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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenhorn" data-source="post: 351559" data-attributes="member: 7459">I am well aware of super fund sites. My company got started working the one in Niagara (Love Canal) in the 70s. Most of the super fund sites were results from industries dumping their chemicals into the soil back in the 30s, 40s, 50s before the EPA or any other environmental regulations existed. What makes you think this project will be a future superfund site? What are your specific concerns?I’m not familiar with the project, but do we know if there will be significant tailings? These are being brought in from MN, correct? Are these being mined from a sulfur-rich formation, like that in the Duluth Complex (Ely, MN area)? They are bringing ore, not straight up formation rock, correct? So it has already gone through some stage of refining?It sounds like catastrophizing to me, similar to those who protested DAPL. We have a big oil refinery right along the Missouri River and we are all still here (so are the big walleyes). Numerous coal mines, hazardous waste disposal wells, cow farts, and ND is still thriving economically and environmentally. While ignorant of this particular project, I just want to avoid the false dichotomy between economic gain and environmental catastrophe that many environmentalists make.</blockquote>