A massive lithium mine under construction in northern Nevada is at the center of a dispute over Pres. Biden’s clean energy agenda.
Gary McKinney, a spokesman for People of Red Mountain and a member of the nearby Duck Valley Shoshone-Paiute Tribe, walks near Sentinel Rock on April 25, 2023, outside of Orovada, Nev. A huge lithium mine under construction in northern Nevada is at the center of a dispute over President Joe Biden's clean energy agenda. McKinney said the project will cause irreparable damage.
“Lithium mines and this whole push for renewable energy — the agenda of the Green New Deal — is what I like to call green colonialism,″ Hinkey said. “It’s going to directly affect my people, my culture, my religion, my tradition.” The project was approved in the waning days of the Trump administration but is central to Biden’s goal for half of all new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2030. Lithium batteries are also used to store wind and solar power.
Hinkey said she is especially disappointed because she voted for Biden and expected his administration to slow down the project that was fast-tracked under President. She and other tribal members “feel very lost, very shoved underneath the carpet,″ Hinkey said. The October 2022 agreement “is a testament to our company’s commitment to go beyond our regulatory requirements and to form constructive relationships with the communities closest to our projects,″ Lithium Americas President and CEO Jonathan Evans said in a statement.has pledged $650 million to help develop Thacker Pass, which holds enough lithium to build 1 million electric vehicles annually.
In its 2021 decision approving the project, the agency said it wrote letters in late 2019 to at least three tribes — including Fort McDermitt — inviting comments. Two online meetings were conducted in August 2020, but no objections were raised by the end of an environmental review in December 2020, the agency said.
Asked about those claims, Stone-Manning replied: “I regret if people feel that way. I can’t control how people feel.″
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