by Elisabeth Robson | Sep 23, 2021 | Press, Resistance Updates
On September 21, 2021 Yes to Life, No to Mining Network’s Lithium Working Group presented the their first Communique—On the Frontlines of Lithium Mining—in a press conference covering: Why expanding mining will not solve the climate crisis. How lithium...
by Elisabeth Robson | Aug 5, 2021 | Press, Reflection
The history of the industrial era is one of colonization and extraction. This continues today, as we who work to protect the land know well. The film In the name of lithium is a documentary about the struggle of Argentine indigenous communities to prevent their salt...
by Elisabeth Robson | Jul 23, 2021 | Press
By Daniel Rothberg for The Nevada Independent July 22, 2021 In front of a federal courthouse in downtown Reno on Wednesday morning, more than 50 people from Indigenous groups across the state gathered in a peaceful protest against the proposed Thacker Pass lithium...
by Elisabeth Robson | Jul 22, 2021 | Press
by Evan Halper for the LA Times July 21, 2021 A mining permit pushed through in the last week of the Trump administration allows the Canadian company Lithium Americas Corp. to produce enough lithium carbonate annually to supply nearly a million electric car batteries....
by Elisabeth Robson | Jun 12, 2021 | Press
Thacker Pass gets a mention in this article in the Phoenix New Times about another proposed lithium mine in Arizona, one that would use the same sulfuric acid leaching process that the Thacker Pass lithium mine would use. It’s also yet another mine threatening...
by Elisabeth Robson | Jun 9, 2021 | Press
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...
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