The Biden administration is reportedly busy trying to fund rare earth mineral mining in Canada, in large part to help acquire the resources for its radical environmentalist push in the United States. This, in spite of the fact, that in the past the Biden administration has been keen to block any domestic mining efforts in the US.
As The Daily Caller reports:
The Biden administration is considering funding the Canadian mining and metal industry as it is desperate to acquire more rare earth minerals to build renewable energy technologies; however, the administration has previously blocked the development of U.S. mining efforts, according to E&E News.
Following the passage of the Democrats’ massive climate spending package, the Biden administration is looking to import critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel and may even give money to the Canadian mining industry to acquire such minerals and help push mineral supply chains out of Chinese hands, according to E&E News. Although it is desperate to produce these minerals and confront the Chinese dominance of the mineral market, the administration has blocked major mining projects in Minnesota and Alaska.
“The Department of The Interior is not for development of any kind … whether its mining or oil and gas,” Steve Milloy, a member of former President Donald Trump’s EPA transition team, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Canada has courts and climate activists and does not the same ability to undercut China’s slave labor and therefore, the plan has serious limitations.”
The move to acquire minerals from outside the U.S. comes amid the Biden administration’s repeated efforts to prevent domestic mining developments. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in May that it would review a proposal that dealt a significant blow to the Pebble Project, an Alaska mining project that would produce about 1.5 billion tons of critical minerals over 20 years. Additionally, Biden’s Interior Department (DOI) canceled two mineral leases belonging to the Twin Metals Mine in Minnesota in January, halting the mine’s construction.
Whats wrong with our mines??
That’s why Democrat, braindead Joe Biden is the Schmuck in Chief!
Senile Biden = Obama’s sock puppet!
Biden, you are your administration will be the first in American history. You will be put on trial and hung for your treason against the American people.
What do you mean cabin monoxey helfs trees go shooshhhh. Sorry that`s carbon monoxie helps the trees go? Dow? Now you have got me doing it.
Off with his head!