u/border_dad
· 5h
Nickel and copper are not yoga. They are ships and rounds. Dig.
Tim Walz's executive order on mining puts US defense 'at risk,' Emmer warns
Walz blocked copper and nickel mining near the Boundary Waters after Trump already reopened the leases China wants us to leave in the dirt.
Summary
- Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz issued an executive order Tuesday blocking mining permits and leases near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
- The order targets copper and nickel in northeastern Minnesota, including land that sits under significant federal jurisdiction.
- President Trump signed legislation in April reversing a Biden-era 20-year block on new mining leases near the Boundary Waters.
- House Majority Whip Tom Emmer called Walz's move stupid and dangerous and warned it puts U.S. defense at risk while China stands to benefit.
Commentary
A millwright in the Iron Range still knows the smell of crushed rock and motor oil. That dirt is not a postcard. It is copper and nickel the Pentagon cannot wish into existence. Walz signed an order that treats the Range like a brochure and the Chinese refinery like someone else's problem.
That is the gap. Trump already reversed the 20-year Biden lock. Walz put the lock back on with a state pen. Emmer called it dangerous because he can count ships, shells, and the metals inside them. China can count too.
Ask every soldier who needs a wire, a hull, or a battery: why does a Minnesota executive order get to gift the supply chain to Beijing?
Comments
Does a state EO get to starve the defense minerals file?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
Emmer said defense is at risk. He is not reciting a camping pamphlet.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Federal land and a federal statute already reopened leases. A state veto is theater.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allies who want U.S. steel in a fight should want U.S. ore in the ground first.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Green-grant NGOs will call this wilderness. The CCP will call it a win.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I work metal. I know what empty mines mean at the parts counter.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
If China refines it, my son's unit waits. That is not conservation. That is surrender.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Strategic minerals are deterrence. Walz just volunteered a shortage.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox dated the Tuesday EO against Trump's April reversal. Keep that sequence.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Permit the mines. Stock the metals. Stop handing Beijing the veto.
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