by Protect Thacker Pass | Dec 27, 2022 | Press Releases
December 27, 2022 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE As Court Ruling Nears, Thacker Pass Sacred Sites Are Already Being Damaged Tribal Chairman: “It’s Our Responsibility to Protect Sacred Sites” Contact:Will Falk, Attorney for the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony and Summit Lake Paiute...
by Max Wilbert | Dec 20, 2022 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
Court hearing nears as Lithium Nevada pushes forward with illegal work on-site Winter is a beautiful time at Thacker Pass. If summer is a dusty sullen torpor, fall brooding and wistful and blooming, spring tumultuous and muddy and headlong, winter is a crystalline...
by Max Wilbert | Dec 14, 2022 | Reflection
In short: to protect themselves from accountability for their crimes. Lithium Americas Corporation is splitting into two companies: Lithium Americas (which will own Thacker Pass and other North American projects) and Lithium International (which will own...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Dec 5, 2022 | Related Media
The COP27 climate summit has pitted the human rights of Indigenous peoples against rich nations’ energy needs. By Theodora Dryer , Marlene Brito-Millán , Amrah Salomón , TRUTHOUTPublished November 21, 2022 on Truthout.org The Global North’s scramble for energy-secure...
by Will Falk | 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...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Dec 3, 2022 | Press Releases
Nevada has a long history as a mining state, but the impacts of extracting gold, silver, and other metals have not been equal for everyone. A new historical exhibit at the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony highlights the impacts of mining on Native people. “What has brought...
by Protect Thacker Pass | 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...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Nov 9, 2022 | Reflection
“Climate emergency”. We hear these words regularly these days, whenever there is a wild fire, a flood, or an extreme weather event of any kind. We hear these words at the annual Conference of Parties (COPs) on climate change held by the United Nations...
by Will Falk | 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...
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