'A water-rich environment is the wrong place to mine,' said Becky Rom of the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters, a Minnesota conservation group. environmental standards are too lax and even if Twin Metals were to meet them, the proposed mine could pollute the Boundary Waters (NYSE: WAT) Canoe Area Wilderness, a 1 million-acre (405,000-hectare) preserve on the U.S.-Canada border. 'Our leases were illegally canceled by the government, and we want to stand up for what's right and what's prescribed by law,' said Dean DeBeltz, Twin Metals' director of operations and safety.

District Court in Washington to restore the leases, which were first granted in 1966 and have been passed between successor companies. Representatives for the Interior Department declined to comment on the lawsuit. nickel mine is set to close by 2025.Ī measure passed by Congress this month would link the electric vehicle tax credit to minerals produced in the United States or in allied nations, a requirement that Twin Metals said shows its mine should be built. source of copper and nickel, two metals crucial for the green energy transition. The underground mine would, if built, be a major U.S. Department of the Interior were 'arbitrary and capricious' and that Twin Metals should have the right to prove its project can meet environmental standards.

The suit, which had been expected, said the lease cancellations in January by the U.S. government on Monday in a bid to revive its proposed Minnesota copper and nickel mine, which Biden administration officials had blocked this year over concerns it could pollute a major recreational waterway. (Reuters) - Antofagasta (LON: ANTO) Plc's Twin Metals subsidiary sued the U.S.

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