The Sierra Club will have it tied up in the courts for decades, saving the purple-breasted snail fish, or some such.
https://www.lithiumamericas.com/usa/thacker-pass/
Thacker Pass received a Record of Decision in January 2021 from the US Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and has all permits required to commence construction. Construction is expected to commence in 2023.
Thacker Pass is situated at the southern end of the McDermitt Caldera, approximately 100 km northwest of Winnemucca, in Humboldt County, northern Nevada.
The Project has been designed to avoid environmentally sensitive and rugged terrain. The flat and expansive terrain allows for a very compact footprint and allows for future potential expansions.
The Thacker Pass operation will include a co-located sulfuric acid plant that will convert molten sulfur into sulfuric acid. This process produces steam, which we will use to generate carbon-free power for the processing facilities. Co-locating a sulfuric acid plant reduces the number of trucks on the road, as each ton of sulfur can create three tons of sulfuric acid, and sulfur is much safer to transport.
I’m not so sure.
Their windmills are killing birds all over the place. The ones in the ocean are killing whales. And that place in the Cali desert, with the mirrors, that fries birds in mid-flight is humming along.
Just goes to show you that everything is for show and they don’t really care about anything.