“Mining at the site is, however, contested by Native Americans for whom the area is sacred...”
I foresee a new Trail of Tears.
Religions that no one practices except for a few thousand activists and theatrical atheists, and the only religions (being many tribes with their own versions) that can get away with having vast regions and even mountain ranges called and seriously treated by politicians and media as “sacred’.
“Saving the planet” may require a genocide or two...or three..or more....
:-(