The rush to mine lithium for car batteries is dividing environmental and native American communities.
The area around Thacker Pass, in the Nevada desert, is believed to contain the largest lithium deposits in the USIn the high Nevadan desert near the Oregon border lies an enormous deposit of lithium, a metal that is essential in the production of electric car batteries.
"The entire environmental community is split on this thing," says Glen Miller, who used to be on the board of local environmental charity Great Basin Resource Watch, which is opposed to mining. "We can reduce demand for minerals by just changing habits. One thing I'm really concerned about is that we're losing an opportunity to do other things to address climate change," he says.Mr Miller resigned from its board last year after coming out in support of the mine.
" environmentalists will say we should drive less, we should not use anything that requires us to pull these metals up. Nobody's going to do that," he says.Tim Crowley, vice-president of government affairs at Lithium Americas, says he considers himself an environmentalist. Lithium Americas argues there is not evidence the massacre happened on the site - and has won in court.
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