Stop! You Can’t Dig Here
We’re told we need more minerals for everything, especially green energy. But John Stossel reports that American regulators and environmental groups keep killing new mines.
“Why in the world would you put billions of dollars at risk to get a permit? Knowing they’ll just cancel a permit!” Physicist Mark Mills writes about the absurd regulations in the mining industry. “You’re going to be waiting, not months, not years, but the record shows decades.”
Stossel says America used to lead the world in producing minerals. Now we rank next to last in the time it takes to develop mines. How did this happen? Because rich environmental groups hate mines. They run deceitful ads and even collude with government to block mines. In the following report, Stossel explains some of the many reasons why this is a huge problem.
