Are Sen. Franken and Sen Klobuchar allowing fracking in Northern MN's boundry waters?

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H.R. 5544 passed the US House last week and has been referred to Senate committee.

Please call your Senators now.

Public Risk For Private Gain

Oppose the BWCAW/ Superior National Forest Land Exch ange

H.R. 5544 - a Bill that will fast track a huge Federal land exchange and is a strip mining give away to big mining, passed the House last week.

This is about facilitating large scale open pit sulfide mining on National Forest lands in Minnesota - mainly for the benefit of multinational mining corporations including PolyMet and Glencore, Teck Cominco, Twin Metals, etc.

We are trying to stop Senators Franken and Klobuchar from introducing a companion bill to Rep Cravaack's H.R. 5544.

The dismantling of the Superior National Forest is being legislated without public input or participation.

Minnesota's National Forests need your help!

We are asking that people in Michigan contact Senator Stabenow Here MI Phone: [phone], DC office at [phone]

Those in Wisconsin should contact Senator Kohl Here DC office at [phone] Madison office [phone]

In Minnesota contact Senator Franken: [phone] (D.C. office) or [phone] (St. Paul office)

Senator Klobuchar202) 224-3244 (D.C. office) or [phone] (Minneapolis office)

Ask them to oppose ANY land exchange legislation.

The Land Exchange is bad for the Boundary Waters, the Superior National Forest - and the entire Arrowhead Region and Lake Superior watershed where these mines would be sited. A land exchange would remove most Federal laws currently in place to protect Minnesota's Arrowhead from multinational mining companies hoping to mine throughout our region.

Related Facebook pages: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Precious-Waters-Minnesotas-Sulfide-Mining-Controversy/177391148650?ref=ts
and
http://www.facebook.com/preciouswaters.flotilla for the month-long canoe flotilla starting Sept. 22nd (can join in anytime)
http://www.ironcountryfreepress.com/?p=246

* they companies mine South Eastern MN and WI for the sand used in Fracking.. they mine on bluffs along the Mississippi...


RELATED: A demonstration on Oct. 1 at the Earle Brown Center in Brooklyn Park re Fracking
On Monday, October 1, 2012 activists from Southeastern Minnesota have organized a rally and demonstration against frac sand mining to be held in direct response to the Conference on the Silica Sand Resources of Minnesota and Wisconsin. The conference is sponsored by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration and features a keynote address from a retired ConocoPhillips executive. The protest will give voice to the many concerns that have been raised amidst the frac sand boom of the past 12 months and will proclaim "There is no right way to do something so wrong!"

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1. "Minnesota Education Investment and Employment Act"

Such a noble name...so deceptive.
Republicans 223 for and 2 against.
Democrats 8 for and 181 against.

H.R.5544:
To authorize and expedite a land exchange involving National Forest System land in the Laurentian District of the Superior National Forest and certain other National Forest System land in the State of Minnesota that has limited recreational and conservation resources and lands owned by the State of Minnesota in trust for the public school system that are largely scattered in checkerboard fashion within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and have important recreational, scenic, and conservation resources, and for other purposes.