by Protect Thacker Pass | 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 | Oct 7, 2022 | Reflection
A few months ago, Rachel Donald had me on her show, “Planet:Critical.” You can watch that interview here: • Bright Green Lies | Max Wilbert After our discussion, Rachel released a followup video called “The Case for Technorealism”: • The Case...
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...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Sep 12, 2022 | Resistance Updates
Image by Deep Green Arts As we recently reported, the Bureau of Land Management has finally acknowledged that the September 12, 1865 massacre did take place in Thacker Pass. But the BLM hasn’t gained a conscience. Now, they are trying to wipe their hands clean...
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