Trump and Walz Can Agree on One Thing: Mining in Minnesota …
He has been a frequent visitor to northern Minnesota, to go canoeing in the Boundary Waters and to stop in meeting halls and glad-hand with union leaders who said they considered the governor, who ...
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Save the Boundary Waters
U.S. Representative Stauber will reintroduce his legislation, formerly HR 3195, which would overturn the 20-year ban, reinstate federal mineral leases next to the Boundary Waters for copper mining company Twin Metals Minnesota, bar judicial review of these leases, and compel a speedy review of a Mine Plan.
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Protect the Boundary Waters from sulfide-ore copper mining.
Save the Boundary Waters is leading the fight to protect America's most-visited Wilderness permanently. ... Proposed sulfide-ore copper mining threatens these waters and forests. A copper mine in the Boundary Waters watershed will pollute the Wilderness for generations to come, causing irreversible harm to water quality, wildlife, public health ...
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The Twin Metals Debate: Exploring Mining Politics …
By Bubba Clyde Winchester, ChatGPT4o LLM, heavy industry AI persona for Resource Erectors. In the complex world of geopolitics and industry, where the stakes are as high as the aspirations, the controversial topic of …
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Boundary Waters group expresses mining fears …
Project 2025, the blueprint for a second Trump presidency put together by conservative think-tank The Heritage Foundation, advises repealing the 20-year protection on mining in the Boundary Waters.
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Stauber proposes 'Boundary Waters Restoration Act' that …
Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Duluth) on Wednesday re-introduced a bill that would erase mining protections for a large area of Superior National Forest near the Boundary Waters …
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Rep. Stauber re-introduces legislation that would reopen …
Photo: US Congress. By Laura Durenberger-Grunow - Boreal Community Media - February 6, 2025. On Wednesday, Representative Pete Stauber announced that he re-introduced legislation titled Superior National Forest Restoration Act, which would reopen approximately 225,500 acres of land near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to copper nickel …
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Mining could return to the Boundary Waters under new …
Mining Minnesota says the project would create 750 jobs, plus 1400 jobs in related industries, and have an economic impact of $2 billion. ... Knopf says Friends of the Boundary Waters' legal ...
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DFL lawmakers introduce bill to crack down on …
Last summer, the Department of Natural Resources asked the Legislature whether certain high-impact mining practices in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) watershed were compatible with preserving and …
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Mark Dayton: Protect the Boundary Waters
In fact, Project 2025, the "battle plan" for the first 180 days of his presidency, mentions Minnesota only two times and both are about explicitly opening up the Boundary Waters watershed to copper mining. Imagine Minnesota's most treasured Wilderness poisoned by toxic runoff—a future we cannot afford to risk. If we lose the Boundary Waters ...
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Boundary Waters
Boundary Waters #3 THREAT: Sulfide-ore copper mining PHOTO: SAVE THE BOUNDARY WATERS THE RIVER Much of Minnesota's northeastern "Arrowhead" region, including the Boundary Waters, is within the 1854 Ceded Territory, where Anishinaabe people (including the Ojibwe or Chippewa) retain hunting, fishing and gathering rights.
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Bill seeks to protect Boundary Waters by restricting copper mining
This type of mining has never not polluted the waterways surrounding a mine, she said, making the proposed projects near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness particularly worrisome.
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Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution …
The Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act permanently protects 234,328 acres of federal lands and waters within the Superior National Forest from risky sulfide-ore copper mining. The bill is supported by local, regional, and national advocacy groups in favor of permanently protecting these critical resources.
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Biden administration imposes 20-year mining ban on …
Conservation groups have long argued that mining for copper, nickel and other metals could spoil the natural beauty and health of the Boundary Waters, more than 1 million acres of the country's ...
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Trump, GOP wins boost mining prospects near Boundary Waters
Lucas, the Mining Minnesota official, said she understood the concerns of those who are fiercely opposed to mining for critical minerals in Minnesota because of fears of pollution of the Boundary ...
