Lithium mine at Oregon border would damage ancestral land, critics say
A lithium mine is proposed for an area of desert near the Oregon-Nevada border that includes ancestral lands of several tribes.
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A lithium mine is proposed for an area of desert near the Oregon-Nevada border that includes ancestral lands of several tribes.
A lithium mine is proposed for an area of desert near the Oregon-Nevada border that includes ancestral lands of several tribes.
In 2015, former President Barack Obama said "If we're going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we're going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them." Despite this, Obama's energy policy was called "All of the Above," and
A proposed lithium mine along the Nevada-Oregon border would produce critical materials for electric car batteries along with local jobs, but critics say the damage to the environment, including the ancestral lands of multiple tribes, isn't worth it.
A proposed lithium mine along the Nevada-Oregon border would produce critical materials for electric car batteries along with local jobs, but critics say the damage to the environment, including the ancestral lands of multiple tribes, isn't worth it.