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Bruce Westerman: It might be the Southern. Is it your position that if there is any copper or nickel or cobalt mined in Superior National…

On the recordMay 10, 2023
It might be the Southern. Is it your position that if there is any copper or nickel or cobalt mined in Superior National Forest, that the Boundary Waters Canoe Area is over as we know it today?
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Bruce Westerman
Republican · Arkansas

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Westerman questions the impact of mining on the Boundary Waters.

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