The Left’s utopian energy future would be a lot more attainable with nuclear, but that’s verboten. Another requirement is lithium, but the only way to get that is open-pit mining, also verboten.
Sorry, correction. Open-pit mining is acceptable in dirt-poor third-world countries or places that hate us. It is acceptable to despoil Gaia to fulfill Western Prog fantasies of a clean energy future if they can’t see it. An interesting juxtaposition for people who claim to be liberal. Deference to one invisible “god” at the expense of all others by a political faction that denies god even exists.
It’s all good as long we cannot see the scars, they are not there, but this is in Maine, so it might be a useless discovery because, well, we could see it.
The richest known hard rock lithium deposit in the world lies a few miles northeast of the ski slopes of Sunday River and not far from Step Falls, where swimmers can wade in shallow pools formed by hundreds of feet of cascading granite ledge.
The current value is estimated at 1.5 billion, but what’s that in today’s terms? A spec on a clover resting on the debt sled barreling toward the bottom of the lithium mine, if you take my meaning.
Yes, that 1.5 billion might be great for Maine’s economy, shovel ready jobs and all, but the flip side of pretending that mining lithium (and while we’re at it, making batteries made with it) isn’t a nasty carbon-intensive process is that the false green god cannot be fed without it.
“We know that the Maine mining laws are such that there’s not one single active mine in Maine,” said Mary Freeman, who owns the land with her husband, Gary, a co-author on the paper describing the find.
It’s not hopeless. Tearing a hole in Maine is not beyond reach. That sort of revenue potential buys a lot of “looking the other way.” And we’re not talking about a natural gas pipeline or a power corridor. This is mana to help us reach the rickety gates of the promised energy utopia.
A land covered from sea to shining sea with wind turbines and solar fields that still can’t provide enough to power for even our current economy, but shush, none of that. We’re in a dream sequence, soft focus, soothing light, the police were defunded, no one but the government has guns, just imagine. Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion, too.
None of the fantasy is real, nor ever shall it be, but many lawyers and politicians will get wealthy litigating or reimaging the laws in Maine at the expense of others over a deposit of the largest lithium-bearing crystals ever found, regardless.
It is useful material beyond the fraud attached to it.
So, maybe they dig it up, (despite extraction, transporting, processing, manufacturing, transporting again, assembly, transporting for disposal, and actual disposal – or processing and dumping – all being nasty and carbon-intensive) because it’s lithium! The Progs who want to break a few eggs to make their green omelet will convince the Progs who don’t that we have to have it.
Imagine!
That’s how you end up with a centrally planned police state and a two-class society like every other socialist experiment in human history. You convince the idiots on your side to oppress everyone else until they get what they want, and then THEY oppress everyone equally.
Equity and diversity are opposite concepts pretending to aspire to a common goal. One means the same, and the other means different. And after a fashion, the goal is to treat everyone the same, to forge a system of equal justice, but not the way their water-carriers were told to imagine.
It is a path to a world where the ruling class mistreats everyone equally. At which point they can and will tear the top off what they want, if they want, when they want, and you won’t be able to do or say a damn thing about it. You can try, but then you’ll learn what they meant by justice.
Much like open-pit mining, it’s not pretty, but it “works.”
Oh, and it’s just across the border from New Hampshire, if that matters.
Note: Tweaked the title after publication “from Richest Lithium Mine…” to “Richest Lithium Deposit…”. It’s not a mine until they mine it, and as noted, that’s less likely under current conditions.
