In an effort to save Oak Flat, a sacred area to Apache tribes located in the Tonto National Forest in Arizona, a number of advocates traveled to Washington, D.C. last Thursday to testify in a hearing before the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States: “The Irreparable Environmental and Cultural Impacts of the Proposed Resolution Copper Mining Operation.”
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The proposed project by Resolution Copper LLC, which is owned foreign companies Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, seeks to extract copper from one of the largest untapped deposits in the world that would “supply the world with the copper it needs to support ongoing technological and environmental innovation,” according to their website.
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