by Max Wilbert | Apr 8, 2021 | Reflection
It’s often said that solar panels, wind turbines, and the lithium-ion batteries that store their energy and power electric vehicles will save the planet. What most people don’t know is that producing lithium has direct links to the Alberta Tar Sands (also known as the...
by Max Wilbert | Apr 6, 2021 | Resistance Updates
Thacker Pass, or Peehee mm huh, is threatened for an open pit lithium mine. In this video, myself and Will Falk of Protect Thacker Pass, and Daranda Hinkey of the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone Tribe, speak from the top of Sentinel Rock at the eastern side of Thacker...
by Max Wilbert | Apr 4, 2021 | Reflection
It is dawn at Thacker Pass. The sun rises over the Santa Rosa Mountains, and light spears through the blue-green leaves of the sagebrush that spreads out in all directions. A herd of mule deer orbits our camp. Each evening, they meander westwards along the...
by Max Wilbert | Mar 24, 2021 | Resistance Updates
A few weeks ago, I met with a native family from the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone tribe. They were standing with me outside a public meeting in Orovada, Nevada, protesting a proposed open-pit lithium mine which Lithium Americas Corporation (and its local subsidiary,...
by Max Wilbert | Mar 19, 2021 | Resistance Updates
Opposition to the greenwashed Lithium Americas / Lithium Nevada open-pit mine project is growing stronger with each passing day. Protests have taken place on the Fort McDermitt reservation, at the Lithium Nevada office in Winnemucca, and at the Bureau of Land...
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