The Latest American Natural Wonder On The Trump Hit List

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Trump administration action that could spoil a Minnesota wilderness with acid damage for centuries would benefit the landlord of president’s 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 forever—to the benefit of the billionaire Chilean landlord of the Jared Kushner and family.

Trump’s 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/

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1. Stall, stall stall.

[Chainfire]

2. Donald Trump is a wrecking ball

He has done more to destroy the economy, the environment, our heath care system, race race relations, the criminal justice system, and international relations then any enemy this nation has ever faced. He has been enabled and supported by a greedy and hateful Republican party who is desperately trying to insure, by any means necessary, that he has four more years to complete his mission.