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Highland Copper — a Canadian company which already has a history of violating permits and degrading wetlands, whose Environmental Assessment was conducted over twelve years ago in a period of low rainfall — wants to store 50+ million tons of sulfur-bearing, heavy metal-laden mine waste at the juncture of rerouted streams forced into right angles, on topography sloping towards Lake Superior, with infrastructure designed to anticipate 100-year storm events even though the region has seen two thousand-year storms in the last decade...  

What could possibly go wrong?

This video shows the species with designated special status which have been observed at the mine site and adjacent lakeshore, as can be found in Copperwood's Feasibility Study, pgs 375-386 

Watch this presentation from our first Virtual Townhall.

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Folks, this is what it looks like when tailings dams burst. "Tailings" is industry jargon for mine waste— in the case of Copperwood, nearly 99% of all extracted material will be stored as heavy-metal laden, sulfide-bearing toxic waste, stored on site, forever, on topography sloping towards Lake Superior.

The Mount Polley Mine in British Columbia was designed and operated by Canadian experts at the tops of their field, following all environmental regulations— even so, the dam still burst, and when it did, it devastated an outdoor recreation economy much like our own.