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Lithium bust continues: "The price of lithium has plummeted roughly 80% from its 2022 peak”. This describes mining boom bust effects on communities & damage to land & water. Yet Trump threw even more $ to keep Thacker Pass from busting - a bad deal.
restofworld.org/2025/lithium…
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Brand NEW bulldozing prep for a mining explo drill pad up in the Montana Mountains < 1/2 mi from bellwether Sage-grouse lek. Hideous Thacker Pass lithium mine is to the south & way below. 🧵
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Sierra Club preached Green Colonialism on public lands while tiptoeing around climate disaster meat. When they sent out pix of a tangle of transmission lines & yellow skies, urging support for "green" streamlining- you could tell they were a lost cause. insideclimatenews.org/news/1…
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And so it begins. The survey stakes go up for Greedlink West Transmission Project, a needless giant remote high-voltage line to carry natural gas generation to AI and data centers in Nevada. Intact wild basins like the Amargosa will be carved up. A prairie falcon flew over.
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Hearing on Doug Burgum's nomination to be @Interior Secretary starts now: c-span.org/event/senate-comm…
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Breaking: @blmnv announced @Interior would grant a mineral withdrawal around Amargosa Valley/Ash Meadows — something long fought for as lithium exploration potentially threatens the water table in one of the driest regions of the country @reviewjournal: reviewjournal.com/local/loca…
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Surge Battery Metal company has a video hyping their proposed Lithium project south of Jackpot. They include a charming image of what's portrayed as being Thacker Pass. And salivate over the landscape they seek to destroy.
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The Mojave desert tortoise says: “ So I am supposed to sacrifice 100,000 acres of my habitat for renewable energy development and head towards extinction so you humans can hold a Formula 1 race in Las Vegas?” #NotHelpingClimate
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Will you help us raise awareness about this multi-billion-dollar groundwater grab? FERC regulators are beginning an important environmental review and we need the public's help. Step Up for Steptoe Valley stepupforsteptoe.com/take-ac…
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Copper Rays Solar Project public meeting on October 22, 2024, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time PDT at the Pahrump Nugget Hotel and Casino, 681 NV-160, Pahrump, Nev., 89048.
· Virtual meeting on October 24, 2024, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. (PDT).
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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I’m reading the EIS for Esmeralda 7 #Solar Projects, Nevada #publiclands which proposes to remove 48,351 acres of vegetation by grading and driving-crushing-destroying native shrubs, grasses, forbs. 👀How in the F is this green and climate friendly!? Unthinkable 🌱🌱🌾🌾🌻💐
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Study shows Ormat industrial geothermal plants harmful footprint in Nevada. Visual & noise intrusion have a big impact on Sage-grouse. And who knows what's happening to springs in the region impacted by drilling (& potentially fracking) yet BLM just leased 1/4 million acres more
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OPINION by @bitterwaterblue: BLM’s solar plan puts landscapes at risk
“These projects ... eliminate wildlife habitat, alter hydrology and erosion, and fragment wildlife connectivity corridors. But there are ways to minimize these disturbances.”
thenevadaindependent.com/art…
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A Balanced Approach to the Western Solar Plan update would leave all the #publiclands wildlands in the Amargosa Valley, Nevada, safe from utilityscale #solar development and put the PV panels on rooftops, parking lots, old mine sites, and brownfields. No more! Rain in Amargosa
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Eastern Nevada & Utah hit with another Haaland Interior BLM Green Apocalypse project Cross-Tie Transmission. There are so many slicing & dicing habitat & dooming surroundings to Big Solar/Wind Sprawl it's hard to keep track. Note Spring valley & Great Basin
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📣 ANNOUNCEMENT! We are hosting a virtual town hall 9/18 at 6pm to discuss the BLM solar plan. Please SIGN OUR PETITION to tell the BLM: support a balanced approach to solar energy in the Amargosa River Watershed. Links to petition and meeting in bio
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1/📢 NEW ARTICLE!
I am so pleased to have a new🔓article @Peasant_Journal w/ @BenjaminSovaco1 & @bojnovak!
As @BasinRange & @DustinMulvaney also show, solar development has serious negative impacts on California's deserts!
➡️doi.org/10.1080/03066150.202…
@IGS_BU #energy #degrowth
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Today, @BLMNational approved a massive transmission line project which threatens the Great Basin's public lands with destructive energy development.
@BasinRange @wildadvocate #BLM #Nevada
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More BLM Solar FEIS sprawl. BLM plots 4 Big Solar touching Sheldon Antelope Refuge in a very, very dry region - where CBD just filed a listing petition for the Alvord Chub. The fish is already facing a flow wrecking Geothermal scheme, too. White block is Sheldon @CenterForBioDiv
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The updated Western Solar Plan will harm huge areas of habitat for these guys. They are hazed out of their burrows to make way for industrial utilityscale #solar projects. Just No! Rooftop and parking lot solar are the better alternatives to solar on wildlands
