Oct 10th Green Steel and Northland Opportunities, CCL and Jeff Hanson

You can find the CCL video (24 mins) here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4JyAWRuvsI

You can find the zoom recording of our Oct 10th meeting (including both video and discussion) here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/nYNCpZxeEBYbKdzT__RDbZO_ovMlRNTc4asS8IpIm28lJ1vJh2mX2MsjkmdAPrOm.RlIXLwDuXSMEBdrD
Passcode: 14Y#t=5C

Let your lawmakers and newspapers know you support these opportunities
Rep. Pete Stauber stauber.house.gov/contact
Sen Tina Smith smith.senate.gov/contact
Sen Amy Klobuchar klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-amy

Sen Grant Hauschild sen.grant.hauschild@senate.mn 
Rep Roger Skraba rep.roger.skraba@house.mn.gov
IRRRB https://mn.gov/irrrb/about-us/contact/
Find your legislators www.leg.mn.gov/leg/legislators
Timberjay marshall@timberjay.com
Ely Echo https://www.elyecho.com/letter-to-the-editor

SAMPLE – use this, or make changes, or write your own
Dear legislator xxxx
Climate change affects us all. In northern MN we need to use our resources to help reduce pollution from the iron and steel sector. We mine iron ore but then ship it away for processing and do not clean up the pollution affecting our waters and wild rice beds. Instead we could process the ore locally using our plentiful green energy supply, and we can also address the sulfate pollution to clean our lakes and rivers. This would produce clean steel which is needed in increasing supply for the energy transition and for iron-air batteries like those developed by Form Energy. It would also create clean environments and local high paying jobs. Our colleagues at Citizens’ Climate Lobby have made a short video on the topic. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4JyAWRuvsI Funding is available through the Inflation Reduction Act. MN has the ore, the clean wind power, the transportation infrastructure and the workers. We need to seize this opportunity.

Finally there is a meeting of the Mineland Vision Partnership (MVP) meeting focused on Climate Change in Chisholm on November 8^th 10 – 12am.  This meeting is open to the public and you may wish to attend. The CCL team will be making a presentation. MVP’s website https://mvpmn.org/ states “MVP is open to the public and encourages all interested stakeholders, whether private property owners, mining company representatives, business and community interests to engage in the organization’s activities.”

Thanks to our Northland CCL team for their leadership.

Barb