The Wildlife of Thacker Pass

The Wildlife of Thacker Pass

Canada geese Cottontail rabbit Ground squirrel Ferruginous hawk Coyote tracks Kangaroo rat tracks California quail Bobcat tracks Sage Grouse Sage Grouse Red Tailed Hawk on the nest Rodent warming after a cold night Unknown Sage Grouse Tracks Dark Eyed Junco...
A car is not just a car

A car is not just a car

One of the questions we frequently get at PTP about lithium and EVs is: Will recycling help? That is, can we recycle the various components of batteries and develop a “circular economy” so that we don’t ever need mines like Thacker Pass to mine new...
Stop Calling Green Energy ‘Clean’

Stop Calling Green Energy ‘Clean’

Stop Calling Green Energy ‘Clean’ by Cayte Bosler, June 9, 2021 for Columbia Climate School I wake at a destined deathbed. Unheeded truths hang like a pall in the air. At first I smile, cradled in a dusty tent, surrounded by the wintering grounds that belong to the...
Construction date moved back

Construction date moved back

As reported in the Sierra Nevada Ally and by Great Basin Resource Watch: Today, the Bureau of Land Management and Lithium Nevada Corporation agreed on a court-enforceable stipulation. In the stipulation, the parties agreed that “Neither Lithium Nevada nor Federal...
America Still Colonizing at Thacker Pass

America Still Colonizing at Thacker Pass

America Still Colonizing at Thacker Pass by Justin McAffee for The Desert Guardian June 2, 2021 Nearly 2 billion acres of land have been stolen from Native Americans within the territorial boundaries of the United States alone. The genocide, massacres, Trail of Tears,...
The Rush For White Gold

The Rush For White Gold

The Rush For White Gold by Austin Price, for Earth Island Journal SIXTEEN MILLION YEARS AGO, a volcano erupted over the Yellowstone hotspot near the present-day border of Oregon and Nevada. The blast expelled 1,000 cubic kilometers of rhyolite lava as the land...