The justices left in place lower court decisions allowing the transfer of the Tonto National Forest land, known as Oak Flat, to Resolution Copper, which plans to mine what it says is the second-largest known copper deposit in the world.
The Trump administration has said it will push to complete the transfer.
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in dissent that it was a “grievous mistake” not to take up the appeal.
“Recognizing Oak Flat’s significance, the government has long protected both the land and the Apaches’ access to it,” Gorsuch wrote, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas. “No more. Now, the government and a mining conglomerate want to turn Oak Flat into a massive hole in the ground.”
How about the fact that we keep giving them land for them to have, live on, and control, and then we rip it away from them as soon as we want something in it? Natives are only left alone on land with no value, because as soon as value is found, we steal it back. Just look at the Osage murders; and that’s only one time it happened.
I’m not saying I agree with the other commenter, specially in the tone, but… where do you think the copper inside your walls comes from? Is this a NIMBY or are you proposing we abandon electricity altogether?
Mining is super messy, all of it. For the environment, the people living in surrounding areas, the workers… I think it was just yesterday I read an article about copper mining in Chile: polluted waterways, lots of orphans when a mine collapsed, people sick, others displaced from their homes… you know real actual problems, not some superstition.
Couldn’t we get the copper without fucking so many people so bad? Certainly, but that would affect profits so it’s not happening.
looks at what electricity is used for currently
I meannnnnn
Copper should be mined. There is no reason to keep it intact. Natives or not.
What a garbage take.
Awh man… They’re infiltrating Lemmy again. :(
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