![]() ![]() The Talon Metals project near Tamarack is at the very early stages of its environmental review. The NewRange mine near Babbitt and Hoyt Lakes, formerly known as PolyMet, has been stalled by court and regulatory setbacks for several years. The Twin Metals project is separate from two other proposed copper and nickel mines in northeastern Minnesota. “We as a country cannot continue to shut out an industry in one breath and then expect to have the ability to make this critical clean energy transition in another.” “You cannot combat the climate crisis through green energy technologies like electric vehicles, solar panels or windmills without the minerals that are located in northeast Minnesota,” the Jobs for Minnesotans business-labor coalition said in a statement. The department said it was investing $150 million to promote domestic production of critical minerals, including copper, nickel and other metals that Twin Metals wants to mine, that are needed for the transition to cleaner energy. Groups that back Twin Metals said in statements Thursday that the court decision and the Biden administration’s actions against Twin Metals conflict with a Department of Energy announcement on Wednesday. Wed, 08:00:00 GMT Protecting the Boundary Waters: next steps Minnesota Reformer. Thu, 07:00:00 GMT 18-year-old man missing after canoe capsizes in Boundary Waters Duluth News Tribune. “We are one step closer to permanent protection for the Boundary Waters watershed,” Ingrid Lyons, executive director of the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters, said in a statement. Sat, 07:00:00 GMT New BWCA report calls for more public engagement Quetico Superior Foundation. Peter Marshall, a spokesman for Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, suggested that Twin Metals, instead of pursuing the project further, should turn to the Court of Federal Claims to seek compensation for the more than $550 million it has invested. Twin Metals sued the federal government last summer to try to undo its decisions. The state of Minnesota then ended its environmental review of the project. dependence on imported metals.īut the Biden administration took up where the Obama administration left off, canceling the leases last year and and imposing a 20-year moratorium on mining in an area of the Superior National Forest upstream from the wilderness that includes the Twin Metals underground mine site near Ely, a community of about 3,000 people. ![]() The Trump administration reinstated those leases in 2019 as part of its push to lessen U.S. The Obama administration declined to renew Twin Metals’ mineral rights leases in its final weeks in office in 2016, citing the threat of acid mine drainage to the Boundary Waters, the country’s most-visited federally designated wilderness area. The court saw through this and in its decision to toss out the case, affirmed science, affirmed the law, and protected some of the cleanest water in the country,” Chris Knopf, executive director of Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, said in a statement. “Twin Metals was making a Hail Mary pass in its hope to get around the law and facts. ![]()
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