PolyMet

by Steve Timmer, Aaron Klemz, Ken Avidor (Illustrator), Tony Petrangelo (Editor), Jen Tuder

Overview

PolyMet: Fourteen Years of Bullshit is the story of ineptitude, inattention, and outright corruption by Minnesota and federal regulators in consideration of permits for copper sulfide mining near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota for PolyMet Mining, a Canadian penny-stock company and its shadowy bad-boy backer, Glencore Plc. It is also the story of the failure of Minnesota's political leadership to intervene, or even to express much interest in what was going on, despite many signs that the regulators were poised to issue improvident permits, which they did. These permits are currently in litigation in Minnesota and federal courts.

The story is told through an anthology of website blog stories on LeftMN discussing events along the way.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163107223
Publisher:	LeftMN
Publication date:	12/01/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	968,555
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Steve Timmer is recently retired after practicing law for forty years as a commercial and corporate advisor and litigator. His practice included banking, guaranty and suretyship law, insurance, bankruptcy, administrative law, and torts.

Steve has been a canoeist and an avid fly fisherman for many years, with a love for fishing Lake Superior's North Shore streams.

The opinions expressed here are Steve's, but he thinks they should be yours, too.

Steve and his wife Lynn live in Edina.


Aaron Klemz is the Director of Public Engagement at the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy and Community Faculty teaching in the Masters of Advocacy and Political Leadership program at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota. His essays in this book are his views, and do not represent those of his employers past or present.

Aaron became interested in PolyMet's proposed sulfide mine in 2009 while a graduate student at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and eventually he left a tenured teaching job to work on PolyMet full-time in 2013. In communications and policy roles at the Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness and the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy he's dug deep into the environmental and economic dimensions of sulfide mining proposals in northeastern Minnesota.

As Vice-Chair of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Environmental Caucus from 2014-2016, he worked on the political dimensions of PolyMet and other resource extraction issues in Minnesota.

Aaron lives in Fridley, Minnesota.