Save the Boundary Waters.
Know that the Boundary Waters generate more income from tourism than they will from toxic sulphide mining.
Yet a congressional plan to force a Chilean-owned copper mine into the headwaters of the nation’s most visited and beloved Wilderness area has been revealed through an Interior Department filing in the Congressional Record.
The Trump administration and pro-mining allies are exploiting a procedural loophole to overturn protections on 225,000 acres of YOUR public lands surrounding the Boundary Waters. This cynical maneuver has already passed the U.S. House. The Senate is expected to vote early next week.
Now we need you to stop it.
This is unprecedented. It's the first time the Congressional Review Act has been used to challenge a Public Land Order—and if it succeeds, it would dismantle nearly two decades of hard-won safeguards for the Boundary Waters watershed.
Why would anyone want to allow this precious and unspoiled legacy-- a legacy we hold in trust for the future -- to be MINED for SHORT TERM PROFIT and PERMANENT POLLUTION -- by a Chilean mining company????? What kind of corrupt kickbacks are driving this scheme?
DO NOT ALLOW RAPE AND PILLAGE OF THIS PRECIOUS SPLENDID WILD AREA>
VOTE NO ON HJ RES 140
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