Currently, Canoe Country is up against significant threats: - Representative Stauber and his anti-Wilderness cronies in Congress are doing everything they can to reverse the 20-year ban on mining protections we achieved earlier this year including attaching sneaky riders and amendments onto must-pass budget bills.
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Antofagasta, the Chilean mining giant behind the Twin Metals mine, will stop at nothing to resurrect its rejected sulfide-ore copper mine in the watershed of the Boundary Waters. Just this year, Antofagasta is on track to spend about three-quarters of a million dollars lobbying on “mining issues” in Congress.
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