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Duluth News Tribune
November 28, 2009

I wonder how many people arguing against the PolyMet mine actually have read the draft environmental impact statement ("Another step forward for state's first copper mine," Oct. 29). It serves no purpose to argue against something if you haven't availed yourself of measured facts. While opinions are useful as guidelines and the positions pro and con allow guidelines for the debate's content, it serves no useful purpose to parrot someone else's opinions.

The draft environmental impact statement specifically engages questions of runoff into the Partridge and Embarrass rivers. The community needs jobs. The nation needs the metal, and the money spent on it will enter your community instead of some South American dictator's pockets.

The state is tasked with and has the ability to monitor the operation of the mine. This is a big opportunity to show how well reclamation works.

Churchill Hornstein

Wilmington, N.C.