Owners of the Thacker Pass project broke ground on Wednesday, despite a two-year battle over the site.
saying that the project’s opponents had not yet proved that there were significant environmental issues with the permit, and it
allowed construction to proceed while mandating portions of the permit be reviewed. The appeal denied this week was a last-ditch attempt to temporarily pause that decision. “This massive open pit mine has been fast-tracked from start to finish in defiance of environmental laws, all in the name of ‘green energy,’ but its environmental impacts will be permanent and severe,” Talasi Brooks, a lawyer for the Western Watersheds Project, said in aSome of the opposition to the Thacker Pass project has itself been problematic.
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