Fwd: Use Your Voice Now to Protect Minnesota from PolyMet Pollution
From: patty guerrero (pattypaxicloud.com)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 14:33:02 -0800 (PST)
HI Folks,  Anther way you could reach the governor on this important issue.   
Gayle Cole just sent this to me.   Call or email or write letter , or all 3.   
Thanks, patty

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> From: gayle cole <gaco78 [at] gmail.com>
> Subject: Fwd: Use Your Voice Now to Protect Minnesota from PolyMet Pollution
> Date: January 17, 2019 at 11:30:34 AM CST
> To: RBaker <rdbaker12 [at] gmail.com>, patty guerrero <pattypax [at] 
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> This just came through my inbox.  I know that I've gotten emails to call on 
> this issue.  For people who might want to weigh in, but would rather do it by 
> email, I think that this letter is a good one.
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> Date: Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 11:01 AM
> Subject: Use Your Voice Now to Protect Minnesota from PolyMet Pollution
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> You may have read that written comments of career professionals at the U.S. 
> Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may have been withheld or suppressed 
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> Do you want decisions on the PolyMet sulfide mine to be based on science and 
> evidence, instead of backroom deals with powerful interests? Take action to 
> stay and  and reopen permits that would allow toxic PolyMet water pollution 
> in Minnesota’s Lake Superior watershed.
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> Ask Gov. Walz and Lt. Gov. Flanagan to Reopen Weak Permits and Hold Contested 
> Case Hearings on PolyMet’s Water Pollution Permit & Certification 
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> Minnesota law requires a contested case hearing when there are important 
> disputes of fact about permits. On December 20, 2018, the Minnesota Pollution 
> Control Agency (MPCA) denied Minnesotans any chance to have a fact-based 
> hearing in front of a neutral administrative law judge on PolyMet water 
> pollution or wetlands destruction.
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> Why hold a contested case hearing? Because many critical facts – like whether 
> the PolyMet project will increase toxic mercury contamination of fish in 
> downstream waters – were decided by MPCA based on PolyMet’s claims with no 
> objective trier-of-fact and no chance to ask questions about PolyMet’s 
> unsupported assumptions. 
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> Ask Gov. Walz to Stay and Reopen MPCA’s Decision to Deny Contested Case 
> Hearings on PolyMet 
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> Groups representing 30,000 Minnesota doctors, nurses and other health 
> professionals have expressed concern about the risk of mercury contamination 
> of fish from the proposed PolyMet project. One of the world’s leading mercury 
> experts concluded that the NorthMet mine project would create a substantial 
> risk of significant increases in water column and fish methylmercury 
> concentrations in the St. Louis River – a danger to the health of downstream 
> communities who eat mercury-contaminated fish.
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> WaterLegacy petitioned the MPCA to stay and re-open PolyMet’s water pollution 
> permit and wetland destruction certification and hold contested case 
> hearings. Congresswoman Betty McCollum is now leading efforts to ensure that 
> any EPA comments on the PolyMet water pollution permit are released to the 
> public. Time is running out to convince Gov. Walz and Lt. Gov. Flanagan to 
> re-open MPCA’s improper decisions, require a contested case hearing and make 
> sure that the public sees the full record of problems with PolyMet permits.
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> Ask Gov. Walz to Protect the St. Louis River: Stay and Reopen PolyMet’s 
> License to Pollute 
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> Together, we can protect the St. Louis River and Lake Superior watersheds.
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> Bill Hansen
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