by Elisabeth Robson | May 5, 2022 | Reflection
It’s Not Just Thacker Pass. The Entire Region is on the Chopping Block. by Elisabeth Robson In their June 2021 Fact Sheet about the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine Project, Lithium Americas includes a two page document about biodiversity at Thacker Pass and claim they have...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Mar 14, 2022 | Reflection
In January 2021, shortly after beginning the Protect Thacker Pass campaign with Max Wilbert, Will Falk wrote these words: “Sometime, in the history of civilization, some humans developed a strange and horribly destructive belief that they were justified in...
by Elisabeth Robson | Mar 9, 2022 | Reflection
Published March 8 in the Reno-Gazette Journal. Re: “Thacker Pass mine important for Nevada,” Feb. 22: In his opinion column, Glenn Miller claims that replacing fossil fuel cars with cars that use lithium-ion batteries will “provide a major contribution to...
by Max Wilbert | Mar 7, 2022 | Reflection
Today, I climbed a mountain above Thacker Pass, and found fresh mountain lion tracks. The snow was packed in icy slabs at 7,000 feet, and as I tracked the cat I saw where she had slipped, spread her paws wide, and extended her claws to grip the ice. Cats don’t...
by Max Wilbert | Mar 2, 2022 | Reflection
Over the past 14 months that Will Falk and I have been fighting the Thacker Pass lithium mine, one of the most common questions we’re asked by journalists has been “So if you oppose electric cars, what is your solution?” At first, the question seems...
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