Scoop: Sinema pushes to open up mining

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8. 2 massive issues they are going to...

Attempt to sweep under the carpet that make this a bad idea until some big changes in mining laws and regs are changed.

Reform of the General Mining Act of 1872 - to require that corporations pay a true dollar value for that which they extract. Right now, mining in the US, especially on public land, is cheaper than dirt and bilks the nation of billions of $$ every year since 1872. Why do you think China, and other foreign entities, want to buy up all those permits?

Mining operators are big $$ and they benefit from and got rich because of the General Mining Act of 1872 which gives away our natural resources and trash the surrounding ecosystems with habitat loss and forever pollutants.


EPA/NEPA/ESA need to be required and enforced, vigorously, in ALL operations whether on public or private lands in order to ensure environmental justice is a component of permitting.

Without these considerations, mining operations will continue to pollute and rip us off with impunity as they have done for at least a century. The 1872 Mining Act is what ensured there would always be robber barons like the Kochs.