16 Jan 2025 4:08 pm
How many of those states would be open to strip mining for decades?Skans » 16 Jan 2025, 4:45 pm » wrote: ↑ Don't know. Don't care either. There are 49 other states with "rare earth minerals", and at least 5 American territories to exploit as well. We should start with Puerto Rico first.
Not many ...
Strip mining is a dirty business...a very dirty business.
You may initially talk some states into doing it ...
but how long before the citizens of those states kick the mines to the curb ...because of the environmental damage it will do to their states....
State governor's and governments cannot guarantee anything beyond their terms ...
and you cannot federally mandate it because of a very important thing called state sovereignty.....