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@Background Pony #BE79
btw, as far as the article is concerned it does not mention any of the mines being blocked. Maybe it’s not mentioned elsewhere, but certainly not this article. Another thing is that this isn’t just for enviremental concerns, at least in the examples in the aforementioned article, but also concerns indigenous people. This particular quote is telling.
btw, as far as the article is concerned it does not mention any of the mines being blocked. Maybe it’s not mentioned elsewhere, but certainly not this article. Another thing is that this isn’t just for enviremental concerns, at least in the examples in the aforementioned article, but also concerns indigenous people. This particular quote is telling.
During the visit, Daranda Hinkey, a Paiute-Shoshone tribal member, said she had come to see “green energy” as a form of “cultural genocide.” Taking stock of how many U.S. lithium reserves overlap with lands close to Native communities, she asked, “Are we in the sacrifice zone?”Hinkey acknowledged the mine could create jobs and greater civil investments in her community. But those contributions are “so temporary,” she said.“We live in a high desert ecosystem,” she said. “We’re already going through wildfires. We’re already going through droughts in early, early summer. If we don’t have water, then that affects our everyday life, but that also affects our cultural side.”
There’s also the fact the biden administration are updating laws regarding mines, laws that haven’t been so for 151 years. https://apnews.com/article/biden-mining-law-minerals-pay-royalties-lithium-gold-155556bba3eaa4c0fdb7b37e76150eee
