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To elaborate on Mr. Peterson's last point--Bakk has it exactly backwards, of course. Who could conceivably have a greater claim on taconite money than people whose land and waters have been devastated by taconite mining and its predecessor? The Fond du Lac Band's response to the stupidity and meanness of Bakk, Lueck, Tomassoni and the rest is elegant. According to the Duluth News Tribune, this is what Rita Aspinwall of the Band had to say: “The Band is not anti-mining but we are anti-pollution. Mining, the way it currently operates and is regulated in Minnesota, has destroyed wild rice, worsened the mercury in fish problem, and fundamentally destroyed and degraded thousands of acres of important natural and cultural resources in the 1854 Ceded Territory over the past century. This is fact, backed up by data and science. The Band will protect what still remains, now and for future generations.” In other words, "Bakk, this is for you and the horse you rode in on." Bakk needs to take a powder.
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