by Chelsey Hand | Jul 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
This trip was incredibly valuable and gave me so much more perspective on mining justice, especially in the way it has made me re-examine and internalize what it means to join the fight for social-environmental justice around extraction. Being able to...
by Chelsey Hand | Apr 13, 2020 | Nevada Mine News, Uncategorized
Below are links to four articles that were published (by The Nevada Independent, Associated Press, The Sierra Nevada Ally, and the Elko Daily) regarding the water protests that GBRW and ally groups filed pertaining to the proposed Long Canyon Mine Expansion. They were...
by Chelsey Hand | Feb 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, we traveled to Orovada for one of the Thacker Pass Scoping Meetings. The room was filled with people holding various roles from Lithium Nevada, their contracted company, the BLM, and about 25 members of the public. As Lithium Nevada gave a presentation...
by John Hadder | Dec 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project Threatens to Bring Tiehms Buckwheat to Extinction The Current Status An Australian corporation, Ioneer, has begun exploration activities on Rhyolite Ridge, located in Esmeralda County (NV) within the Silver Peak...
by Susan Juetten | Dec 29, 2017 | Legislation, Uncategorized
One win this session changed water law to require better accounting for consumption of water, including by the mining industry. We didn’t get all we wanted; the bill sponsored on our behalf, SB231, ran into mining industry opposition; lobbyists told legislators that...
