Minnesota Rules give Minnesota residents the power to request environmental review if we come together with 100 petition signatures. Please sign the Petition for Environmental Review of Talon Exploratory Drilling letter below today and include your complete name and address to meet rule requirements.

Talon Metals/Kennecott/Rio Tinto Exploratory Drilling Background:

Talon and Kennecott Exploration, with multinational mining company Rio Tinto, have drilled more than 550 borings in Minnesota's Tamarack area to prospect for nickel and other sulfide ore metals.
These borings have been drilled deeper than 5,000 feet, and have encroached upon private drinking water wells, wild rice waters, Wildlife Management Areas, and MBS Sites of High Biological Diversity. Many borings have been made in open water, tamarack bogs, and wetlands.
Despite a quarter century of drilling, destruction, and pollution, there has been no environmental review, public participation, or mitigation to protect wetlands and waters in the Mississippi River and St. Croix River watersheds from Talon/Rio Tinto sulfide mine drilling. Now is our chance.

[Here is the letter that serves as the petition and must have an individual signature and address]

Subject: Petition for Environmental Review of Talon Exploratory Drilling

Dear Environmental Quality Board,

I am submitting my signature in support of the petition of WaterLegacy to the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board for environmental review of exploratory drilling proposed by Talon Nickel USA, LLC, a subsidiary of Talon Metals Corp. (collectively “Talon”), on March 13, 2025 related to the nickel-copper-platinum group sulfide ore mine proposed by Talon Metals and Rio Tinto in northern Minnesota's Tamarack region.

This petition is submitted pursuant to Minnesota Rules 4410.1100.

The exploratory drilling project is proposed by Talon Nickel USA, LLC, with offices at 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, DE 19801, and 165 Warren St., Tamarack, MN 55787

My full name and address below constitutes my electronic signature, submitted to the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board as part of this Petition for Environmental Review. By providing my full address, including zip code, I am certifying that I support the petition of WaterLegacy for environmental review of the 2025 Talon Exploratory Drilling Plan and the cumulative environmental effects of related past and ongoing exploratory drilling and that I live in or own property in Minnesota.

I acknowledge that I may be contacted by the State of Minnesota to verify that my electronic signature is valid and to ask my opinion of this petition process.

Fill out your info below and your electronic signature will be added. PLEASE NOTE: Minnesota law only counts petitions from people who live in or own property in Minnesota.