by Protect Thacker Pass | May 6, 2021 | Press
By Ivan Penn and Eric Lipton Photographs by Gabriella Angotti-Jones for The New York Times May 6, 2021 Atop a long-dormant volcano in northern Nevada, workers are preparing to start blasting and digging out a giant pit that will serve as the first new large-scale...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Apr 27, 2021 | Reflection
Thacker Pass from a viewpoint in the Montana Mountains to the North. Nearly 6,000 acres of the old-growth sagebrush habitat shown in this image would be destroyed by the proposed project, and since lithium is found throughout this area, future expansions are likely to...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Apr 25, 2021 | Art, Reflection
It is helpful sometimes to do a little math to understand the scale of what’s required to sustain car culture. A Tesla 70kWh car battery requires about 63kg / 138 pounds of lithium carbonate (Li2CO3). Tesla would like to produce 20 million cars per year by 2030....
by Protect Thacker Pass | Apr 24, 2021 | Art, Reflection
Got a good question on the blog today that I think is worth highlighting here. Mike asks: Who makes the decision of whether a natural landscape gets destroyed so a mine…lithium or otherwise…can be built? Is it the Nevada state legislature? Congress? Dept. or...
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