by Protect Thacker Pass | Dec 3, 2022 | Press Releases
Nevada has a long history as a mining state, but the impacts of extracting gold, silver, and other metals have not been equal for everyone. A new historical exhibit at the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony highlights the impacts of mining on Native people. “What has brought...
by Elisabeth Robson | Dec 1, 2022 | Reflection
Fossil fuel companies learned a long time ago tactics to reframe what they do to the communities and ecosystems their projects impact. Since 1992—the year of the first United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—these companies have perfected greenwashing...
by Elisabeth Robson | Nov 9, 2022 | Reflection
“Climate emergency”. We hear these words regularly these days, whenever there is a wild fire, a flood, or an extreme weather event of any kind. We hear these words at the annual Conference of Parties (COPs) on climate change held by the United Nations...
by Will Falk | Nov 1, 2022 | Reflection
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...
by Will Falk | Oct 26, 2022 | Project updates
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...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Oct 18, 2022 | Reflection
Recently, we got a comment about the Thacker Pass Mine Project: “I don’t believe that fossil fuels are required to extract these minerals or to process them and make the batteries from them.” This person clearly has not investigated the project at...
by Max Wilbert | Oct 12, 2022 | Reflection
At Thacker Pass, “National Security” is Being Abused to Cover Up Atrocities I was a kid when the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan began, but I could see what was happening. Corporations were cashing in however possible: selling beans, bullets and band-aids, signing...
by Max Wilbert | Sep 23, 2022 | Resistance Updates
This land right behind me is Thacker Pass, northern Nevada, not far south of the Oregon border. And this place is under threat right now because there’s lithium under the ground here. Lithium’s being called the new white gold, the new energy resource,...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Sep 20, 2022 | Press Releases
Photo by Bucky Harjo, RSIC Public Relations Photographer FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Lithium Nevada Begins “Bulk Sampling” in What Attorney Calls “A Dirty Trick” Tribes: “BLM and Lithium Nevada Are Destroying Our Cultural Heritage” OROVADA, NEVADA (September 20,...
by Max Wilbert | Sep 18, 2022 | Resistance Updates
On September 2nd, a series of suspicious comments were posted on Protect Thacker Pass websites and social media platforms. The comments targeted Protect Thacker Pass and specific people including Will Falk, co-founder of Protect Thacker Pass and attorney representing...
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