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How much land must be sacrificed to feed our addiction to energy?

How much land must be sacrificed to feed our addiction to energy?

by Max Wilbert | Sep 30, 2023 | HiTech Minerals, Project updates, Reflection

Mountaintop removal for lithium to go into electric vehicle batteries is ecocide, just like mountaintop removal for coal mining is. Earlier this week, I visited the site of yet another planned open pit lithium mine that is threatening the Great Basin — this time, in...
“The purpose of regulatory permitting is to organize and legalize the destruction of the planet.”

“The purpose of regulatory permitting is to organize and legalize the destruction of the planet.”

by Max Wilbert | Sep 17, 2023 | HiTech Minerals, Project updates

As readers are aware, I’ve been embroiled in fighting the Thacker Pass lithium mine for the last three years. What you may not know is that the entire region around Thacker Pass, which is known as the McDermitt Caldera, was formed by the Yellowstone Hot Spot 16...

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