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Conservationists, energy producers clash over Nevada 'clean energy' lithium mine Reno-Gazette-Journal 2/2/2021 Amy Alonzo, Reno Gazette Journal © Courtesy Protect Thacker Pass Will Falk and Max Wilbert are camped at Thacker Pass to protest development of an open-pit lithium mine at the site. With the nation’s only operational lithium mine and a second, large-scale production set for spring construction, Nevada is at the forefront of the push toward green energy production. However, the Thacker Pass project has garnered seemingly unlikely critics as some conservationis...

Heroes to inspire Northern Nevada in 2021 | Sheila Leslie Reno-Gazette-Journal 12/24/2020 This opinion column was submitted by RGJ columnist Sheila Leslie, who served in the Nevada Legislature from 1998 to 2012. Much of 2020 has been grim and depressing, but these waning days bring glimmers of hope in the form of vaccines and a new national leader who will appoint government officials more interested in serving us than themselves. We can certainly celebrate having made it through these last four years even though our democracy is limping along, with far too many still blindly following a d...

Listen to Part 1 of this story. Some estimate the lithium-ion battery market will be worth more than $100 billion by 2027. Much of that growth can be attributed to the meteoric rise of electric vehicles, thanks in large part to Tesla. And that makes lithium – specifically lithium carbonate, the industrial chemical made from lithium to make batteries – very valuable. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the average U.S. price was $13,000 per metric ton last year. And there are tons of lithium – millions of tons – in Nevada. “We're developing one of the world's largest lithium ...

Listen to Part 1 of this story. Some estimate the lithium-ion battery market will be worth more than $100 billion by 2027. Much of that growth can be attributed to the meteoric rise of electric vehicles, thanks in large part to Tesla. And that makes lithium – specifically lithium carbonate, the industrial chemical made from lithium to make batteries – very valuable. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the average U.S. price was $13,000 per metric ton last year. And there are tons of lithium – millions of tons – in Nevada. “We’re developing one of the world’s largest lithium...