPZ8\">You can see her complete talk here:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paula Maccabee, General Counsel and Advocacy Directory for Water Legacy at Ely Tuesday Group, August 6, 2013. A larger group than usual attended this event and many, from the questions asked and concerns shared, were new to the topic of Sulfide mining. From the response of the crowd, they were very appreciative of the work [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,118,172,160,80,119,165,3,70,63,159],"tags":[77,181,79,34,179,261,249,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"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=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}