A $1.5 billion lithium deposit has been discovered in western Maine, but mining it could be hard

The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting ^ | Kate Cough

[EEGator]

We should have spent the last 20 years strip mining the hell out of Afghanistan for rare Earth metals.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[Lurkinanloomin]

The enviroweenies will never permit it.

[ClearCase_guy]

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard ...”
— JFK

[rktman]

😂. BranDUHn’s epa-——— Nope!

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

I’d laugh if Elon and the Boring company offer to dig to it from underneath.

[throwthebumsout]

The Envirowackos’ dilemma. They need the lithium for their “green” cars, but they have to somehow get around the mining regulations that they put in place in order to get to it.

[glorgau]

By the time all the permits and studies are done the battery chemistries will probably have moved along to something else.

[Tell It Right]

The Dims who restrict our access to fossil fuels in the name of saving the earth will do the same with lithium and other rare-earth's.

It's not about saving the earth. It never was. It's about control and money. Always has been. Always will be.

[brownsfan]

Mining will be devastating to the environment. Good! Let Americans compare and contrast oil wells to Lithium mines.

[NWFree]

Time for Libtards to start lacing up their walking shoes 🤪

[PIF]

We know that the Maine mining laws are such that there’s not one single active mine in Maine

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Nor will there ever be. Environmental wackos and NGOs will see to it.

[Born in 1950]

“The enviroweenies will never permit it.“

The progress bigger weenies will defer to them.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

What are they planning on doing? Mining the stomach walls of Massachusetts millionaire depressives with summer homes in Maine?

[NWFree]

“ The Envirowackos’ dilemma. They need the lithium for their “green” cars, but they have to somehow get around the mining regulations that they put in place in order to get to it.”

The “green” cars that require gigantic amounts of electric power generated by coal and hydrocarbons 🤪

After it’s all used up the batteries are toxic landfill material polluting till the end of time.

[NWFree]

It’s a complete and utter exercise in futility for the reasons they use to force upon us 🤪

[Sacajaweau]

There are plenty of sources in the US...

[the OlLine Rebel]

Wow, this is so close to my father’s hometown up there! Exciting (if commies would allow anything to be done)!

[hinckley buzzard]

Yes, I spent four bleak years in Maine for college. Got to know the local talent well. A more obtuse, provincial bunch of locals I have never met anywhere else outside Appalachia.