John Roth
Bryan HanselGreat news! Biden protects vast wilderness area in Minnesota from mining
Photo from the Boundary Waters which was just protected from toxic sulfide mining.
This is an unlocked link to the article:
https://wapo.st/3HzEs9p
Shar_shar@bryanhansel ...lovely photograph!
Jeannie@bryanhansel
I Stand with Biden.
I Stand with Biden.
Nonya Bidniss 🥥🌴@bryanhansel Wonderful. I've spent many magical days canoeing through the Boundary Waters. It's a hidden gem.
Jonathan Quist@bryanhansel
I recently inherited some land in that vicinity, part of the Grand Portage reservation. I get periodic statements from the Department of the Interior on funds credited my account due to the mineral rights for the parcels.
So far, every statement has said my balance is $0.
I am, quite frankly, very happy to learn that will continue to be the case.
@JonathanQuist I don't believe there are any deposits on the reservation, but I could be wrong. It's such good news after fighting this for years.
I honestly don't know anything about sulfide mining. When I was a kid that general region (compressing the whole of the Minnesota shoreline on Superior into "one place) was heavily invested in taconite mining for copper... So I tend to think of the whole region as "at risk".
All efforts to preserve this wilderness are greatly appreciated!
@JonathanQuist taconite mining is iron. Sulfide mines mines deposits that include tiny amounts of copper. When the waste gets exposed to water, it creates sulfuric acid and other toxic slurries.
The Lake Superior watershed is still threatened by the Glencore/PolyMet proposal. It's baffling that some people in MN want Glencore operating here. I'd love to see a list of ppl Glencore bribed to see if any MN politicians are on that list.
There's also a proposal in the Mississippi River watershed.
Okay, now I'm confusing taconite with a minor encounter in Copper Harbor 50+ years ago. 🙄🤔
We happened to drive under an ore train near there one night in a pouring rainstorm. I remember the car covered with rust streaks the next morning.
And I just looked at your profile, and was surprised to see the town of my grandmother's birth. Many childhood lunches of smoked chub along the harbor, enroute to or from Fort William.
@JonathanQuist it's a small world!
Laurie S@bryanhansel Such great news ❤️
Evey@bryanhansel Wonderful to hear. THis pic is beautiful.
Tracy
David@bryanhansel if we don’t do any mining in this country, just where are we supposed to get lithium, nickel, cobalt, and rare earths for all of these EVs? Do we just let other countries who use child labor, or don’t have the same safety standards do the mining instead?
Lakitu316@bryanhansel good news like this definitely makes my night
NotPOTUS34@bryanhansel I spent a week canoe camping in Boundary Waters Wilderness circa early 1980’s. It is a truly wonderful place. This was, I think, in early September. I must have seen some others canoeists but I have no recollection of doing so. The designated camping sites were mine for the taking. Recommended!
tltroup@bryanhansel wonderful news!! BWCA is a gorgeous area and deserves more protection. I hope federal $$ will be invested in the region, too.
Photo of a lake in the foreground is the prow of a yellow canoe, in the mid and background are shorelines with pines. The sky is overcast.
AndyHThe land of 10,000 lakes.
@bryanhansel
Looks just the same as it did on our three day, 5 portage circular canoe trip 50 years ago, before we were married. Thank you Joe for preserving it!
Looks just the same as it did on our three day, 5 portage circular canoe trip 50 years ago, before we were married. Thank you Joe for preserving it!
InsertUser@bryanhansel sounds like the sulphine mines are pre-existing, the new ban is on things like copper.
@InsertUser there are not any sulfide mines in Minnesota currently. Sulfide mines would mine the trace amount of copper in the sulfide-bearing rocks. There are currently taconite mines, aka iron, in Minnesota. Those are in a different type of rock.
Here's more info if you want to understand it: https://www.friends-bwca.org/sulfide-mining/
Kosch@bryanhansel
Great news...great photo (I imagine that scene would look a little different right now!)
Great news...great photo (I imagine that scene would look a little different right now!)
@Kosch we have a little bit of snow and ice up here now. :)