#Minnesota Star Tribune: "Company seeks to expand massive lake of mine waste near North Shore"

#Journalist: Chloe Johnson

#Photojournalist: Lori Andresen, Yuqing Liu, Aaron Lavinsky, Yuqing Liu, Mike Zerby

#ClevelandCliffs, owner of the Northshore Mining which processes #taconite on the shores of #LakeSuperior, wants to expand its 2,150 acre waste tailings 'pond'.

They don't think the 1976 #EnvironmentImpactStatement from #MN #DNR needs an update

https://archive.ph/GWbQ5

#mnpol #news #Strib

Duluth, MN harbor is almost completely frozen over now.

(The Anderson was the last ship to have contact with the Edmund Fitzgerald before she sank)

Video: Arthur M. Anderson - Historic Great Lakes Steamer - Struggles Through the Ice
https://youtu.be/KPe1LIb8fW4

#LakeSuperior #Duluth #Duloot #LakeFreighter #IronOre #Taconite #Shipping #GreatLakes