Construction crews are getting to work on a lithium processing plant here at an open pit mine in northern Nevada that mine owners say will — finally — soon produce vital material for electric vehicle batteries, a key part of the Biden administration climate change agenda.
, recently started work on the processing plant that is the first step in a contested $2.3 billion, 40-year mining program.
The mine holds an estimated 16.1 million metric tons of what the company is calling “made-in-America” lithium destined for use in electric vehicle batteries, at a time when U.S. producers are heavily dependent on foreign sources of production, including China’s Communist regime. EVs and power-generating wind turbines and solar panels all need lithium ion batteries to store energy. The drive for green energy is creating what some are calling a global “lithium rush” to find more.
Lithium Nevada contends that Thacker Pass is now 100% U.S.-owned, with no foreign involvement. The impending split in companies will also break the American mining company from having any supply chain link to China, and the project has attracted major U.S. corporate support. The self-described revolutionary political group Deep Green Resistance, and two of its members, Max Wilbert and Will Falk, have been leading the anti-mine legal action. The two activists camped out at the mine site for over a month back in 2021.
Lithium Nevada is building a day-care center on the McDermitt reservation, and an elementary school in the two of Orovada, near the mine site. Mine construction will provide many local jobs, officials say. Mr. Biden has announced he wants 50% of all new vehicle sales to be for electric cars by 2030. Simultaneously, however, theInterior Secretary Deb Haaland said during remarks in Idaho earlier this year that for centuries, tribes were excluded from management of ancestral homelands.is taking intentional action to ensure that tribes have opportunities to weigh in before decisions are made that impact their communities because their voices, perspective and knowledge deserve respect,” she said.
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