Trout Creek Mercury, Lithium, Diesel Road and Ecocide Rape Saliva Fasttracked

"A proposed Southeast Oregon lithium project has been under review for three years. Now the Trump administration is giving people until Monday to comment before proceeding." 

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"The federal government is proposing to allow an Australian company to explore for lithium on the Oregon-Nevada border and it’s giving the public 

 scant time to respond.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management earlier this week posted an environmental assessment for HiTech Minerals to do exploratory drilling for lithium within the McDermitt Caldera, an old volcano that spans the state line. The company, a subsidiary of Jindalee Lithium, says the area has one of the highest concentrations of lithium in the U.S.  "

https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2025/03/feds-look-to-fast-track-lithium-mining-exploration-in-se-oregon.html 

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The agency’s assessment outlines the full scope of Jindalee Resources’ plans to search the area for lithium, a highly valuable metal used in batteries. Under its subsidiary, HiTech Minerals, Jindalee aims to bore up to 800 feet into the earth across 7,200 acres in Malheur County, near the Oregon-Nevada border.

The region’s famed McDermitt Caldera — formed by an ancient supervolcano — is thought to have some of the highest concentrations of lithium in the United States. A British Columbia-based company, Lithium Americas, operates a lithium mine on the Nevada side of the caldera. No mine has officially been proposed in Oregon, though Jindalee Resources’ exploration could be the first step toward building one. 

The announcement comes as the Trump administration pushes for mining and drilling on public lands. Through executive orders and other directives, President Donald Trump has called on federal agencies like the Department of the Interior, which manages the BLM, to fast-track resource extraction projects like mining, drilling and logging.

This push for more U.S. resource extraction comes as new tariffs, including some advanced by the Biden administration, are pushing up the price of materials the country has largely imported from overseas.

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/03/26/blm-rushes-review-oregon-lithium-mine/ 

 

The Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) underlines America’s ambitions to assist in the energy transition towards electric mobility within the transportation sector.

Driven by the need for the US to reduce dependence on imported battery materials and chemicals, the US Government has committed US$369 billion via the IRA to promote projects and businesses within the American battery value chain.

Our Tier 1 asset represents a significant opportunity for investors, partners and ......

Our wholly owned McDermitt Lithium Project 

 hosts one of the nation’s largest lithium resources and 

 sits on the doorstep 

 of America’s auto industry.

 

We have engaged global engineering house Fluor Corporation to lead a  

Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) " 

 

Ethical 
Pragmatism 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/mar/29/trump-administration-bureaucracy-cartoons#img-1

"Ethical pragmatism, a philosophical approach to ethics, emphasizes the practical consequences and 

 real-world effectiveness of moral beliefs and actions as the basis for their truth and value, rather than 

 abstract principles or theories. " 

"The McDermitt Caldera is a large, oval-shaped caldera west of McDermitt in southeastern Oregon and northern Nevada in the United States. It is about 28 miles (45 km) long north–south and 22 miles (35 km) wide east–west.^[3] The western part of the caldera is in the  

Trout Creek Mountains,  

and the northern part is in the Oregon Canyon Mountains. 

The highest point of the McDermitt Caldera is Jordan Meadow Mountain at 6,816 feet (2,078 m), which is part of the Montana Mountains of Humboldt County, Nevada." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDermitt_Caldera 

 

Most of the range is public land administered by the federal Bureau of Land Management. There is very little human development in the remote region—cattle grazing and ranching are the primary human uses—but  

former mines at the McDermitt Caldera produced some of the largest amounts of mercury 

 in North America in the 20th century. 

 Public lands in the mountains are open to recreation but are rarely visited. 

 Vegetation includes large swaths of big sagebrush in addition to desert grasses and cottonwood and alder stands. 

 Sage grouse and mountain chickadee are two bird species native to the range, and common mammals include  

pronghorn and jackrabbits." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trout_Creek_Mountains 

"The protest was part of a global day of protests planned under the umbrella of the Tesla Takedown movement.  

Organizers say the rallies will take place in front of more than 200 Tesla locations worldwide, including nearly 50 in California."

"The checks and balances have just failed. As much as people are trying to not say these words, they are fascists, they are white supremacists, they’re xenophobes, they’re misogynists, and they’re coming for everyone. And what starts in America comes over here.”