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Solidarity with Resistance to Extraction
The Rush for White Gold
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Austin Price
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On January 15, the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approved a lithium mine at Thacker Pass, the site of the largest known lithium deposit in the United States. Through its subsidiary Lithium Nevada, Vancouver-based Lithium Americas plans to dig a 1,000-acre open-pit mine to tap into the estimated $2.6-billion resource over the next 45 years.
Apple finally admits its products are difficult to repair
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Maddie Stone
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Major tech brands like Apple and Microsoft must now give their smartphones and laptops "repairability" scores in France — and the initial results don’t look good.
Capitalism's Fake Solutions to the Climate Crisis
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Emma Black
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The name dropping of an array of these high-tech “solutions” to the climate crisis was a feature of US President Joe Biden’s Earth Day summit in April. Among those in which Biden has promised to invest US$35 billion as part of his proposed American Jobs Plan are carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, nuclear, floating offshore wind, biofuels and electric vehicles.
Chile shifts left to rewrite Pinochet-era constitution, as Goldman Sachs eyes its copper reserves
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Ben Norton
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Turning the Tide on Large-Scale Hydropower
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DANIEL HENRYK RASOLT
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Photo by Daniel Henryk Rasolt.
In Colombia, activists and scientists are boosting mega-dam resistance by showing the cumulative impacts of these destructive projects. When El Quimbo was constructed, its reservoir flooded 80 square kilometers of forest and fertile agricultural land, displaced around 450 families, and killed the livelihoods of fishermen downstream.
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