Carpetbagger Chip Cravaack is giving away Northern Minnesota Wilderness to foreign mining interests.

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15. Well, it has to be taken to a national level, because of the nature of the swap.

Lobbying Klobuchar and Franken to ensure that proper environmental oversight is added to the proposal can help a lot.

I live on the North Shore and mining directly supports my family. I believe there are ways to regulate and set up consequences for companies that want to mine up here, and that we should not call for a moratorium on it. I was a delegate at the DFL state convention, where we voted down a resolution for a moratorium on copper-nickel mining. There is something special about Northern Minnesota, and I think we can protect it and reap the natural resources in a balanced way. It can be argued that that hasn't been done elsewhere, but I don't believe that's a reason to not try here.