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...
by Max Wilbert | Jan 20, 2023 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
Artwork by Jamie Watson The campaign to stop an open-pit lithium mine began on January 15th, 2021, after the Trump Administration fast-tracked mining on critical wildlife habitat that also happens to be a sacred site. This past Sunday was the two-year anniversary of...
by Max Wilbert | Dec 20, 2022 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
Court hearing nears as Lithium Nevada pushes forward with illegal work on-site Winter is a beautiful time at Thacker Pass. If summer is a dusty sullen torpor, fall brooding and wistful and blooming, spring tumultuous and muddy and headlong, winter is a crystalline...
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