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June 2024: Carbon Capture in Minnesota: What You Need to Know

May 2024: Indigenous Resistance to Mining in the Upper Midwest and Beyond by Al Gedicks is executive secretary of the Wisconsin Resources Protection Council and emeritus professor of environmental sociology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

April 2024: Miners Take A Look At Mining by Bob Tammen, Steelworker/IBEW (Retired)

March 2024: An Ojibwe Man's Perspective on Extractivism by Nagaajiwanaang gichi-ayaa'aa/FDL Elder Ricky DeFoe

February 2024: Mapping MEPA: How to Engage in Minnesota's Environmental Review Process by Joy Anderson, Supervising Attorney, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA)

January 2024: Minnesota's Shallow Lakes & Wild Rice - A Deep Heritage (Excerpted from Shallow Lakes-Minnesota’s Natural Heritage brochure by Nicole Hansel-Welch, MN DNR and Scott Kudelka, Water Resource Center, MSUM)

December 2023: Protecting Our Lakes & Rivers by Jeff Forester, Executive Director of Minnesota Lakes & Rivers

November 2023: Ignorance is NOT Bliss: Why Scientific Study of the District-Scale Mining of the Tamarack Intrusive Complex is Needed by Paula Maccabee and Bruce Johnson

October 2023: Carbon Capture Near Tamarack MN

September 2023: Human Health Effects of Sulfide Mining

August 2023: Peat and RePeat: Why Protecting & Restoring Minnesota’s Peatlands Matters for Climate, Water, & People by Kristen Blann, MS, PhD

July 2023: The Value of Fishing and Fishing Habitat

June 2023: Talon Continues to Push Toward An Environmental Disaster

May 2023: Perspectives on Minnesota Mining with Aaron Brown

April 2023: Call To Action: Foreign Sulfide Mining in Minnesota by Arne Carlson, former Republican governor of Minnesota

March 2023: Prove It First!

February 2023: Nickel Not Needed for Future EV's - by Lynn Anderson

January 2023: Water is Life - Talon Metals and the Tamarack North Project - by Tom Anderson

December 2022: What's New With Talon Metals and the Tamarack North Project - by Tom Anderson

November 2022: Thanksgiving - The Price Paid By Native People - by Waabishki Giiwedin Ikwe (White Wind Woman) Tracey L. Wilke, Citizen of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa North Dakota, Descendant of Chippewa/Ojibwa/Anishinaabe Minnesota

October 2022: Hydrology and the Potential Impacts of Mining - John L. Nieber, P.H., P.E., PhD

September 2022: Extractive Industries Cannot Compete with Tourism and Recreation as an Economic Driver

August 2022: Reflections from a Recent Visit to the Eagle Mine

July 2022: Mining Contributes Less Than 1% To Minnesota's Economy

June 2022: Responsible Mining

May 2022: Do Minnesota’s Regulatory Agencies Really Protect The Environment?

April 2022: Community Consent / Social License

March 2022: Is Talon Metals Green or "Just Kidding?

February 2022: Nickel-Sulfide Mining Pollution and Nickel-free Electric Vehicle Batteries

January 2022: What We Know About the Proposed Talon Metals Mine

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Articles Published in Minnesota News Outlets

December 18, 2023 - MINNPOST

There’s no reason to claim that nickel is needed in the transition to a green economy
https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2023/12/theres-no-reason-to-claim-that-nickel-is-needed-in-the-transition-to-a-green-economy/