The Biden administration blocked plans for a major nickel and cobalt mine in northern Minnesota while the U.S. remains reliant on overseas supply chains for its critical minerals
- The "Twin Metals Project" would have tapped the Duluth Complex within the Superior National Forest, where 95% of the nation's nickel reserves and 88% of American cobalt reserves remain underground.
- Now, pending litigation over leases, the Department of the Interior has blocked the nearly $3 billion mine over concerns about the safety of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness inside the national forest.
Biden’s African Pivot
- Biden signed an agreement to fund mining projects in Chinese-owned mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where over 40,000 children work as slaves in forced labor and inhumane conditions with no environmental protections
- The State Department pledged to help build an EV battery supply chain in Congo and Zambia
- Meanwhile, President Biden's Department of the Interior has stonewalled efforts at effective oversight
In May last year, the department demanded thousands of dollars to release records on an earlier decision to cancel leases.
- Peter McGinnis, a spokesman for the Functional Government Initiative (FGI), which filed the request for documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), told The Federalist Thursday the department eventually waived the fee but has yet to comply with the public transparency law.
Bottom Line
- The Biden administration is advocating for a clean-energy transition and claims it is fixing the supply chain crisis.
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