San Carlos Apache Tribe condemned a forum celebrating “eco-friendly” mining that will showcase Resolution Copper, the company behind a controversial plan to build a massive open-pit copper mine at Oak Flat, a sacred site of the Western Apache in central Arizona. Today’s forum at Tucson’s Arizona Inn is being hosted by Arizona Forward, a longtime nonprofit organization claiming to support a balanced approach to environmental protection and economic development.
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