by Max Wilbert | Jan 15, 2024 | Reflection
When worldviews collide, planet and people pay the price for ethnocentric arrogance Note: today is the 3-year anniversary of Protect Thacker Pass. The term “racism” brings to mind bigots, slurs, and the Ku Klux Klan, or the systematic disenfranchisement of certain...
by Max Wilbert | Sep 30, 2023 | HiTech Minerals, Project updates, Reflection
Mountaintop removal for lithium to go into electric vehicle batteries is ecocide, just like mountaintop removal for coal mining is. Earlier this week, I visited the site of yet another planned open pit lithium mine that is threatening the Great Basin — this time, in...
by Max Wilbert | Sep 17, 2023 | HiTech Minerals, Project updates
As readers are aware, I’ve been embroiled in fighting the Thacker Pass lithium mine for the last three years. What you may not know is that the entire region around Thacker Pass, which is known as the McDermitt Caldera, was formed by the Yellowstone Hot Spot 16...
by Max Wilbert | Aug 12, 2023 | Reflection
This article was published in the Nevada Independent on August 12, 2023 Recent coverage of the Thacker Pass lithium mine in the Nevada press overlooks the controversy around this project. Lithium Americas Corporation (LAC) has faced four lawsuits, three protest camps,...
by Max Wilbert | Apr 22, 2023 | Reflection
A criminal slips a police officer a handful of bills and walks free. A businessman buys a politician with a briefcase full of cash. We often think of bribery and corruption in these blatant terms, and as something that happens in poor countries, elsewhere. But...
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