The mine is based on lies and “greenwashing.”
Lithium Americas Corporation is pretending that blowing up a mountain, destroying sacred sites, harming wildlife, releasing 150,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually, and burning more than 11,000 gallons of diesel fuel per day is “green.”
Read more about greenwashing and the lie that this is a green mine.
The mine project would suck more than 4 million gallons of water per day.
The water would be extracted from an over-pumped aquifer in the driest state in the country, and pollute water and air with uranium, antimony, and other toxic substances.
Read more about water and air pollution.
This project is a threat to democracy.
If this mine is built, it will make a mockery of democracy through expedited permitting, flawed scientific analysis, corporate-government backroom collaboration, truncated public commenting, and inadequate tribal consultation.
Read more about the government’s complicity.