…make your voice heard.
I received this as part of an email from Sustainable Ely:
Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness and Sustainable Ely hosted Bill Carter, author of Boom, Bust, Boom, in Ely last week. He spoke to over 120 people in a packed venue about the impacts sulfide ore mining will have on this area if it is allowed to proceed.
There was a great deal of worthwhile information in his presentation, but two points stood out.
• Towns with copper mining are not nice places to live or visit. He stated his belief that sulfide ore mining will change this area. The pollution, the industrial activity, the make up and culture of this community, and the current sustainable economy will be impacted, and not in a positive way.
• We need to make our story national. People from around the country (and world) come to recreate here, vacation here, and live here. We need everyone with a connection to this area or who wants to protect public lands to know about this possible sulfide ore mining. It is possible to stop this, but we need to spread the word and engage more people. NMW has taken the lead on this by forming a national coalition to stop mining in the Boundary Waters watershed. (More information will be coming out about this in the weeks to come.) The work has started, but there is much, much more to be done.
