Louis V. Galdieri (@lvgaldieri.bsky.social)

Here’s the Deputy Secretary of the Interior Doing the Bidding of a Foreign Mining Company 2025-07-17-memo-reinstating-m-37049Download On the very same day that the DC District Court of Appeals issued its per curiam opinion putting the Boundary Waters litigation on hold for 90 days, Deputy…

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Here’s the Deputy Secretary of the Interior Doing the Bidding of a Foreign Mining Company 2025-07-17-memo-reinstating-m-37049Download On the very same day that the DC District Court of Appeals issued its per curiam opinion putting the Boundary Waters litigation on hold for 90 days, Deputy Secretary of the Interior Kate MacGregor issued this memo, re-instating the Jorjani M-Opinion. That legal opinion misconstrues history, suppresses evidence, and twists logic to say that Twin Metals has a "non-discretionary" right to renewal of its mining leases on the edge of the Boundary Waters: put crudely, it says that a foreign mining company has more discretion over the disposition of federal lands than the United States government. https://lvgaldieri.com/2025/08/03/heres-the-deputy-secretary-of-the-interior-doing-the-bidding-of-a-foreign-mining-company/