Minnesota mines

“Fox News reported that on Thursday, the  Department of the Interior (DOI) ‘announced that it would complete a 20-year withdrawal of 225,504 acres in a northern Minnesota forest area that is home to some of the largest domestic critical mineral reserves.’

“Environmentalists’ concerns with any future mining activity, so they said, was that it would ‘contaminate’ the surrounding habitat and watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Duluth, Minnesota.”
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“Fox News noted: ‘However, Twin Metals’ mining project contained about 88% of the nation's cobalt reserves in addition to vast copper, nickel, and platinum-group elements. Such critical minerals are vital for various green energy technologies like electric vehicle batteries, battery storage facilities, solar panels, and wind turbines, which the Biden administration has aggressively pushed.”

https://americandigest.com/biden-admin-bans-mining-in-resource-rich-area-for-next-20-years/?

Canoes: we all drive one to work or school.