ST. PAUL, Minn. – The giant PolyMet mining company has been duplicitous with regulators about its long-term intentions for copper and nickel mining on the Iron Range, according to environmentalist Chris Knopf of Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness. Knopf said PolyMet has been telling one thing to some regulators and other things to other regulators. “PolyMet has been speaking out of both sides of its mouth, trying to keep its plans for a bigger, dirtier mine hidden from the people of Minnesota,” Knopf said. His comments were in response to a series of court rulings that insisted the state Pollution Control Agency look harder at information offered by PolyMet when it sought a state clean-air permit for the project. The courts have put the permit back in the laps of the Governor Tim Walz and the his pollution regulators. “Now Governor Walz and his administration has an opportunity to look at all the facts and science behind this toxic and dangerous proposal.”
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Knopf. Executive director of Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness.