Not In My Back Yard

Not In My Back Yard

Protect Thacker Pass is sometimes criticized as a Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY) campaign. This video discusses this criticism. First, Thacker Pass isn’t just greater sage grouses’, golden eagles’, pronghorn antelopes’, and lahontan cutthroat...
Update from Thacker Pass

Update from Thacker Pass

People have asked Protect Thacker Pass to make more videos providing updates about the campaign, so we’re trying to take that to heart. Here’s a short video about how Lithium Nevada’s recent announcement that it signed a benefits agreement with the...
Update from Thacker Pass

Update from Thacker Pass

THACKER PASS UPDATE/REFLECTIONS by Will Falk This past week, we got through most of the remaining court deadlines (at least for the next few weeks) in the two Thacker Pass cases we’re involved in. The first case is the lawsuit we filed on behalf of the Reno-Sparks...
Who is “we”?

Who is “we”?

When people say “we” need cars, “we” need mining, “we” need industries like the automobile manufacturing industry, I want to know who “we” are. The natural world does not need cars. The rivers, lakes, oceans, and...
First, There’s the World

First, There’s the World

First, There’s the World by Will Falk First, there’s wind kissing your breast, chills chapping your lips, and frost on your sleeping bag before dawn. First, there’s salmon swimming upstream, heron stalking blue-gill, and grizzly bear brothers wrestling. First, there’s...