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Lithium Mining for Electric Vehicles Shouldn't Trample Indigenous Rights


Decolonize the Lithium Boom
Rhetoric about American energy independence has long been used to trample Indigenous rights. The new era of renewables should be different.
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Last week,
The
New York Timesreported on the upcoming opening of what will be America’s second functional lithium mine a signal of the nation’s official entrance into the current lithium boom, which is being driven by the worldwide transition to electric vehicles. Summarizing the fight over the open-pit mine that mining corporation Lithium Americas has proposed for a site in Nevada, the
Times noted opposition from “members of a Native American tribe, ranchers and environmental groups.” The tribal nation is the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribes, whose tribal government leader, Maxine Redstar, told the ....

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The Lithium Gold Rush: Inside the Race to Power Electric Vehicles - Governors' Wind Energy Coalition


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The Lithium Gold Rush: Inside the Race to Power Electric Vehicles
Source: By Ivan Penn and Eric Lipton, photographs by Gabriella Angotti-Jones, New York Times • Posted: Sunday, May 9, 2021
A race is on to produce lithium in the United States, but competing projects are taking very different approaches to extracting the vital raw material. Some might not be very green.
The Salton Sea is one of numerous new mining proposals in a global gold rush to find new sources of metals and minerals needed for electric cars and renewable energy.
Atop a long-dormant volcano in northern Nevada, workers are preparing to start blasting and digging out a giant pit that will serve as the first new large-scale lithium mine in the United States in more than a decade a new domestic supply of an essential ingredient in electric car batteries and renewable energy. ....

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