Hard as a Rock

Hard as a Rock

by | Dec 4, 2022 | Reflection

Hard as a Rock I did not know who to beuntil I took the weightof a place on my shoulders. I wasn’t a camel,but I bowed downto take mountains upon mountains,eagles, eggs, and nests,streams, cutthroat trout,sagebrush and sage grouse,jack rabbits, rattle snakes,and shy...
The Great Washing

The Great Washing

by | Dec 1, 2022 | Reflection

Fossil fuel companies learned a long time ago tactics to reframe what they do to the communities and ecosystems their projects impact. Since 1992—the year of the first United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—these companies have perfected greenwashing...
Not In My Back Yard

Not In My Back Yard

by | 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...
Emissions from a “green” mine

Emissions from a “green” mine

by | 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...
Climate Profiteers Are the New War Profiteers

Climate Profiteers Are the New War Profiteers

by | 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...