Raúl Grijalva

Mining is considered the highest and best use of our public lands.

The bill gives anyone the ability to stake a mining claim, whether there are valuable minerals on the land or not.

We urge Congress to reject legislative proposals that make this colonial-era law worse.

Future exploration or mining activities at the site not only threatens the health and welfare of tribal members.

The 1872 Mining Law is an outdated law that has failed to protect communities like mine.

My bill, the Clean Energy Mineral Reform Act, would do just that.

We cannot have meaningful tribal consultations as long as the mining industry has the automatic right to mine wherever they stake a claim.

We stand at the edge of a whole new mining rush.

This bill is not just a give-away to the mining industry. It is a wholesale giveaway of our public lands.

This law would apply to all of our public lands, including national parks, wilderness areas, and BLM land.

You are hearing that correctly. Any American, or notably, any American subsidiary of a foreign company could have the exclusive rights to our public lands for about $10 per acre per year.

This imbalance of power has resulted in over a century of ongoing toxic mines, scarring our landscape and poisoning our communities.

The mining industry, however, sits above all of that.

To me, the people, the first people of this country, the Native Americans, we are second-class citizens still.

Fractionated land makes land use planning extremely difficult, cumbersome, and often impractical.

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The Western Shoshone Defense Project (WSDP) firmly opposes the Mining Regulatory Clarity Act, which represents an unprecedented giveaway of public lands to mining corporations.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.