{"id":1833070,"date":"2023-02-02T14:35:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T19:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1833070"},"modified":"2023-02-02T14:41:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T19:41:36","slug":"id-rather-give-those-jobs-to-americans-crenshaw-rips-biden-environmentalists-on-blocking-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/id-rather-give-those-jobs-to-americans-crenshaw-rips-biden-environmentalists-on-blocking-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019d Rather Give Those Jobs To Americans\u2019: Crenshaw Rips Biden, Environmentalists On Blocking Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fid-rather-give-those-jobs-to-americans-crenshaw-rips-biden-environmentalists-on-blocking-mining%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1833070&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Texas GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw confronted Biden&#8217;s administration and environmentalists on Wednesday. Crenshaw stated that the environmentists are putting America at risk due to their hostility toward mining.<\/p>\n<p>Crenshaw pointed this out in a lengthy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanCrenshawTX\/status\/1620917909433487360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter thread<\/a> Despite what environmentalists might say, \u201cWind turbines and natural gas plants are not a one-to-one trade off. Building wind turbines and solar panels requires 10x the materials to deliver the same amount of energy we get with oil and gas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuilding a 100MW wind farm requires: 30,000 tons of iron ore, 50,000 tons of concrete, and 900 tons of non-recyclable plastics \u2014 and that\u2019s just the basics,\u201d He explained.<\/p>\n<p>He also observed that the United States has become increasingly dependent on foreign countries for its minerals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCountries like China have eaten our lunch when it comes to lithium refining. Lithium matters because it goes into all sorts of batteries, especially for electric vehicles,\u201d He said. Consumer electronics and energy storage are also dependent on lithium.<\/p>\n<p>He then mentioned several sites where mining was restricted, which has contributed to a lack of valuable minerals. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2022\/08\/03\/lithium-mining-oregon-alvord-desert-playa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There are huge quantities of lithium deposits<\/a> Oregon, where activists have hindered mining \u201cthat could support production of 1 million electric vehicles annually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d He asked rhetorically. \u201cTo protect the sage grouse \u2014 which, let\u2019s be honest, is basically a fancy chicken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turning to Nevada, he stated that lithium mining at the proposed Rhyolite Ridge lithium mine\u00a0was \u201ctied up\u201d Aufgrund von a <a href=\"https:\/\/biologicaldiversity.org\/w\/news\/press-releases\/lawsuit-seeks-emergency-protections-rare-nevada-wildflower-2020-09-29\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forensic attorney<\/a> involving Tiehm\u2019s buckwheat, which allegedly could become endangered.<\/p>\n<p>Crenshaw observed that President Biden was a notable example <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2022\/01\/26\/biden-administration-cancels-twin-metals-leases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Annulled Leases<\/a> There are parts of Minnesota that could produce copper, nickel, or cobalt from mining in 2022. \u201cIt\u2019s also the only sizable place in the country where we get taconite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy does taconite matter? Steel,\u201d he declared, explaining, \u201cTaconite gets taken out of the ground and turned into steel. Steel goes into every structure you see around you. And right now, China is one of our biggest steel competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNational security aside \u2014 it\u2019s lunacy to think that any other country is mining cleaner or with fairer labor practices. I\u2019d rather give those jobs to Americans. For the sake of the planet and American workers, it pays for the U.S. to take the lead on this,\u201d He disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica is blessed with resources, resources we can use for things like solar panels and wind turbines and everything else we need. Why don\u2019t radical environmentalists want to use them?\u201d He concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw confronted the Biden administration and environmentalists on Wednesday, saying that they are putting the nation at risk because of their hostility to mining. Crenshaw pointed out in a long Twitter thread that despite what some environmentalists may propound, \u201cWind turbines and natural gas plants are not a one-to-one trade off. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1833073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[9730,3884,3620,5549,5242,7538,4330,15374,4015],"class_list":["post-1833070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-id","tag-americans","tag-biden","tag-blocking","tag-crenshaw","tag-environmentalists","tag-jobs","tag-mining","tag-rips"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1833073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}