Toastie, 2 months ago

The world's 3rd largest copper deposit is in #Arizona. It's essential to #RenewableEnergy projects. Resolution Copper wants to extract it. But the copper is beneath Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, AKA Oak Flat.

“Oak Flat is like Mount Sinai to us,” says Wendsler Nosie (San Carlos Apache) of Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit fighting to protect the area.

✍️ @siisiikostagner

#Indigenous #climate #JustTransition #GreenColonialism

https://grist.org/indigenous/the-massive-copper-mine-that-could-test-the-limits-of-religious-freedom/