Lithium mines

Both Trump and Biden favored buy American and pushed to bring production back home or something called onshoring. One of the newest is a lithium mine in Nevada but there is a snag. These tribal activist want Biden to stop a planned lithium mine on their sacred land. If this sounds familiar it should as this is what happened with the Keystone Pipeline that Biden shut down. This is just the beginning of what is going to happen to many of the proposed infrastructure plans. Beside the problems with Native Americans there are even bigger problems with the environment. Here is a list released by environmental groups. Overall, large amounts of water pollution might create a severe imbalance in the local ecosystems and adversely affect the environment. Lithium miners also use heavy machinery that consumes a lot of energy and produces various toxic gases, including carbon dioxide. Lithium extraction requires a lot of water. To extract one ton of lithium, you need approximately 500,000 gallons of water. Another unfortunate reality is that large-scale lithium extraction requires plenty of land. Lithium contains chemical substances that cause respiratory problems in humans and animals. Sustainable water table reduction ensures the availability of adequate water sources. Some of the most common mining wastes are sulfuric acid discharge and the radioactive uranium byproduct. Lithium extraction causes surface water contamination. It also destroys other water sources. So, it’s partly responsible for the creation of toxic rain.