Threatened by Mining Exploration by Maria Jesus One of my most memorable trips to Conglomerate Mesa was on a hot summer day when I was looking for rare plants, but also keeping an ear out for helicopters. I had heard that K2 Gold, a Canadian exploration company, had received authorization to drill for gold at … Continue reading Botanical Riches of Conglomerate Mesa
Desert Home
A Photographer's Journey by Justin McAffee A desert is defined as a place receiving less than ten inches of sporadic rainfall annually. It doesn't mean a place uninhabited by flora or fauna, but the lack of rain certainly limits a desert's capacity to host large numbers of people, plants, and animals. But wastelands, they are … Continue reading Desert Home
Gold Exploration in Long Valley
A NEPA Categorical Exclusion by Lynn Boulton Still in effect today, the 1872 General Mining Act makes it very difficult for the federal govern-ment to deny proposals for hard rock mining. The Act and rising gold prices reaching a height of $2,038/oz on August 5, 2020, has stimulated gold exploration in California and Nevada. Over … Continue reading Gold Exploration in Long Valley
Nevada’s Outback
The Next Green Energy Ground Zero by Kevin Emmerich, Basin and Range Watch Large-scale renewable energy developers have been looking for ways to develop vast swaths of Nevada public lands for about twelve years now. Their problem has always been a lack of available transmission access and capacity. Just about every basin in Nevada has … Continue reading Nevada’s Outback
Mo-ja-ve
Poem by Shannon Salter, read at the site of the Yellow Pine Solar Project in Pahrump Valley Jackrabbit, you are my brother! The blue whale burst off inside you The white sun It is 1905 and America has built the Union Pacific Railroad And the heart of God has put his face onto the cement … Continue reading Mo-ja-ve
Trump’s Border Legacy and a Civics Lesson
One Citizen can Make a Difference by Nick Ervin He is gone. Yet his legacy, in all too many regrettable ways, persists. Donald Trump is now a private citizen, but the consequences of his four year assault on America's environment live on to haunt us. The destruction has occurred at so many levels and can … Continue reading Trump’s Border Legacy and a Civics Lesson
The Climate Costs of Tourism
We are All Locavists Now - Let's Stay that Way! by Steve Hollenhorst We've all thought it while stuck in our contracted pandemic worlds of home, zoom meetings, grocery runs, and local exercise circuits. We can't help but think, "I can't wait to travel again." Like starving castaways, we fantasize over the places we will … Continue reading The Climate Costs of Tourism
In Love with Death Valley – a Visitor from Europe
by Monica von Behr It was in 2011, on a research-trip for a documentary, that my husband and I saw Death Valley for the first time. It was love at first glance: the overwhelming space, melting into a bluish infinity, surrounded by far away mountain ranges, vaulted by an enormous unlimited sky. We never had … Continue reading In Love with Death Valley – a Visitor from Europe
Cyanide Heap Leach Gold Mine at Indian Pass – will this Travesty of Justice never end?
From: Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, March 9, 2021 Subject: Update on Imperial USA Corporation/Kore mining exploration project at Indian Pass. In 1994, Glamis Gold, a Canadian gold producer, attempted to obtain permits to operate a mine on the sacred and culturally significant land at Indian Pass in Imperial County, CA. At the time, … Continue reading Cyanide Heap Leach Gold Mine at Indian Pass – will this Travesty of Justice never end?
GREEN ENERGY MEETS MINING BY DAVID VON SEGGERN
Thacker Pass, Nevada THE RECENTLY APPROVED (2/20/2020) Sierra Club policy “Mining and Mining Law Reform Policy (including minerals for Clean Energy)” states in its opening sentences: Mining by its very nature is a dirty business and highly disruptive of the natural and human environment. It involves disturbing the terrestrial and/or marine environment with short term … Continue reading GREEN ENERGY MEETS MINING BY DAVID VON SEGGERN