Posted on 05/03/2025 1:07:00 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Today, the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (Permitting Council) announced the second installment of critical mineral production projects to be featured as FAST-41 transparency projects. This second batch of projects is part of an ongoing series of critical projects receiving the transparency of the Federal Permitting Dashboard in response to President Trump’s Executive Order, Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production.
“The Permitting Council is excited to grow our portfolio of critical mineral production projects with this latest tranche,” says Manisha Patel, Permitting Council Acting Executive Director. “The transparency that these projects will receive as a result of being featured on the Federal Permitting Dashboard will be transformative, allowing stakeholders across government and industry the ability to track the progress of these projects, ensuring a level of accountability in environmental review that is often missing from the traditional process.”
The chair of the National Energy Dominance Council (NEDC) submitted this second batch of critical minerals production projects to the Permitting Council Acting Executive Director in response to President Trump’s Executive Order, Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production. NEDC submitted the initial group of 10 projects on April 4, 2025, and they were added to the Federal Permitting Dashboard on April 18, 2025. This second batch is part of a continual process to provide these critical projects with the transparency afforded by FAST-41 and more projects are scheduled to be added in the coming weeks.
Inclusion on the Permitting Dashboard as a transparency project makes the environmental review and authorizations schedule for these vital mineral production projects publicly available and allows all of these projects to benefit from increased transparency. The public nature of the dashboard ensures that all stakeholders, from project sponsors and community members to federal agency leaders have up-to-date accounting of where each project stands in the review process. This transparency leads to greater accountability, ensuring a more efficient process.
Additional selected projects include:
This list of projects is in addition to the initial list announced April, 18, 2025, with many more expected to be announced soon. The Permitting Council is committed to working closely with the National Energy Dominance Council and other Federal partners to advance President Trump’s bold agenda to make America energy dominant again, and use all necessary resources to build critical infrastructure.
For further information about these projects, please visit Federal Permitting Dashboard’s Transparency Projects Tab. Learn more about the Permitting Council at permitting.gov.
Onward!
Is this the mineral worth over 100 trillion? I heard they easily could pay off the debt and still have 80 trillion left or more. I’m not sure why this isn’t getting more traction. This changes everything.
Google NIOCORP. Hopefully this os one that gains traction as its in a conservative state, Nebraska.
Obvious problems if it is privately owned land.
Can always confiscate that, but probably easier to confiscate everything from Zuckerberg, Gates and Bezos. Would not face the uncertainty of doing the mining then.
But of course they may add up to $1T. Rather too little.
In the end, the issue is you must find a buyer who happens to have $31T sitting around in cash ready to buy these minerals. Or . . . about the only entity with that would be the Fed. They can create $31T and buy the minerals, and put those in their special account along with the $6T from QE. Of course, then you have $62T in debt plus some land with minerals yet to be mined.
Just about every filled and closed land-fill could be mined for rare earths.
Mathematics asked that I post here. I agreed to do so pro bono. You should be grateful, or rather, math should be.
Why not do your own math? You’ll feel better.
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