"I urge Congress to pass this bill because of the devastating and irreparable cultural and environmental impacts that would ensue if this mine were developed."
"This mine will consume enough water to supply a city of 140,000 people every year for 50 years."
"There is really just not enough groundwater to go around in this part of Arizona."
"The EIS claims that Resolution's water use adheres to Arizona's norms and values, but depleting groundwater aquifers is the exact opposite of Arizona's values."
"This mine would have profound and irreversible impacts on the citizens of Arizona and the environment."
"If tribal consultation had been codified at the time of Section 3003's insertion into the NDAA in 2015, could this land transfer have been prevented?"
"When we don't have consultation, we are vulnerable to another sovereign taking unilateral action against our lands, territories, and resources, not only without hearing our voice, but we think that we..."
"None of that was accomplished here, and what it meant was this bill was passed without the knowledge, the wisdom, the timeless honored traditions of the San Carlos Apache people and was done unilatera..."
"These are things that you cannot find on the internet, study in a book, or any other environmental study."
"Nearby communities need to be concerned about water scarcity, frankly, even without Resolution, and this only makes it worse."
"it will likely require an Act of Congress to stop the Resolution Copper Mine and save the Apache religion, our culture and way of life, and the region's water supply for future generations."
"Rio Tinto has a long-established partnership to supply copper to China--they repeatedly stated--and at a hearing refused to say what percentage of the copper generated from Federal lands would be reta..."