Frattaloni Tardewer and Garden Stores brings your garage logic podcast number 778,

January 26, 2022. We reach a high of 52 degrees on this day. In 1931, and it was 26 below on this

day in 1897. And now from the mayor's office above the boat house on the east shore of Spoon Lake,

it's garage logic with working on production, grace reavers, director of social media, John

Heid in the newsroom and occasionally Kenny from the crabby coffee shop. Here is your flashlight king,

fireworks commissioner, and keeper of common sense, the only mayor, Joe Sushiman. It's just breaking

now via the start-reviewing that the Biden administration today cancelled two mineral leases for

the proposed twin metals copper nickel mine in northern Minnesota, likely killing a project widely

condemned for being too close to the pristine boundary waters canoe area wilderness. The huge

underground mine would have tapped major residers of copper in nickel nickel minerals key to a low carbon

ecomment economy, but also posed serious risks of God, I can't read how we're doing serious risks

of contaminating the many waters surrounding it with sulfide and toxic heavy metals.

Polls showed many Minnesotans did not support creating a heavy industrial operation at a gateway

to the country's most visited wilderness. The US Department of Interior filed its legal determination

today in the US Court of Appeals in Washington DC where a lawsuit challenging the leases was on

appeal. The two minerals leases were essential for twin metals, a subsidiary of Chile and mining

giant Antofagasta to develop the mine its first major effort outside Chile. Okay, but Biden,

you're being told by whoever controls you that we're all supposed to be in electric cars.

Thank you. How are we going to make the batteries? Oh, we don't know about that, Joe.

The guy, hold up, wait a minute. Some something, right. Everything's not right.

Well, you close down pipelines, Biden, and then you ask

Arabs to produce more oil. And that's essentially the same thing he's doing here.

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