Hey KD....here's our new BOD member.... looks like he will be quite helpful to us in Idaho and good ole US of A.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Roughly seven weeks after leaving office, former Idaho BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Roughly seven weeks after leaving office, former Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter has joined the board of a Canadian mining company that is expanding into Idaho.
Otter is also the son-in-Law of Jack Simplot, worth $4 Billion... see below The Idaho Statesman reports Otter will be on the board of directors for First Cobalt, a Toronto-based company with a cobalt project southwest of Salmon, Idaho, called Iron Creek. The area, known as the Idaho cobalt belt, is one of the most cobalt-rich areas in North America.
The metal is a key component of lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles and electronic devices.
In a prepared statement Otter says Idaho's Cobalt Belt is strategically important so America can reduce reliance on foreign sources of critical minerals.
Clement Leroy "Butch" Otter is an American businessman and politician, who served as the 32nd governor of Idaho, from 2007 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in 2006, and reelected in 2010, and 2014. John Richard Simplot was an American entrepreneur and businessman best known as the founder of the J. R. Simplot Company, a Boise, Idaho based agricultural supplier specializing in potato products. In 2007, he was estimated to be the 89th-richest person in the United States, at $3.6 billion