The GOP's Hopes of Turning Minnesota Into a Political Red State is Not a Good Idea

[TexasTowelie]

Minnesota’s Republican Party is hoping that good-hearted, environmentally-conscious Minnesotans who appreciate clean drinking and fishing water will subvert their ideals, ignore their better angels and vote for the Republican Party’s “red state” agenda next fall.

Supporters of America’s current “Polluter-in-Chief” Donald J. Trump, whose environmentally-destructive policies could literally turn the waters of northeastern Minnesota’s Partridge, Embarrass and upper St Louis Rivers into red, highly acidic, sulfuric acid-contaminated water that cannot support activities of normal life, (including fishing, boating, swimming or the growing of wild rice).

The Hector Mine Earthen Dam Rupture

Note that the break in the abandoned Hector mine pit near Biwabik on April 24, 2018 discharged massive amounts of toxic red-stained water into the Embarrass River, which then emptied into the Embarrass Lake, with uncertain, but probably devastating long-term consequences.

Interestingly, the only area journalist that reported on the catastrophe – with photos - was the Duluth Reader’s Richard Thomas. Read the article here. The copper-mining-supporting Duluth News-Tribune chose to not report on the tailings pond break.

Read more: http://duluthreader.com/articles/2018/06/14/13660_the_gops_hopes_of_turning_minnesota_into_a


Runoff from the Hector Mine discolors the Embarrass River and Lake.
(Photo by Roy Glanville)

[Liberty Belle]

1. Corruption in media is as bad as corruption in government.

Shocking that this was ignored.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Ugh, lots of fear-mongering in that article.

Note that the break in the abandoned Hector mine pit near Biwabik on April 24, 2018 discharged massive amounts of toxic red-stained water into the Embarrass River, which then emptied into the Embarrass Lake, with uncertain, but probably devastating long-term consequences.

Except it wasn't toxic, and it wasn't a massive amount. And the DNT has in fact written about the break. That's the kind of journalism you get when you don't pay your writers, I guess.