Last Sunday's Minneapolis Star Tribune had an article about the Polymet copper/nickel mine proposed near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. One of those cited was a mining engineer who inspected that BC spill. Based on BC, he estimated the financial assurance for cleanup of the proposed MN mine not be about $332 million Polymet offered, but $934 million. Polymet is also a small Canadian mining company with backing from a large European company.
Thank NAFTA for putting US mining companies with higher insurance requirements out of business in the US in favor of Canadian companies...
