by Will Falk | Apr 4, 2021 | Reflection
Sentinel Rock, a naturally-formed stone tower, stands at Thacker Pass’ eastern entrance. The day before Easter, Max Wilbert and I accompanied Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone tribal members Daranda Hinkey, her father Day, and Eddie Smart to Sentinel Rock. We had...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Apr 2, 2021 | Reflection
How would you know by Paul Feather I am watching the light fade as the last day of March is swallowed behind the hills of Thacker Pass. Sheltered in my car and bundled against rapidly dropping temperatures, I wait for the stars that I traveled two thousand miles to...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Apr 1, 2021 | Reflection
Changing the energy model means doubling the production of rare metals about every 15 years, mostly to satisfy demand for non-ferrous magnets and lithium-ion batteries. “At this rate, over the next 30 years we… will need to mine more mineral ores than humans have...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Mar 31, 2021 | Press
“So many of us in the environmental movement understand taking a mountain top off for coal is bad. Well, taking a mountain apart for lithium is bad, as well.” — Will Falk KTVN interviewed campers at Thacker Pass Blockade. Here is the story that...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Mar 30, 2021 | Art
Raven’s Song 2/21-24/21 by Trinity La Fey not a gentle planet, but a place of profound symbiosis, our home a haven of interconnected holies, ancient ones whose languages diverge and rhyme and converge in the wind, in the magma, in the thrumming meter of each pulse,...
by Will Falk | Mar 29, 2021 | Resistance Updates
Great news! The Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribal Council accepted a petition filed by tribal members today and agreed to withdraw from a Project Engagement Agreement the previous tribal council had signed with Lithium Nevada for the proposed Thacker Pass open...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Mar 28, 2021 | Press, Reflection
By Kamea Chayne, March 25, 2021 Are we okay with living ecosystems and mountaintops being blown up—so long as it’s done for extracting lithium instead of coal? As the largest known lithium reserve in the United States, Thacker Pass, a part of the ancestral lands...
by Will Falk | Mar 27, 2021 | Reflection
Thacker Pass remembers the world we used to live in. She murmurs these memories in the long strides and white haunches of mule deer fleeing the scents of humans over the sage. She sends her reminiscences in sudden March snow squalls on otherwise sunny days. She...
by Will Falk | Mar 26, 2021 | Interview
Thank you to First Voices Indigenous Radio for hosting Myron Smart and Will Falk for this great interview about Thacker Pass. Myron Smart is a descendant of the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe. He was raised in his traditional ways of life in our Native culture....
by Protect Thacker Pass | Mar 26, 2021 | Art
That moment when you realize so called “green technology” isn’t really green. Lithium Americas Corporation claims Thacker Pass Mine will be “green” and that the technology it is built to supply — electric car batteries — is green, too. But, of...
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