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You are here: Home / News / Environmental groups say they’ll sue after U-S government reinstated mineral-rights leases for Twin Metals

Environmental groups say they’ll sue after U-S government reinstated mineral-rights leases for Twin Metals

May 2, 2018 By Bill Werner

A group called Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness and other organizations say they will sue after the U-S Interior Department reinstated mineral-rights leases for Twin Metals, which wants to build a copper-nickel mine near Ely. The group says it represents the 70 percent of Minnesotans opposed to mining near the B-W-C-A Wilderness. Those mineral-rights leases were denied in the final weeks of the Obama administration. Backers of the project say new technology will protect the surrounding waters, and the project will bring much-needed jobs to northeastern Minnesota.

 

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