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State agencies are bending over backwards to help a foreign mining company put your health at risk
In 2024 SSSR proved in court that the Arizona State Department of land broke the Public Meetings Law so that Canadian mining company Hudbay could get a right-of-way to pump toxic mine waste across state land and pile it near your homes and schools. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, which has the mission of protecting health and the environment, has ignored citizen and scientific input and misinterpreted data to give Hubay water and air permits. It's time to fight back!
Protest before it's too late
Does it make you angry that the state's Department of Environmental Quality misinterpreted data to give Hudbay a less safe Class II air permit instead of the safer Class I? Does it make you mad that the Arizona State Department of Land broke the law to give Hudbay a right-of-way across the Santa Rita Experimental Range?
Show your outrage by attending the Rally for the Santa Ritas, Saturday May 3rd in Downtown Tucson. Click here for rally info.
For info about other great upcoming SSSR events, click here.
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Arsenic and lead
These are just two of the poisons that will be found in Copper World's millions of tons of mining waste.
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Hudbay plans to pile this dust hundreds of feet high within 600 feet of homes and one-and-a-half miles from an elementary school in Corona de Tucson. Wind across the waste piles could blow dust into the community where children will breath it.
Make the politicians pay!
Let them know that if they don't stop putting the profits of foreign mining companies like Hudbay above your and your children's health that you'll make them pay at the ballot box.
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Truck traffic
More than 100 heavy truck trips per day carrying copper ore will pound across unpaved Santa Rita Road through the Santa Rita Experimental Range and then pass through Sahuarita on their way to and from I-19, sending the ore for refining overseas.
This means Copper World's nonstop heavy trucks would bisect Sahuarita's main commercial corridor carrying copper concentrate, diesel fuel, sulfuric acid, and other hazardous chemicals and explosives.
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