Permitting challenges are ubiquitous across American infrastructure. In fact, they’ve become outsize obstacles to modernizing and building the roads, electricity transmission lines, pipelines and mines of tomorrow. (1 of 5)
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Modernizing the nation’s failing infrastructure, reshoring supply chains and deploying tomorrow’s energy solutions are all dependent on building and doing so at a scale and speed we haven’t achieved in decades. But, under our current permitting regime, it simply won’t happen.
For copper, which provides the irreplaceable wiring for electrification, annual demand is projected by 2050 to reach a level equal to all the #copper consumed in the world between 1900 and 2021.
Our challenge is not geology but policy. With one of the longest permitting processes in the world, mine permitting now takes an avg of 7-10 years, if approved at all.
Permitting delays have eroded investor confidence and pushed mining investment and production abroad/End
Permitting delays have eroded investor confidence and pushed mining investment and production abroad/End
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