Polymet

PolyMet: Fourteen Years of B******t is the story of ineptitude, inattention, and outright corruption by Minnesota and federal regulators in consideration of permits for copper sulfide mining near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota for PolyMet Mining, a Canadian penny-stock company and its shadowy bad-boy backer, Glencore Plc. It is also the story of the failure of Minnesota’s political leadership to intervene, or even to express much interest in what was going on, despite many signs that the regulators were poised to issue improvident permits, which they did. These permits are currently in litigation in Minnesota and federal courts.

The story is told through an anthology of website blog stories on LeftMN discussing events along the way.