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http://www.startribune.com/federal-judge-hands-twin-metals-major-win-in-fight-over-mining-near-boundary-waters/568879372/
>A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has dealt a significant blow to environmental groups fighting to protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from copper-nickel mining in Minnesota.
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>The Obama administration had previously denied the company’s request to renew its two leases to mine on 5,000 acres of public land in Superior National Forest after the U.S. Forest Service concluded that copper mining so close to the Boundary Waters was too risky, and it could cause “serious and irreparable harm” to an “irreplaceable wilderness area.”
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>The company plans to extract 20,000 tons of ore per day from the huge underground copper-nickel mine it wants to build just outside the Boundary Waters near Birch Lake. It submitted its official plan to state and federal regulators in December. The Twin Metals project is one of two fiercely debated copper-nickel mines proposed for northeast Minnesota.
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>Environmental groups vowed to appeal.
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>Tom Landwehr, executive director of the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters, also expressed dismay.
>“Today is a slap in the face to science, the rule of law, the Boundary Waters Wilderness, and the American people,” Landwehr said in a statement. “This decision failed to recognize the clear, plain language of the leases and twisted itself into knots to justify the predetermined policy decision of the Trump Administration to sell out America’s most popular Wilderness to a Chilean billionaire who also happens to be the landlord of Ivanka Trump.”
>Ivanka Trump and her husband, White House adviser Jared Kushner, rent an expensive Washington, D.C., home that was bought by a U.S. real estate company owned by Andrónico Luksic, chairman of the family company that owns Antofagasta.
https://www.savetheboundarywaters.org/the-threat
>A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has dealt a significant blow to environmental groups fighting to protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from copper-nickel mining in Minnesota.
...
>The Obama administration had previously denied the company’s request to renew its two leases to mine on 5,000 acres of public land in Superior National Forest after the U.S. Forest Service concluded that copper mining so close to the Boundary Waters was too risky, and it could cause “serious and irreparable harm” to an “irreplaceable wilderness area.”
...
>The company plans to extract 20,000 tons of ore per day from the huge underground copper-nickel mine it wants to build just outside the Boundary Waters near Birch Lake. It submitted its official plan to state and federal regulators in December. The Twin Metals project is one of two fiercely debated copper-nickel mines proposed for northeast Minnesota.
...
>Environmental groups vowed to appeal.
...
>Tom Landwehr, executive director of the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters, also expressed dismay.
>“Today is a slap in the face to science, the rule of law, the Boundary Waters Wilderness, and the American people,” Landwehr said in a statement. “This decision failed to recognize the clear, plain language of the leases and twisted itself into knots to justify the predetermined policy decision of the Trump Administration to sell out America’s most popular Wilderness to a Chilean billionaire who also happens to be the landlord of Ivanka Trump.”
>Ivanka Trump and her husband, White House adviser Jared Kushner, rent an expensive Washington, D.C., home that was bought by a U.S. real estate company owned by Andrónico Luksic, chairman of the family company that owns Antofagasta.
https://www.savetheboundarywaters.org/the-threat
