Column: Trump 2.0 won’t reverse Biden’s critical minerals push
Donald Trump has described the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) as a "green scam" and vowed to repeal it after he returns to the White House in January.
An Arizona court sided with an environmental group and denied the issuance of an air quality control permit to the Rosemont Copper Company.
Rosemont, which is planning to build a $1.2 billion mine near Tucson, had been issued Arizona Department of Environmental Quality permit. The approval was challenged by Save The Scenic Santa Ritas group, which claimed that the figures used for the modelling used by the agency was faulty. The environmental group argued that the modelling inputs, which were provided to Arizona’s regulatory agency, were neither representative nor conservative.
Jude Crane McClennen of the Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, agreed.
“Based on the foregoing, this Court concludes there was not substantial evidence to support the action of the AzDEQ, and the action of the AzDEQ was contrary to law, was arbitrary and capricious, and was an abuse of discretion,” wrote the judge in his ruling.
Rosemont copper project is a porphyry and skarn deposit.
Rosemont copper project is located 50km SE of Tucson.
2 Comments
Mike Failla
if IT CANT BE GROWN, IT MUST BE MINED! Madminer, I totally agree with your ssentiment. When the right word goes in the right ear so to speak.Something here is not right.
Nevermin(e)d
It wont be infused into Tucson. The Canada-based company will most likely sell to quickly expanding countries, mainly China, Brazil, and India for infrastructure. Profits will go to a foreign economy since it is not a US owned company. Once the project is complete the money will leave as well (look at Flint, MI when GM pulled out), and a 20 year project will have 500 years of damages as acidic tailings continue to pollute the water. Let some other foolish place wreck their land, air, and water, Tucson isn’t that desperate yet to be fall for such tricks. Short-term mining projects are a tax on the desperate and mathematically incompetent. Let Maricopa county do it with their Resolution mine.