#Paiute #Shoshone Court Date is Friday for Defending Massacre Site from #LithiumAmericas

May 31, 2023

Ox Sam Camp, #ThackerPass, Nevada: "I would like to ask all of you out there to kindly share this for my fellow sister warrior descendant, she stands here for her lineage through her great great grandfather Ox Sam whose family was massacred here at Thacker Pass also known as Peehee Muhu which is translated as Rotten Moon.
Due to recent events of her being served a TPO that is restricting her from accessing her Rights to her unmarked ancestral burial grounds and sacred site at Sentinel Rock by #LithiumAmerica Corporation. She now has to go back and forth to #Winnemucca 150 miles round trip where the court is being held and conducted which adds up a lot of miles and she is still looking for a Nevada attorney preferably pro indigenous rights for her legal issues filed by Lithium America a Canadian Based Corporation. So we're kindly asking you all to share these links to try and get her all the help we can do for her and to help her along as we continue to shed light and love on the current happenings at PeeHee Muhu Ox Sam Camp. (Newe Momokonee Nokutun)
Thank you for Very Much.

"The legal hearing for Dorece, Chuck, Paul, and Max is now scheduled for Friday (June 2nd) at 1:30 pm in Winnemucca. We're asking the court for an extension but it may not be granted. So that's our timeline for now. I'm not sure if supporters will be allowed in the courtroom, but if anyone wants to come out and support us feel free (although I wouldn't want to take people away from camp). For now, that's our deadline for legal representation. The situation is evolving. Thank you."

#SaveThackerPass #CulturalGenocide #IndigenousNews #EnvironmentalRacism #OxSamCamp #Frontline #Biodiversity #Solidarity #Help #Nevada #Environment #Climate #DirectAction #ProtectPeeheeMuhuh #LithiumNevada #LithiumMining #OpenPitMining #OpenPit #Mining

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https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/05/paiute-shoshone-court-date-is-friday.html

LD 1508: An Act to Ensure a Strategic Approach to #Maine's Energy Transition by Imposing a Moratorium on #Lithium #Mining

Public Hearing and Work Session:
Apr 13, 2023, 1:01pm, Cross Building, Room 216, State House, Augusta, Maine

https://legislature.maine.gov/bills/display_ps.asp?paper=HP0963&snum=131&PID=0

#LithiumMining #OpenPit #MiningMoratorium

#LithiumAmericas and Biden Violating Sacred Ground at #Pauite Massacre Site on #ThackerPass

by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, March 17, 2023

Hazardous chemicals, around-the-clock trucks, hundreds of them carrying toxic materials, and a rail train will destroy this pristine and sacred region

NativeAmericans #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #IndigenousNews #Mining #OpenPit

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/03/lithium-americas-and-biden-violating.html

@DoomsdaysCW ⬆️

You’d think karma would be more environmentally friendly! 👉 https://www.rawstory.com/northern-idaho-college/

#OpenPit #BoiseRiver

What Is #OpenPit #Mining

Definition, Examples, and Environmental Impact

By Rebecca Coffey, Updated July 26, 2022

"Environmentally, open-pit mining is devastating. It consumes enormous amounts of water, heavily pollutes water and air, disfigures landscapes, and permanently destroys habitat. Even after pits are exhausted and sites are rehabilitated, the pit area retains elevated risks of #erosion and #flooding.

"Heavy clouds of dust form during mining operations. Blasting alone is an enormous piece of the problem. In 2018 an international team of scientists publishing in E3S Web of Conferences reported that about 10 billion cubic meters of rock are exploded annually. The resulting clouds transport about 2.0-2.5 million tons of dust.

"The dust from drilling and blasting at some mines is highly radioactive. This is the case, for example, at uranium mines. The problem is not limited to well-known radioactive ores, however, as all ores are #radioactive to some degree.

"Even when it’s not radioactive, dust containing heavy metals can be very dangerous. When it is breathed it can create a variety of respiratory problems including black lung disease.

"The explosives used in blasting release fumes rich in #smog- and #AcidRain-producing gases like highly toxic nitrogen dioxide. As far back as 1973 Soviet scientists reported that the smog can form in the pits themselves.In 2019 Chinese scientists reported that a mine-produced hydrochloric acid mist was caustic enough to corrode concrete.

" One of the most significant problems in open pit mining is also endemic to underground mining. The mineral pyrite is often found in coal mines. It contains sulfur. When pyrite is exposed and sulfur reacts with air and water, it forms an acid. Acidic water as well as any rock-bound heavy metals that the acid has dissolved leach out of the mines and into nearby rivers, lakes, and streams, killing aquatic life and making the water unusable.

