Babylon Bee?
Can’t mess with this plant. It’s the preferred food of snail darters.
Why is an Australian company mining American lithium?
The unique soil is an absurdity. Look at a damn soil map and I’m sure you’ll find other patches with the exact same chem qualitites....and not far away.
Too bad. You’ll ride a bicycle like a Chinese coolie and like it.
Oh well, we can always get lithium from China.
Typical. Demand we go to electric cars and prevent mining the minerals necessary for electric cars. We also gave away our access to rare earths when we fled from Afghanistan and gave away much of our domestic assets necessary for chips and batteries and such. Poverty for the People seems to be the goal here.
Fish n wildlife is packed with more commies than red Square is imho.
the ones who did the surveys need to take a polygraph under sodium penothal and questioned about their survey methods and places they looked , or didn’t look , for other areas for the soil and existence of this flower.
Check their math too.
They just want the lithium to be bought from CCP imho.
The mineing company needs to hire a private firm to do a confirming survey .
I’ll bet you money there is no endangerment and their ‘ surveys’ are crap.
Your new EV just got a little bit more expensive.
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Likely the dust and fumes from the mining operations will settle on the remaining flowers, changing the soil composition and killing them.
The more expensive the EV, the better.
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.
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?
Well, in that case no one will miss it when it's gone!
8.98 years left, lol.
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.