Proving that her “job” as “special envoy for the Shield of Americas” was just a face-saving sham, or maybe that Trump isn’t paying her enough for twiddling her thumbs to cover Bryon’s online cash transfers, Kristi Noem is now moonlighting for a Canadian mining company:
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who after her ouster from President Donald Trump’s Cabinet was handed a spot on a brand new multinational anti-crime initiative, has a new job advising Canadian mining company NovaRed, the firm announced in a press release Tuesday.
The company said Noem will support its “mission of acquiring and advancing critical mineral exploration opportunities through its artificial intelligence-enhanced technology platform” [Jenna Moonin, “Kristi Noem Gets a New Gig,” News of the United States, 2026.06.16].
Noem has no work experience in mining or AI-enhanced technology. She has never run a successful or lasting private-sector venture. Her debaculous 14 months in Homeland Security and anti-Canada snark should make her radioactive to corporate Canada. (Radioactive… the company is branching into uranium exploration.)
Noem is the latest of five new additions to the NovaRed advisory board in the last few weeks. Since early May, NovaRed has added to its board an advisor to the royal family of the United Arab Emirates; a DC lawyer focused on environmental, social, and governance issues, a Florida heavy-equipment magnate; and a U.S. Army intelligence veteran and consultant. Amidst résumés like those, Noem looks like window dressing.
NovaRed changed its name from Rumble Resources in February to avoid confusion with an Australian mining company of the same name. NovaRed née Rumble Resources was incorporated in British Columbia in 2017.
Disadvantaged populations have been subject to mining-driven environmental racism for hundreds if not thousands of years and in 2014 Nobel Prize winner, Professor Paul Krugman warned Americans that Earth hating Republicans want to make America one big strip mine.