The October 2022 agreement “is a testament to our company’s commitment to go beyond our regulatory requirements and to form constructive relationships with the communities closest to our projects,″ Lithium Americas President and CEO Jonathan Evans said in a statement. It also agreed to build a community center that includes a preschool and playground for the reservation, where close to half the population lives in poverty. Lithium Americas, the Canadian company that is developing the project, signed an agreement with the Fort McDermitt tribe - the closest to the mine among more than two dozen federally recognized tribes and bands in Nevada - to ensure local hiring, job training and other benefits. Still, he is skeptical about how many jobs will go to impoverished tribe members.ĭespite ongoing protests, Crutcher called the project “a done deal.″ Biden and Trump don’t agree on much, he said, “but there’s one thing they agreed on: They both supported this.
“This could help our tribe,″ said Fort McDermitt Tribal Chairman Arlo Crutcher, who recently went to Washington with company executives to meet with the Interior Department. The project does have the support of some leaders of Hinkey’s tribe, who point to the promise of jobs and development on a reservation where unemployment is far above the national average. “It’s going to directly affect my people, my culture, my religion, my tradition, my children and children after that.” “Lithium mines and this whole push for renewable energy - the agenda of the Green New Deal - is what I like to call green colonialism,″ Hinkey said. Cavalry massacred their ancestors after the Civil War. The group says that in addition to environmental impacts, the Thacker Pass mine would desecrate a site where the U.S. Hinkey, 25, is a member of the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe and a leader of a group known as People of Red Mountain - named after the scarlet peak that overlooks her house. Similar disputes are taking place around the world as governments and companies advancing renewable energy find themselves battling communities opposed to projects that threaten wildlife, groundwater and air quality. But Hinkey and other opponents say it is not worth the costs to the local environment and people.
The Biden administration says the project will help mitigate climate change by speeding the shift away from fossil fuels. No mine!″ proclaims a large hand-painted sign in Hinkey’s front yard.
OROVADA, Nevada (AP) - Just 45 miles (72 kilometers) from the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation where Daranda Hinkey and her family corral horses and cows, a centerpiece of President Joe Biden’s clean energy plan is taking shape: construction of one of the largest lithium mines in the world.Īs heavy trucks dig up the earth in this remote, windswept region of Nevada to extract the silvery-white metal used in electric-vehicle batteries, the $2.2 billion project is fueling a backlash.
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