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Ron Hein holds a copy of “Taconite, New Life for Minnesota's Iron Range: The History of Erie Mining Company.” Hein is one of the main authors and organizers of the book and related school curriculum project. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
Energy and Mining

Mining history project shares oral histories with 7 libraries, cultural centers in Duluth, Iron Range

Keith Peterson of Britt, Minnesota is a member of the Iron Range Solar Co-op. He installed these solar panels on his garage about three years ago. “It took all of the hard work off my shoulders,” he said of the co-op. (Submitted by Keith Peterson)
Energy and Mining

Solar co-op heads for Northland

Activists opposed to Line 3, who call themselves Water Protectors, block an entrance to a worksite where the pipeline crosses Reponen Road near Sawyer last Friday afternoon. The pipeline crosses tribal lands belonging to the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
Energy and Mining

As crews build Line 3 through Fond du Lac Reservation, a protest camp takes shape

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack speaks to the delegates on the second night of the 2012 Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Harry E. Walker / TNS)
Energy and Mining

Key cabinet nominees have opposed mining near Boundary Waters, but Biden’s been silent

U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber, R-Hermantown, speaks at the University of Wisconsin-Superior’s Lake Superior Research Institute in September. (2020 file / News Tribune)
Energy and Mining

Stauber bill would prevent president from barring mining on federal land

The Arrowhead Regional Special Operations Urban Search and Rescue team was called to respond to a potential trench rescue emergency in Carlton County at this trench on the Line 3 pipeline project near the intersection of Hohensee Road and West Moorhead Road in Carlton County on Friday evening. A pipeline protestor climbed into the trench and exited the perilous area on his own after rescue personnel explained the hazards he was facing. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
Energy and Mining

Line 3 protester rescued from collapsing trench

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An aerial view looking southeast at Cleveland-Cliffs’ Milepost 7 tailings basin. The basin holds 40 years' worth of tailings behind dams and on top of a 2,100-acre footprint. An expansion project planned by Cliffs, would expand that footprint by 850 acres — a 40% increase in the basin’s surface area. The darker areas visible in the basin are shadows of cumulus clouds. (Clint Austin / 2020 file / caustin@duluthnews.com)
Energy and Mining

Does Northshore Mining's tailings basin expansion require environmental review?

Two people chained themselves together Thursday, Jan. 14, inside a pipeline to protest Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline replacement project near Backus. Submitted Photo
Energy and Mining

Protesters chain themselves together to protest Enbridge's Line 3

Iron ore pellets (Getty Images)
Energy and Mining

Grand Rapids-based Tacora Resources buys Norwegian iron ore mine

The Minnesota Capitol building pictured in 2014. (File / Forum News Service)
Energy and Mining

Bills take aim at copper-nickel mining in Minnesota

The Boswell Energy Center in Cohasset. (File / News Tribune)
Energy and Mining

Minnesota Power lays out renewable energy plan: No coal by 2035, no carbon by 2050

Gio Cerise, left, of the White Earth Nation comforts Dawn Goodwin as they watch workers resume construction on the Line 3 pipeline in Aitkin County, Minn., on Saturday, Jan. 9. (Ben Hovland for MPR News)
Energy and Mining

Protesters gather at Line 3 construction site in Aitkin County

A "Stop the Mine" sign hangs on a tree that borders the land next to the proposed mine site in the upper peninsula of Michigan along the Menomonee River. (Tom Lynn / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / MCT)
Energy and Mining

Judge rejects controversial Upper Peninsula mine's wetlands permit

A tanker truck passes by an Enbridge storage tank. Forum News Service file photo
Energy and Mining

Tribes ask Court of Appeals to pause Line 3 permits

About 20 people gathered for a small protest in early December against the Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project outside Bagley, Minn., where the pipeline route crosses the Clearwater River earlier this month. Dan Kraker / MPR News
Energy and Mining

Line 3 opponents file federal suit to try to block the pipeline

Protesters, including one hanging from the top of a wooden tripod, protested Enbridge Energy's Line 3 pipeline by blocking access to the pipe storage yard outside of Backus. Travis Grimler / Echo Journal
Energy and Mining

Protester on wooden tripod blocks Line 3 pipe yard in Backus

One of the four boiler systems at the Duluth Energy Systems steam plant in the Canal Park neighborhood of Duluth. This boiler has been converted to use natural gas as a fuel. Two of the boilers at the plant can run on either natural gas or coal. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
Energy and Mining

Duluth steam customers convert to hot-water heat

Winona La Duke, second from left, and a group of Indigenous and allies protest the construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline Tuesday, Dec. 15 at the Enbridge office in Park Rapids. (Robin Fish/Enterprise)
Energy and Mining

LaDuke, Line 3 opponents stage first of 'weekly' protests at Enbridge office in Park Rapids

Energy and Mining

Contractor hired to work on Line 3 dies in Hill City construction yard

Forum News Service file photo
Energy and Mining

Increasing number of Northland residents fall behind on utility bills

Workers guide a 82-foot-tall, 6,000-pound wind turbine blade onto its base next to the Allete-Minnesota Power building Wednesday. The blade was a prototype for an Allete Clean Energy project that refurbished 384 turbines at three wind projects in Iowa and Minnesota. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
Energy and Mining

Photos: Allete installs wind turbine blade in Duluth