St. Paul, MN - Today, Governor Walz announced an Executive Order to protect Minnesota’s cherished Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness from toxic sulfide ore mining.
State Representative Alex Falconer, who authored legislation the past biennium to protect the BWCAW, released the following statement applauding this measure:
“Between the Trump administration promoting toxic mining and this summer’s damaging forest fires, it’s been a rough year for the Boundary Waters. But today is a good day. I want to thank Governor Walz for his leadership and his dedication to the crown jewel of Minnesota’s public lands. This Executive Order reflects that the vast majority of Minnesotans will not stand by while Trump sells out our Boundary Waters to a Chilean billionaire.
“I hope the momentum of today’s actions by Governor Walz will carry into the next legislature and we can pass my bill to permanently protect the Boundary Waters from sulfide-ore copper mining.
“The Boundary Waters is not for sale!”
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