The results are in: Allowing toxic mining to move forward next to the Boundary Waters wilderness in Minnesota would be an environmental and public-health disaster, per a long-delayed new analysis from the U.S. Forest Service.
The Forest Service’s report says sulfide-ore mining simply cannot be done safely in the area, just as Indigenous leaders and scientists have always warned. Among the hazards to the watershed and surrounding areas is acid mine drainage pollution that would cause “disproportionate adverse risk to Native American and low-income communities.”
These threats are unacceptable. For the sake of local communities, ancestral and present-day Ojibwe land, wildlife habitat and cherished canoeing areas alike, we must tell the Biden administration to protect the Boundary Waters from toxic mining as soon as possible.
Thank you,
