Minneapolis (AP)-The Management of President Donald Trump moves to escalate the restrictions on the copper-nickel mining, which the bidet management is near the Bidwater Cannon in the northeast of Minnesota.
The proposed twin Metals Minnesota Mine near Ely was a lifeline, which was announced on Wednesday by Agriculture Minister Brooke Rollins and the Interior Minister Doug Burgum.
Democratic administrations have tried to kill the project because they described the risk of degrees of acid in limit waters, the most visited federal territory in the country.
Twin Metals belongs to the Chilean mining giant -antofagasta. President Barack Obama’s government rejected it to renew the company’s mineral law rental contracts in 2016. The first Trump government restored these rental contracts in 2019.
The management of President Joe Biden again canceled the rental contracts in 2022 and imposed a 20-year moratorium for mining, which is known as a “mineral withdrawal” in a 350 square miles (900 square kilometer knives) of the upper national forest from the wilderness, which contains the proposed underground mine.
Trump awarded copper as the focus of his domestic mineral policy and quickly turned the moratorium around the moratorium during a campaign stop in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
The limit waters are managed by the US forestry service, which is part of the agricultural department and places it under Rollins’ area of ​​responsibility, and the lease is checked by Burgum’s interior department.
“After careful review, including extensive public inputs, the US forest service has enough information to know that the withdrawal was never needed,” wrote Rollins on X.
Kathy Graul, spokeswoman for Twin Metals, praised the Trump government for the beginning of the process of reversing the decision of the Biden administration, which said that it was “on a deeply incorrect evaluation” that was not considered in order to consider the environmental protection authorities built into his project design.
The company argues that its mining design will prevent acidic discharges and the best way to determine whether it is certain is that they are undergoing a formal environmental check process that the state canceled in 2022.
“The change in the mineral deprivation will enable Minnesota the opportunity to become a worldwide leading provider in the urgently needed domestic production of minerals under some of the strictest environmental and work standards in the world,” said Graul in a statement.
However, critics contested their claim about public contributions and pointed out that the Trump government did not carry out any formal public commentary procedure for the reversal of politics.
“The announcement of secretary castle and rollins is shocking,” said Ingrid Lyons, managing director of Save the Boundary Waters. “They claim that they have advised the people in Minnesota about the border waters if they clearly didn’t do it.”
The Democratic US Senator Tina Smith from Minnesota mocked the secretary’s claim of a “careful review” and said about X that the government “uses pseudo -scientifics to justify poor actions” and predict that the decision is being contested in court.
“Not this mine. Not this place. The border water is too precious,” said Smith.
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“Since the demand for critical minerals continues to jump, I look forward to the fact that the qualified miners in Minnesota will certainly deliver our huge mineral prosperity to the nation by using the best work and environmental standards in the world,” said Stauber in a statement.
Twin Metals are separated from two other planned copper-nickel mines in Minnesota, the Newrange project, which was previously known as a polymet near Hoyt Lakes, which was left behind by regulatory and court back and Talon Metals near McGregor near McGregor.
