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Posted on 02/05/2022 2:26:28 AM PST by Libloather
RENO, Nev. (AP) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed designating critical habitat for a Nevada wildflower it plans to list as endangered amid a conflict over a mine to produce lithium batteries for electric vehicles critical to the Biden administration’s plans to combat climate change.
The agency on Wednesday proposed designating critical habitat for Tiehm’s buckwheat on a high-desert ridge near the California line halfway between Reno and Las Vegas.
It’s the only place in the world the delicate, 6-inch-tall (15-centimeter) wildflower with yellow blooms is known to exist.
It’s also the site where Ioneer USA Corp. plans to build a big lithium mine.
Ioneer said the proposed designation was “an anticipated development” that “has no material impacts on our planned mining activities.”
The Australian-based company noted that mining is allowed within areas designated as critical habitat if approved by the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management.
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It said Ioneer plans to avoid and fence off half of the eight separate places within the 10-acre (4-hectare) site where the flowers grow and “remove and salvage all remaining plants ... and translocate them to another location.”
But the agency said soil studies and results of greenhouse experiments show there’s a “unique envelope of soil conditions in which Tiehm’s buckwheat thrives that is different from adjacent unoccupied soils.”
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The only EVs that should be on the roads are the golf carts in the retirement communities.
We should study the lithium powered flowers. Then we could say are cars are Flower Powered. Kind of like the flower stickers on VW beetles and busses back in the 60’s - 70’s.
Yup. "We" will pay China more for lithium strip mined out of Afghanistan.
U.S. based mining companies are all to familiar with the barriers "our" government places on creating wealth.
Exterminate, replace with Chinese laborers.
I would love to diagram the mental gyrations of the green cultists. First the try to force a change, then when the change is occurring they find a reason to push against it. Rinse repeat. They either want to cause so much chaos that civilization collapses or they are just plain evil.
The result of all of this is that states will forced everyone to have an EV then cause the price to be so out of reach of normal people that they move back to cities and public transportation. People in cities are easy to control. Look at NYC and other big cities with covid. They willingly sell themselves in to slavery.
Can we transplant?
Exterminate, replace with Chinese laborers.
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Worked well for the Russians and the US - you recon the Chinese will fare better? Not many people acclimate to the high altitudes and are still able to do hard labor.
Besides, the only real interest the Chinese have in Afghan is to stop Uyghurs from being trained by the various Afghan militias
Either?
Why not both?
You mean like Tibetans?
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You mean like Tibetans?
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Yeah right. Tibetans are very unlikely to be picked as they are trouble and not the sort the Xi Dynasty is likely to pick in their worldwide campaign to promote the superiority of their government and of the Han people.
Fair point. But isn’t sending the undesirables to the salt mines a tradition that goes way back to the dawn of civilization?
On second thought, likely both.
Well, in that case no one will miss it when it's gone!
But isn’t sending the undesirables to the salt mines a tradition that goes way back to the dawn of civilization?
No this is different
Sending any people other the “racially superior Han” would be counter productive to the Xi Dynasty’s propaganda. It would be more trouble for the guards than it is worth. So Han it must be.
Even if China was so inclined to mine it, which it does not seen like they are - they have the lithium market cornered as it is. No one else is likely to want to do high altitude mining with low end scrape the bottom of the barrel laborers.
8.98 years left, lol.
I expect we’ll see how it plays out soon enough.
just spray the whole area with roundup from the air one night ... no problem once rare snail-darter flower goes extinct ...
Why bother with Nevada? Texas is loaded with lithium in the flowback water of hundreds of thousands of oil wells every one of which is nothing more than a contaminated water well. The avg water to oil.ratio in the Permian basin is six to one. The amount of lithium just being pumped back down salt water disposal well is staggering. Look below thats one well over one week. There is over a hundred thousand active wells on flow back in the Permian basin with equal.lithium salt contents as the eagle ford shale. The wolfcamp shale is as salty or more.
Just a single week’s worth of water from hydraulic fracturing in Texas’ Eagle Ford Shale has the potential to produce enough lithium for 300 electric vehicle batteries or 1.7 million smartphones, the researchers said. This example shows the scale of opportunities for this new technique to vastly increase lithium supply and lower costs for devices that rely on it.
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