Do my colleagues realize that of the 1,200 sites on the Superfund list that 59 of the sites on the Superfund list are directly related to hardrock mining? We are spending millions of dollars a year right now of the taxpayers' money to clean up site after site after site where they walked off and left an unmitigated environmental disaster, after paying no royalty. The American taxpayers are left to pick up the tab.
Discussing the financial burden of Superfund cleanups related to hardrock mining.
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