While the political playing field has become more favorable for mining, the Republican’s proposals still face hurdles.
“The Trump administration’s scheme to turn this breathtaking region into an industrial mining wasteland can’t be allowed,” said Marc Fink, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity.
One of President Trump's Executive Orders is called Unleashing American Energy, and has sections about mining and minerals.
President-elect Donald Trump’s promised policies could have a major impact on Twin Metals’ mining project and Minnesota’s clean energy goals. The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is at ...
“In 2016 the U.S. Forest Service found that sulfide-ore copper mining in the headwaters of the Boundary Waters posed an unacceptable risk to the integrity of the wilderness,” said Tom Landwehr, ...
In the late 70’s, Knopf’s group worked tirelessly with President Carter to pass the Boundary Waters Wilderness Act to prevent logging and mining. Despite heavy opposition, Carter signed it ...
leaving the Boundary Waters vulnerable to logging, mining and other incompatible uses, such as motorboats and snowmobiles. In 1978, the Carter-Mondale administration supported citizens who were ...
"It prevents the logging; it prevents snowmobiles; it prevents mining in the wilderness area. So before that, all those sort of activities could have happened within the Boundary Waters area.