Giant Underground Copper Mine Proposed Near MN Boundary Waters
80,000 tons a day is a lot of excavation.
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"A little fill here and there may seem to be nothing to become excited about. But one fill, though comparatively inconsequential, may lead to another, and another, and before long a great body may be eaten away until it may no longer exist. Our navigable waters are a precious natural heritage, once gone, they disappear forever," wrote the Wisconsin Supreme Court in its 1960 opinion resolving Hixon v. PSC and buttressing The Public Trust Doctrine, Article IX of the Wisconsin State Constitution.
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Fast forward five years to this headline:
Waters of Boundary Waters Disappear into Maw of Ginormous Copper Mine
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