Jobs vs. Environment

" We'll fierce battle is shaping up over jobs versus the environments in Minnesota. There's -- acres of beautiful wilderness notice of the boundary waters area out there. This spot is also home to huge deposits of nickel and -- And mining companies are ready to move in and provide locals with some badly needed jobs. I picket crack at that. Ely Minnesota Steve. -- yeah -- he'd be okay tells -- to happen it."

" It's. -- what's happening is is that this is the summer season and this is the time of year -- people come up here. To enjoy the boundary waters -- lot of folks from downstate Minnesota up in this particular area. A lot of -- cottages matter backed up here because it is a beautiful place there's a lot of boating there's a lot of fishing there's a thousand lakes in the boundary waters area. Here is also significant deposits of nickel zinc copper in some precious metals. In and around this particular area and mining companies would like to get -- it in folks are. Folks are kind of leery about you know the environmental impact on this at the same time they very much want jobs -- don't have to tell you about the economy lately but up here. They're really desperate for jobs in there a lot of folks that say yeah if money can bring job what's happened is there is there a way of resolving it can both be done they -- for the minerals but they don't destroyed the lake and then the surrounding area. Depends on who you talk to got two examples of what they used to -- for this -- and I that's what they used to make some of the steel products out of that. Big mining operations up here this is the new stuff. This up a glimpse in the -- the -- the goal was kind of glance that's copper in order to be able to get it that they have to do what's called sulphide mining and the mining companies say with the assistance of universities like university of Minnesota they can do this in minimize the impact the problem is that pulling this up. Includes sulphur which when he hits air and water turns into sulfuric acid. And there are folks that are environmental group environmentalist groups that say. Nobody has ever mind for this stuff and not have a negative impact on the environment in terms of wildlife water quality all of this sort of stuff. And whatever is done near the boundary waters will ultimately end up in the boundary waters that's -- analysts say mining companies say. We'll set aside money to do this because this is so valuable will make so much money doing this there will be able to clean I'll be you'll never know where it is that we -- years later."

" And isn't Minnesota Land O'Lakes I think they have some 9000. And Tanzania says and I want it. If you -- an -- taxi drivers out -- they can tell you exactly to the number how many lakes there are. So maybe perhaps the people have to -- differently this summer or are longer Steve I gotta go thank you very much."