Tuesday, June 08, 2021

Every Wildflower is Sacred, Even 'Buckwheat' | The Pipeline

Every Wildflower is Sacred, Even 'Buckwheat' | The Pipeline
"It’s my view that the Environmental Protection Act goes too far and allows every vital major energy-producing and -extraction project to be bollixed up by those who hate humanity
Those who wish to save every rare weed, snail darter and smelt attribute sacredness and need to "preserve" everything except humans.
...lithium is mined mostly in Australia, Chile, China and Argentina. 
If we mine more here we could reduce the cost of electric vehicles. 
If we don’t, we’ll be importing it, mostly from China. 
...Now the Administration has gone even further in initiating action which could halt construction of a lithium mine in Nevada. 
This mine would create 700-900  jobs, and is expected to produce enough lithium to power “hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles annually.” 
Under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has just determined that it will list a 6-inch tall wildflower -- Tiehm’s buckwheat -- as a threatened or endangered species...Read all.

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