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Nicholas Begich: “So many of these minerals and resources are being developed…”

Featuring: Nicholas Begich, Republican | U.S. House Alaska At-large District

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Published | Video Starts at 18:21

… some of the national press and certainly from the Biden administration, that we must transition to this new green economy and how wonderful it is. And yet we know that So many of these minerals and resources are being developed in jurisdictions that do not honor any sort of environmental norms. around how you extract these resources and how you treat the environment. And oh, by the way, so many children, so many of these jurisdictions, yes, they're using child labor. (18:21–18:29)

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Asserts that many minerals are extracted in places without environmental norms.

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