Protect Thacker Pass
We are a group of people who are resisting the Thacker Pass lithium mining project.
We believe this land should be protected forever.
Featured Interview: Myron Smart and Will Falk on First Voices Indigenous Radio
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Will Thacker Pass, At Last, Be Still?
On a late April morning in Thacker Pass, where some Paiute ancestors have been buried and some massacred, where some people want to dig out the dead to dig out lithium, I woke to a strange, wet snow that fell overnight a day before temperatures in the 70s were...
A Little Math
It is helpful sometimes to do a little math to understand the scale of what's required to sustain car culture. A Tesla 70kWh car battery requires about 63kg / 138 pounds of lithium carbonate (Li2CO3). Tesla would like to produce 20 million cars per year by 2030. 20...
Who decides it’s a good idea to blow up mountains?
Got a good question on the blog today that I think is worth highlighting here. Mike asks: Who makes the decision of whether a natural landscape gets destroyed so a mine…lithium or otherwise…can be built? Is it the Nevada state legislature? Congress? Dept. or...
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