PHOENIX (CN) — For the third time in five years, Western Apaches appeared before the Ninth Circuit to prevent the construction of a copper mine set to swallow their ancestral holy land in a two-mile-wide crater.
Though the government says its hands are tied by an act of Congress mandating that the patch of land in eastern Arizona be transferred to the private mining company Resolution Copper, San Carlos Apaches and a coalition of environmentalists argued Wednesday that a preliminary injunction is required to address serious flaws in the U.S. Forest Service’s final environmental impact statement.
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