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Minnesota DNR gives Twin Metals green light for …
WASHINGTON – While a federal moratorium and other obstacles had extinguished nearly all possibility for a new era of hard rock mining near the Boundary Waters, the Minnesota Department of ...
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US plan would block Minnesota copper-nickel mine
The U.S. Forest Service on Wednesday proposed a 20-year ban on mining in Minnesota's Boundary Waters region, a step that would block Antofagasta Plc's Twin Metals copper and nickel mine project.
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Future of mining near boundary waters, Superior National …
Advocates say restoring mining in the boundary waters area would create around 700 jobs and wouldn't pollute the boundary waters. ... we are expected to see dueling …
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A pristine American backcountry faces down an …
This January, Minnesota Rep. Betty McCollum introduced H.R. 5598, which aims to permanently protect 234,328 acres within the Boundary Waters watershed from copper mining.
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Stauber unveils mining bill once again
Pete Stauber reintroduces bill that would open copper nickel mining near Boundary Waters . ... A canoe on the shore of the Boundary Waters in northern Minnesota. (Mitchel Boeck/Dreamstime/TNS) ORG ...
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Stauber reintroduces restoring mineral leases in Superior …
"Rep. Stauber's bill is a giveaway of America's most popular Wilderness Area — the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness — to a foreign mining company," said Ingrid Lyons, the executive director of Save the Boundary Waters, in a news release. Chile-based mining company Antofagasta has been part of the last decade's mineral lease ...
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U.S. Enacts 20-Year Mining Ban in Minnesota's Boundary Waters
Washington, D.C. — Earthjustice and a coalition of conservation groups across the country celebrated today's announcement that President Joe Biden's administration has withdrawn 225,378 acres of lands in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness watershed from mineral leasing for 20 years, protecting the country's most visited wilderness area from …
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We just made our case for the Boundary Waters in court
Copper-sulfide mining and the Boundary Waters watershed don't mix, but the rules do not prohibit this type of mining upstream of the Nation's only canoe-country wilderness. Second, the Minnesota DNR puts its faith in its own environmental review and permitting processes, arguing that the law prohibits it from permitting any mine predicted ...
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Federal judge deals another serious blow to proposed …
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has dealt another serious setback to the proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota, dismissing the company's lawsuit that sought to regain the critical mineral rights leases that the Biden administration cancelled. The ruling Wednesday was the …
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Boundary Waters protection bill reintroduced as advocates, …
The mining company in this case is Twin Metals Minnesota, owned by Chilean mining company Antofagasta. Since 2022, Antofagasta has spent over $2 million lobbying for …
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Understanding 20-Year Federal Protections and What's Next
The January 26, 2023 decision by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to ban sulfide-ore copper mining on 225,504 acres of Superior National Forest land upstream of the Boundary Waters is a historic win for Boundary Waters protection. You were a big part of this win, speaking up for this quiet place time and time again. Thank you. However, the Boundary Waters is a forever …
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Biden administration cancels Twin Metals' leases to mine …
In a separate effort, the Biden administration has also proposed a 20-year moratorium on new copper-nickel mining proposals within the watershed of the Boundary Waters, in the same area Twin ...
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US moves to protect Minnesota wilderness from planned mine
1 of 2 | . FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2011, file photo, a core sample drilled from underground rock near Ely, Minn., shows a band of shiny minerals containing copper, nickel and precious metals, center, that Twin Metals Minnesota LLC, hopes to mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota.
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Federal review says copper-nickel mining poses an
The mineral withdrawal would not affect PolyMet Mining, the other copper-nickel project proposed so far in northern Minnesota, because it is located outside the watershed of the Boundary Waters.
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Stauber reintroduces restoring mineral leases in Superior …
"Rep. Stauber's bill is a giveaway of America's most popular Wilderness Area — the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness — to a foreign mining company," said Ingrid …
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