The Latest American Natural Wonder On The Trump Hit List
Trump administration action that could spoil a Minnesota wilderness with acid damage for centuries would benefit the landlord of presidents son-in-law.
Former President Jimmy Carter signed a law more than four decades ago to prohibit mining in the Boundary Waters, a pristine wilderness. With more than 1,000 lakes, it stretches almost 200 miles along the Canadian border in Minnesota.
Now the Trump administration is preparing to sully this land foreverto the benefit of the billionaire Chilean landlord of the Jared Kushner and family.
Trumps Bureau of Land Management plans to study the environmental impact of mining for copper, nickel, cobalt and precious metals near Ely, Minn. The site is just three miles away from the Boundary Waters, which are within the 3 million-acre Superior National Forest. State regulators said the plans of Twin Metals, the mining company, are incomplete and have published almost 800 comments asking for more information.
Under former President Barack Obama, the Forest Service said a copper-nickel sulfide mine on land leased by Twin Metals carried an unacceptable risk that the mine might cause serious and irreplaceable harm to the Boundary Waters. The Bureau of Land Management decided against renewing two leases held by Twin Metals.
https://www.dcreport.org/2020/08/04/the-latest-american-natural-wonder-on-the-trump-hit-list/