Pax-salon Mailing List: Fwd: Fwd: Use Your Voice Now to Protect Minnesota from PolyMet Pollution

[patty guerrero (pattypax]

Please do not reply to salon above.  my email is pattypan [at] icloud.com


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> From: patty guerrero via Pax-salon <pax-salon [at] justcomm.org>
> Subject: [Pax-salon] Fwd: Use Your Voice Now to Protect Minnesota from 
> PolyMet Pollution
> Date: January 17, 2019 at 4:32:54 PM CST
> To: Patty Guerrero <pattypax [at] icloud.com>
> Cc: Pax Salon Announcements <pax-salon [at] justcomm.org>
> Reply-To: patty guerrero <pattypax [at] icloud.com>
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> 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] 
>> icloud.com>
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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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>> From: WaterLegacy <info [at] waterlegacy.org <mailto:info [at] 
>> waterlegacy.org>>
>> Date: Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 11:01 AM
>> Subject: Use Your Voice Now to Protect Minnesota from PolyMet Pollution
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>> Dear Gayle,  
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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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>> Thank you,
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>> Bill Hansen
>> WaterLegacy Interim Board President
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>>  and learn about our Campaigns to stop the PolyMet sulfide mine and defend 
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