( ) -q-29- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “satellites orbiting overhead.” The latest challenge to lithium mining in Nevada in the push for cleaner energy comes from a place where no opposition has arisen before: space. [CutID: <Cuts> NASA-LITHIUM-house-q-FRIam.mp3 Time: 29s Title: NASA-LITHIUM-house-q-FRIam Out-cue: satellites orbiting overhead] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. A Nevada congressman has […]
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NASA opposes lithium mining at Nevada site used to calibrate satellites
( ) -q-29- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “satellites orbiting overhead.”
The latest challenge to lithium mining in Nevada in the push for cleaner energy comes from a place where no opposition has arisen before: space.
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Out-cue: satellites orbiting overhead]
TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. A Nevada congressman has introduced legislation opposing the removal of the tract as a potential lithium mining site.
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VERBATIM: At NASA’s request, U.S. land managers have withdrawn about 36 square miles of federal land from potential mineral exploration and mining at a desert site 250 miles northeast of Las Vegas. The U.S. space agency says the unusually flat desert tract above the lithium deposit must be left undisturbed. It argues the unique topography is used to calibrate razor-sharp measurements for hundreds of satellites orbiting overhead.