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Reuters | September 11, 2024
A Native American group on Wednesday asked the US Supreme Court to block Rio Tinto and BHP from gaining access to Arizona land needed to build one of the world’s largest copper mines, a last-ditch legal move in a long-running case pitting religious rights against the energy transition.
Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit group comprised of Arizona’s San Carlos Apache tribe and conservationists, asked the court to overturn a March ruling from a sharply divided San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals allowing the federal government to swap acreage with the mining companies for their Resolution Copper project.
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The appeal to the nine justices was delivered in person by a courier after the Apache held a ceremony of prayer and dancing on the court’s steps in Washington, the culmination of a months-long caravan from their Arizona reservation to the capital.
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ETA: This is a strip mine. Others are trying to put a Lithium strip mine in my County.
