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This is why the forest service was kneecapped. (mander.xyz)

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[-] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 65 points 5 days ago

I have a feeling they’ll have a much harder time pushing through mining operations in Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire than they did in West VA. This will be received like proposals of mining the great lakes would in MI or WI, and many of the residents (Boston area professors) have the resources and energy to resist it.

[-] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

Didn’t they just remove the mining protection from the BWCA?

[-] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yep and they’re working on removing protections for other federal land which I have little doubt they’ll* accomplish given it was the fed previously protecting it. I’m just saying I think it will be difficult to actually implement projects in some places due to local opposition combined with the energy and resources to sustain that opposition.

Not a good thing overall btw, by my figuring it just means under-resourced regions will continue to shoulder the bulk of industrial waste and pollution because they’ll be the least equipped to resist. Tale as old as time.

[-] rayyy@piefed.social 12 points 5 days ago

Pennsylvania which has a lot of lithium that can be extracted without mining. Brine from fracking can be a major source. Lithium extraction from fracking brine can be relatively sustainable considering fracking is already being done.

[-] MohamedMoney@feddit.org 5 points 5 days ago

For now.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont all have different groups that individually disagree with mining once protected wilderness. The only selection of people pushing for this would be the rich who want the money.

I would not fuck with rights of New Hampshire. They will come after you. Never met one who wasn't a bit off.

[-] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 8 points 5 days ago

It’s like the push to deforest the western states. You’ll be surprised by the weird alliances that pop up when billionaires show up in the backyard. Wish we could find common ground broadly, but I guess I’ll take what I can get.

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

When the Civil War was breaking out and the governor of Vermont called for the state to raise $500k to support the war effort, the legislature passed a bill to raise a full million.

When they were called upon to send one regiment of men to fight, they organized seven.

Vermont, also, would not be a good state with which to openly fuck.

I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all, because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who almost beggared themselves to serve others. If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the union and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont.

--Calvin Coolidge

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

They may be a bunch of hippie hillbillies, but they're the most chaotic good state. They fought in the revolutionary war and then didn't join the union for a while