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Biden halts new mining near Boundary Waters for 20 years

The administration is bringing back an Obama-era decision, later reversed by Trump, that bans new mineral leases on 225,500 acres of the Superior National Forest for the next two decades.

Minnesota

Twin Metals sues Biden administration over lease cancellation

The company and its supporters want an environmental review of its project, not a blanket ban or study on hypothetical projects within the watershed.

August 22, 2022 04:52 PM

Minnesota

Forest Service: Copper-nickel mining poses threat to Boundary Waters

The study will inform the federal government on whether to place a 20-year ban on that type of mining in the watershed.

June 23, 2022 04:32 PM

Minnesota

Interior secretary Deb Haaland open to visiting region affected by proposed Twin Metals mine

During a Friday, May 6, visit to St. Paul, Haaland said she couldn’t disclose if her agency would allow the proposed mine to move forward after the Interior canceled two mineral leases for Twin Metals, the company that wants to develop the mine. The secretary of the interior wasin Minnesota to announce nearly $9 million in federal funding for urban parks in the state.

May 06, 2022 06:01 PM

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Business

Biden administration cancels Twin Metals leases

Last year, the administration initiated a mineral withdrawal for the same watershed as the Boundary Waters.

January 26, 2022 04:37 PM

By Jimmy Lovrien

Opinion

Guest Editorial: End the secrecy and release federal BWCA study

The Trump administration should swiftly release the data, documents and analysis it relied on to make a controversial 2018 decision advancing copper mining near Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

April 19, 2019 11:26 PM

By Minneapolis Star Tribune

Opinion

Other Opinions: We must stop the political do-over on the Twin Metals mine

I remember the day the Mount Polley mine failed. Mount Polley is a copper and gold mine in British Columbia, and on Aug. 4, 2014, a tailings basin dam catastrophically failed.

February 04, 2019 05:00 PM

By By Brenda Halter

Two paddlers make their way down the Kawishiwi River near Ely. The group American Rivers has again named the Kawishiwi one of the 10 most endangered rivers in the U.S. because of the potential of polluted mine waste from the proposed Twin Metals copper mine. Forum News Service file photo

News

'America's Most Endangered Rivers' lists 2 in Minnesota

DULUTH-The Kawishiwi River near Ely, Minn., which flows out of and then back into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on its way north, has again made a list of "most endangered" rivers in the U.S.The environmental advocacy group American R...

April 10, 2018 06:32 PM

By John Myers

Opinion

Copper-nickel mining near the Boundary Waters

Chile?s Antofagasta Plc will push ahead with permitting for a copper-nickel mine in Minnesota after the Trump administration overturned an Obama-era decision to protect the Boundary Waters wilderness area.

December 31, 2017 02:00 PM

By Detroit Lakes Tribune