Opponents of copper-nickel mining say the bill won t go anywhere in Congress. 2:56 pm, Apr. 16, 2021 ×
U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber, R-Hermantown, speaks at the University of Wisconsin-Superior’s Lake Superior Research Institute in September. (Jed Carlson / 2020 file / News Tribune)
DULUTH U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber introduced a bill that would speed up the federal permitting process for mining projects on federal land.
The bill would require permitting to finish within two and a half years, prevent duplication of work by federal agencies if it s already done by a state agency and set performance standards and other timelines to track permitting agencies.
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ELY In a wide-ranging press conference last week, representatives of the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters outlined their plans to block the proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine and achieve permanent protection from sulfide mining on 234,000 acres of the Rainy River watershed located upstream of the BWCAW.
Using a strategy that combines political advocacy and lobbying, building coalitions with the business community and outdoor enthusiasts, and litigation where necessary, the campaign has laid the groundwork to advance their objectives under a new administration and Congress that appears friendlier to environmental protection and sustainable economics than was the case for the past four years.
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Just a few miles from where PolyMet plans on processing copper, nickel, and other precious metals, Congressman Pete Stauber hosted a community conversation about critical minerals. A few dozen community, industry, and business leaders were on hand at community center in Aurora. We have the responsibility to do it right, he told them. Keep having those civil conversations.
Stauber is the Republican leader on the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
Congressman Pete Stauber encouraged mining supporters to keep having civil conversations about the importance of critical minerals.
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He told the group he ll be having conversations like this with top level leadership. We are going to be communicating with the White House and Cabinet members, in the next couple of weeks. And all indications are that President Biden s administration will follow through on the commitment to more critical
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None of the president s Cabinet nominees was greeted more happily by more people than his choice of Rep. Deb Haaland to be Secretary of the Interior. Having one of the only two Native American women to be elected to Congress running the executive department most responsible not only for the government s relationship with indigenous people, but also for the land and water and air on which they live and breathe, seemed like a vast historical debt was at least partially paid. In addition, Haaland would be tasked with carrying out the new administration s attempts to roll back the pillaging of public lands for private gain that was one of the primary characteristics of the previous administration . Haaland is enormously popular both in Washington and back home in New Mexico. The choice seemed inspired.