Letters to the Editor
Congressman Pete Stauber cried a river for a Chilean company that wants to mine the public’s copper from the public’s land upstream from the public’s most popular Wilderness Area. But he voted against the $1 trillion infrastructure bill that will repair bridges over real rivers—and do lots more—for the people of Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District whom he represents, however When, earlier this year, the Biden Administration cancelled federal mining leases that the Trump Administration had illegally renewed for Chilean mining conglomerate Antofagasta’s Twin Metals project on federal land adjacent to and in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Stauber hauled out his “assault on our way of life” crib sheet (he means a way of life that existed many decades ago and that will never return) and spewed forth. But he apparently couldn’t find his notes when another giant company, Cleveland Cliffs, laid off some 400 Steelworkers in northern Minnesota because the company was miffed that the price of taconite ore was reducing its profit margin. Stauber has maintained silence over the company’s initiation of what will, by all accounts,
