by Max Wilbert | Jul 10, 2025 | Reflection
Are a series of new lithium-battery projects in Nevada a disaster waiting to happen? This piece was originally published on June 29th, 2025 in This is Reno, northern Nevada’s weekly. Featured image: Fire at the Moss Landing power plant in Monterey, California on...
by Will Falk | Feb 11, 2024 | Reflection
For the past three years, I’ve been involved in a campaign to stop the Lithium Nevada Corporation from destroying a beautiful mountain pass in northern Nevada – known as Thacker Pass in English, or Peehee mu’huh in the local Numic (Paiute) language – to extract...
by Will Falk | Jan 31, 2024 | Reflection
Yesterday, I attended a Tribal Leaders Summit at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) with the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony (RSIC). The event was hosted by UNR’s Office of Indigenous Relations, University Center of Economic Development, and the Nevada Indian...
by Max Wilbert | Jan 15, 2024 | Reflection
When worldviews collide, planet and people pay the price for ethnocentric arrogance Note: today is the 3-year anniversary of Protect Thacker Pass. The term “racism” brings to mind bigots, slurs, and the Ku Klux Klan, or the systematic disenfranchisement of certain...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Nov 7, 2023 | Reflection
At Protect Thacker Pass, we’ve heard from people who think that companies should mine lithium in Imperial Valley (“Lithium Valley”) at the Salton Sea because it would be “better” than mining lithium at Thacker Pass. To be clear up front: Protect Thacker Pass opposes...
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...
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