Duluth, MN (Northland's NewsCenter) --- PolyMet's Environmental Impact Statement is delaying the company as it works to become the first working copper mine in Minnesota.
PolyMet officials announced last December they expected to release a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement draft to the public in the second quarter, or spring, of 2012.
Now officials expect the environmental statement will not be ready for review by state and federal agencies by this summer as planned.
That will push public comment and review back to the fall.
PolyMet officials said they need more time to work with lead agencies on developing their environmental modeling.
The modeling process is now expected to be complete in the spring of 2012.
PolyMet plans to mine copper, nickel, palladium, platinum, and gold from the former LTV taconite mine site in Hoyt Lakes.
The company's first environmental statement was criticized by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2009.
Posted to the web by Alyssa Kroeten
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