Posted on 06/03/2021 12:16:46 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
RENO, Nev. (AP) — An extremely rare wildflower that grows only in Nevada’s high desert where an Australian mining company wants to dig for lithium should be protected under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday.
The conclusion announced on Thursday that federal protection is warranted could jeopardize Ioneer Ltd.’s plans to build the mine halfway between Reno and Las Vegas.
It’s an early test of the Biden administration’s ability to make good on promises to protect public lands and their native species while at the same time pursuing an ambitious clean energy agenda that includes bolstering production of lithium needed for electric car batteries.
Demand for lithium worldwide is expected to double by 2025. Much of the world’s lithium supply currently comes from Australia and South America, where Chinese firms are heavily invested.
Boosting domestic production could potentially lower the price tag on a key component of President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion climate plan: offering rebates to consumers to trade in gas-powered for electric cars.
The only large-scale lithium mine currently operating in the U.S. is also in Nevada, only about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from where Ioneer proposes its mine. The North Carolina-based Albemarle’s Silver Peak Mine has been in operation since the 1960s.
A third lithium mine proposed in north-central Nevada near the Oregon line at the largest known lithium deposit in the U.S. also is facing legal challenges.
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Let it go extinct.
It won’t be the first time and won’t be the last.
Garden store, pots, soil
Hey Joe. Isn’t Lithium needed for batteries for all those electric cars you want on the roads? Oh, sorry to wake you.
Meanwhile non-persons are being destroyed.
All of a sudden, they just cannot live without that particular flower. What happened? Run out of imported field mice?
I think this should be put to a vote. Let the Left pick their argument - clean energy or some flowers. Make them make the decision and then make them live with it.
Contrast that with what we do now, where the adults in the room make the hard decisions and the Left gets to whine about it no matter what the decision is and then sue to do the opposite.
Mining in the US under traitor Joe is, like oil pipelines and oil exploration, on borrowed time. Next up farming, livestock raising, commercial fishing, and timber harvesting.
Natural resource harvesting must be eliminated, as it will further help our dependency on China - the workers in those industries can be easily led into training for jobs that will not exist when the training is finished, like Bill Clinton did.
Use a 36” tree spade to dig a pilot hole, a mile away, drop the plug, and use the same space to dig the wildflower’s habitat and move it into the pilot hole. I’ve done similar things for 35yrs as a horticulturalist/ botanist/ landscape contractor and it works just fine.
It’s not the only buckwheat flower species, and some of the others are much prettier. And some are grown commercially. Why isn’t this one able to be relocated or grown commercially? I guess the major question is what needs it to keep nature balances in that area?
I wonder who paid off whom in Fish and Wildlife?
Ok... Let’s sum this up..
National security...
Or...
A friggin flower...
And the rest of the world laughs at us..
> Isn’t Lithium needed for batteries for all those electric cars you want on the roads? <
No worries. We can always buy more lithium from China. Sure, they are filthy polluters. But who cares? Out of sight, out of mind
Climate Cretins won’t be able to develop desert lands for solar farms, then. Too many flowers and kangaroo mice live there.
Heard afghanistan has lithium but so as not to appear badly in the eyes of the world we just let the chicoms have it. But hey, at least the ultra rare wild flower will be protected in NevaDUH. Until some prairie dog comes along and munches on it.
Biden is just preserving China’s control of the lithium market.
If this was serious, Nevada being such a small state... they could simply move any flower’s affected by the site. Or set aside some acreage as “wildflower preserve”. Thats another scam, but its one they do all the time. You want your project, you donate land for a wildlife preserve.
I remember we had to relocate kit foxes for a project. It was stupid, because we had kit foxes living in town. They were never endangered by our project or any other. But for the sake of a permit, we relocated them.
But in no way should they deny permission for a mine for a flower. But deny them because your family is owned lock-stock-and-barrel by Beijing, that makes complete sense.
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I am nowhere near your expertise but I am a gardener.
what you say is exactly right. There's no reason why this wouldn't work.
They don't want the bother or the expense I must guess.
Flower Power. A bunch of left over lefties from the 60’s.
If anyone remembers, that was the story behind the story of the Bundy ranch. Harry Reid’s sons were wrapped up in it. The Chinese were building a project, and they worked it out that the land they would donate was Bundy’s land.
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