Babbitt would have no bearing on this subject

This is some of your best work.

This is some of your best work.

Babbitt would have no bearing on this subject

It's better to rely on communist China and 3rd world countries to procure our necessary minerals.

I can live without it.

Can you live without your car?

Phone?

Anything electrical?

Mining has impact. How do we live without minerals?

For all you that don't like mines start living like Amish.

It’s pure ignorance to ignore our Natural Resources while purchasing from an adversary !

My two cents. I spent most of my working career with the BLM and USFS. This land is currently National Forest. The environmental analysis done by the Forest Service showed there would be substantial pollution from a mining operation to public lands. During my time with the BLM I had a highly respected geologist tell me that 95% of mining on Federal lands are nothing but scams. Most people aren't aware that congress under both major parties have chosen not to replace the 1872 Mining Law which still governs mining on federal public lands. Having had to permit mining claims myself I can tell you most are not legitimate and the bonds required under current law are insufficient to remediate the damage when the operation is complete. The public is left holding the bag and has to pay the price to clean up the left-over mess. There is also the continuing and increasing failure of public officials and government agencies (and employees) to do their jobs in enforcing current laws and regulations in all aspects of our society. Responsible mining absolutely has its place in our world. The professionals in the US Forest Service evaluated the risks and impacts of this proposal and found it detrimental to the environment and the public interest. Bought and paid for politicians of both major parties overruled them. Another example of why term limits are needed so we have people representing the public interest in congress and not the agenda of their corporate masters. We are destroying our nation for a dollar and the very resources we as trappers and hunters depend on. Drinking water is the most critical resource we have in this country and it's becoming scarcer every year. No project negatively affecting this basic human need should ever be approved.

Could you please post your references for clean drinking water becoming scarcer every year? I haven't been in the Boundary Waters since I was a kid in Boy Scouts, and haven't researched the proposed mining at all, so can't comment on that. But unless you can prove differently, I very much doubt that clean drinking water is actually getting scarcer in the US.

No protected land is safe Anwr is getting opened up so may as well open up drilling both the east and west cost The U.S. oil producers sell more of the oil produced here than we keep here and use As Trump said on the tv come buy here we have more than we need.