by Will Falk | Jan 20, 2021 | Art, Reflection
The sun rose on this Inauguration Day over a chilly Thacker Pass. Frost colored the sagebrush silver. The ground was frozen hard. And, I woke to the sound of coyotes cackling at the sardonic irony in the celebrations of Joe Biden’s ascendancy to leadership of the...
by Will Falk | Jan 18, 2021 | Art, Reflection
On Friday, January 15, the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) determined that Lithium Americas Corp.’s proposed Thacker Pass lithium mine in Nevada would comply with the National Environmental Policy Act and issued the necessary Record of Decision. This...
by Rebecca Wildbear | Jan 18, 2021 | Art, Reflection
Flowering sage covers the desert. A whole universe exists in these shrubs. Sparrows, meadowlarks, and spotted towhees nest. At dawn, their soft chitter grows loud. Like so many creatures who live in the Great Basin, they need large areas of intact habitat to survive....
by Max Wilbert | Dec 7, 2020 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
Reporting from #ThackerPass #Nevada – site of a massive proposed lithium mine. Nevada government and federal agencies have fast-tracked the sacrifice of this mountainside in favor of a $1.3 billion dollar mine that could produce tens of billions in profits....
by Max Wilbert | Oct 15, 2020 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
What killed 14,000 critically endangered buckwheat plants at the site of a proposed lithium mine to supply critical minerals for the so-called “green” electric vehicle industry? This video reports from Rhyolite Ridge in western Nevada, traditional...
by Max Wilbert | Oct 14, 2020 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
This video comes from the top of a ridge directly to the east of the proposed Rhyolite Ridge open-pit lithium mine in Southern Nevada. After arriving by moonlight the night before, I scrambled up this rocky ridge in the dawn light to get an overview of the landscape....
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