Protect Thacker Pass
We are an independent, grassroots collective of people resisting the Thacker Pass lithium mine. We work in solidarity with regional indigenous people. Thacker Pass, or Peehee mm’huh, is sacred land to the Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone, and critical wildlife habitat. We invite all people with good hearts to help us stop the greenwashing!
JOIN US TO DEFEND THIS LAND!
The Long Shadow of the Tar Sands: Lithium Mining and Tar Sands Sulfur
It’s often said that solar panels, wind turbines, and the lithium-ion batteries that store their energy and power electric vehicles will save the planet. What most people don’t know is that producing lithium has direct links to the Alberta Tar Sands (also known as the...
Lithium: Mining Mountains of Water
Photograph of Thacker Pond by Max Wilbert Lithium: Mining Mountains of Water by Rebecca Wildbear Nearly a third of the world lacks safe drinking water, though I have rarely been without. In a red rock canyon in Utah, backpacking on a week-long wilderness training in...
Where We Live
Photograph of wild onion by Max Wilbert By Trinity La Fey, March 25, 2021 When, concerned for our safety, my husband pressured me to either censor or disguise myself online, I replied, “You keep talking at me like I don’t know what kind of world this is and I am...
Photos from Thacker Pass
