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| Dear Friend, |
| One of America’s most visited wilderness areas is facing a full-on assault by the mining industry’s allies in Congress. If corporate polluters get their way, a 20-year mining ban protecting the Boundary Waters watershed from toxic copper mining will be overturned. Write to your senators now to oppose this dangerous resolution. |
| The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota is a vast network of over 1,000 lakes and unspoiled forests stretching across more than one million acres. Generations of visitors have canoed, camped, and hiked along the area’s 1,200 miles of rivers and streams. |
| It’s also just upstream of where Chilean mining giant Antofagasta wants to build the toxic Twin Metals copper-nickel mine. If built, the Twin Metals mine would mean the permanent destruction of habitat for hundreds of species like wolves, moose, loons, lynx, and walleye. |
| As climate change shrinks our planet’s biodiversity, we can’t afford to lose the Boundary Waters — or the thousands of jobs it sustains for the region’s outdoor tourism economy. |
| For years, conservationists, hunters, anglers, small business owners, and local residents have fought to protect this precious wilderness. Now, members of Congress are trying to gut those protections, using a questionable maneuver that bypasses the normal democratic process and ignores the voices of Americans. If this resolution passes, it will mean prioritizing the profits of a Chilean mining company over our beloved public lands. |
| Amid the attacks on Minnesota’s residents and clean waters, our partners continue to remind us that the Boundary Waters and all our public lands are worth fighting for. Remind your senators that they work for their constituents and not corporations. We must keep protections for the Boundary Waters in place. |
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Sincerely,
Adam Ratchenski
Senior Attorney, Midwest
Earthjustice |
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