"A 2021 study in the peer-reviewed journal Ecological Applications showed the elimination of 40% of the marine animal species in 93 bodies of water downstream from an area of Appalachia that has multiple open-pit mines. Especially problematic in relation to coal mining, acid mine drainage can continue for hundreds of years, even long after the mine has closed."

#OpenPit #Environment #Pollution #WaterIsLife #LithiumNevada #LithiumAmericas #Lithium #ThackerPass #WaterIsLife

Read more:
https://www.treehugger.com/what-is-open-pit-mining-definition-and-environmental-impact-5219892

An open-pit mine planned upstream of #Boise

Canadian mining company to make another run at exploration for the potential and controversial CuMo Project open-pit mine

by John Robison, March 8, 2023

"In the highlands between Charlotte Gulch and Grimes Creek, Canadian-based mining company CuMoCo is hoping to gain approval from the Forest Service to construct up to 13.3 miles of new roads and drill 259 holes up to 3,000 feet deep for a mining exploration project. This project, called the CuMo Mine Exploration Project, is hoping to find sufficient copper (Cu) and molybdenum (Mo) to justify one of the largest open-pit mines in the world – all within the precious #BoiseRiver watershed.

"In 2011, Canadian mining company Mosquito Gold proposed an extensive drilling plan in the mountainous area in the headwaters of #GrimesCreek. Local and downstream communities were alarmed as mining is the number one #polluter in the United States and even mining exploration can have adverse impacts. The Boise River is a precious resource – it provides more than 25% of Boise’s #drinking water supply and helps irrigate over 300,000 acres of cropland."

#Idaho #OpenPit #Mining #Environment #WaterIsLife #ThackerPass

Read more:
https://www.idahoconservation.org/blog/an-open-pit-mine-planned-upstream-of-boise/

In a toxin-exposed #Montana #mining town, the EPA favors polluters

Scientists say the agency is siding with the companies, even after it acknowledged that open-pit mining in Butte is unsafe and requires major cleanup.

by Wilson Criscione, March 6, 2023

"It’s the result of decades of open-pit mining that continues to this day in Butte. McDermott was stunned at how close the mining pits were to homes and businesses. In town, she noticed parked cars with a film of dust that looked as if ash had fallen from a fire. Her son, who worked for the local newspaper, later told her of children in Butte who had developed mysterious ailments.

"'It just struck me that there’s something very unhealthy going on here,' said McDermott, a professor at the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.

"#Butte, a once-booming city, is home to a massive #Superfund site overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency. Past mining has polluted the soil and water in and around Butte, and when Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) abandoned the mine in 1982, it left a pit that’s since filled with water so #toxic that it kills flocks of birds that land on it."

#OpenPit #Environment #Pollution #WaterIsLife

Read more:
https://crosscut.com/environment/2023/03/toxin-exposed-montana-mining-town-epa-favors-polluters

#OpenPit #mining is the WORST! It's been banned in #Maine and other places...

The electric car is here to save the environment — unless the environment in question is atop or around precious minerals like lithium needed in car batteries.

Lithium mine near Oregon border threatens sacred cultural sites

A federal appeals court greenlit a Canadian mining company’s massive open-pit lithium mine near the Oregon border in Nevada on March 1, dealing the latest blow to Native American tribes and environmentalists seeking to prevent mine construction.

by Melanie Henshaw | 7 Mar 2023

- The latest lawsuit alleges the Bureau of Land Management, or BLM, and mining company Lithium Americas violated multiple laws in the planning process and that the project would destroy the site of an 1865 U.S. Army massacre of Paiute people.

- Water and land defenders, protesters who support Indigenous causes to prevent harm to water and land through extraction and development, are also protesting the mine.

- Arlan Melendez, chairman of the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, said the Trump administration fast-tracked the project, bypassing consultation with tribes but for a single letter sent to the three tribal nations closest to Peehee Mu’huh.

#ProtectThackerPass #ProtectPeeheeMuhuh #greenwashing #EVs #lithium #sacredsites #biodiversity #EnvironmentalRacism #CulturalGenocide

Read more: https://www.streetroots.org/news/2023/03/07/protecting-peehee-muhuh

@poelterbuxe PSSST! Nicht auch noch auf Ideen bringen...!

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20112014/hazards-open-pits-storing-wastewater-fracking-focus-new-study/

#fracking #producedwater #openpit #wastewater #groundwater

#Navajo Government Joining Australian Company to Devastate Hualapai Sacred Land for #Lithium Mine

by Brenda Norrell, Censored News - December 9, 2022

"Hualapai say that carving an #OpenPit mine into the earth would devastate the aquifer that feeds Ha'Kamwe, a sacred spring that the #Hualapai people have used medicinally since time immemorial."
#Indigenous #HonorTheEarth #EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife

Read more at:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2022/12/navajo-government-joining-australian.html