by Chelsey Hand | Oct 7, 2020 | Uncategorized |
On September 26th, we traveled with the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada from Reno to the proposed Mt. Hope mine site in Eureka County—stopping to hear the significance of various places along the way, taking time to listen to their stories and remember what...
by Chelsey Hand | Oct 2, 2020 | Uncategorized |
As an organization that works with communities to protect ecosystems and culture from the harmful effects of mining, we would like to stress just how much of climate justice (and possibilities for deep injustice) is connected to how we treat extraction during our...
by John Hadder | Aug 5, 2020 | Nevada Mine News |
Nevada Gold Mines has temporarily suspended plans to expand the Long Canyon Mine (link to letter from Nevada Gold Mines to BLM) in northeast Nevada and says it will conduct hydrologic studies to address concerns that the expansion would dry up nearby springs. The...
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 | Apr 3, 2018 | Nevada Mine News |
GREAT VICTORY FOR OUR FRIENDS IN NEVADA’S COMSTOCK FIGHTING RESIDENTIAL MINING IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD: The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that personal devices, such as cell phones or data stored on a server, used by public officials are subject to disclosure...
by Susan Juetten | Dec 29, 2017 | Nevada Mine News |
By John Hadder: GBRW and allies toured the Cortez Joint Venture complex in June 2017 to get a first hand look at the site of the proposed expansion of what is already one of the largest gold mining complexes in the world, Cortez Joint Venture, in Eureka and Lander...
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...
