2021-06-09, 09:05 AM
(2021-06-09, 08:49 AM)Candace66 Wrote: I guess eventually the entire desert will be covered with solar projects and/or lithium mines.
It looks that way but I am seeing several recent wins by environmental groups that have stopped or scaled back some of these projects.
There is a massive interest to mine lithium in the Great Basin and Mojave but it's really lacking a lot of investment money. Two lithium mine sites in Nevada that looked like they were about to go into production suddenly became bogged down in environmental and social issue lawsuits...
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There are solar, lithium, gold and transmission line projects on the planning boards that could impact the view shed buffers along the three paved highways leading in to and out of Death Valley. The most impacted is the Beatty area north along US 95 and west along NV 374.