mine Oak Flat for years..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_Copper
Apaches have marched six times in protest of the site, most recently in February 2020. In face of the mounting protests, the Biden administration ultimately pushed back the environmental assessment due to inadequate public and tribal input in March 2021. In a June 2021 op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, the chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe objected that it would not only destroy his tribe's cultural heritage, but also the local tourism industry and Arizona's groundwater supply. It is estimated that the project would collapse a region 2 miles (3.2 km) wide around Oak Flat into a sinkhole 1,100 feet (340 m) deep.
Oh, btw..another final days of the pigs admin..rushing thru..
Both the Oak Flat Campground, an area dotted with petroglyphs and historic and prehistoric sites, and the steep cliffs at Apache Leap would be affected. In July 2015, a march protesting the land swap arrived in Washington DC.
The initial report was rushed through during the final days of the Donald Trump administration, and under the provisions of Section 3003 ownership was scheduled to occur on March 11, 2021. The
Joe Biden administration withdrew the report on March 2 to demand more input from the public and Indigenous nations. On March 18, Representative Raúl Grijalva reintroduced the Save Oak Flat Act for the fourth time, which would repeal the mandate to transfer the land transfer of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper.
The history of RIO TINTO company is littered with examples of environmental pollution, dispossessing people of their lands and destroying valuable cultural heritage, but the consequences it has faced have been few and far between. It still trades shares on the London Stock Exchange, still operates in 35 countries and still has an income of over $10 billion a year.
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