The War on Truth
September 6th, 2022
Required reading for early September — there’s not much time until November 8th, and we have so much to do!
Talon Mine & another CO2 capture scam?
September 1st, 2022
Rio Tinto Press Release from February 2022 about its Talon mine (Talon Metals, Talon Nickel, whatever…):
DOE backs Rio Tinto led team to explore carbon storage at Tamarack
Did we learn nothing from the Mesaba Project and their bogus “carbon capture and storage” scam? Apparently not, here we go again…
Tesla will buy nickel from planned Talon Metals Minnesota mine
Here’s Talon’s June 2022 powerpoint:
This project is planned for the area around Tamarack, north mostly.
The Talon application to “continue” the “exploration plan” was approved earlier this year by the DNR, on April 12, 2022 (scroll down at link), less than a month after it was applied for!
The initial “exploration plan” was approved by the DNR on April 5, 2021:
Oh, but wait, that’s NOT the initial plan, there were two earlier applications to the DNR, also approved, oh, make that FOUR:
Notice of BLM Lava Ridge meeting
August 22nd, 2022
As we left our Craters of the Moon Nat’l Monument campsite in Idaho in May…
… and headed southeasterly, on the way to the rather new Minidoka Nat’l Historic Site, Alan discovered that there was a Lava Ridge wind project proposed for the area.
Here’s today’s notice from BLM:
Details:
Thursday, August 25, 2022
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time
Virtual via Zoom – Zoom Registration
The first meeting was on July 7, 2022:
View the recorded meeting here
My LTE in STrib – Mar-a-Lardo search
August 13th, 2022
The Lava Ridge wind project is likely the country’s largest wind project thus far, with turbines twice the size of those in Minnesota. Here’s the “Magic Valley” developer page: https://www.magicvalleyenergy.com/
And the BLM page for the project:
LAVA RIDGE WIND PROJECT
Cut & paste of some basic facts for the project:
BLM National NEPA Register — Lava Ridge Wind Project
The “Friends of Minidoka” are actively challenging this project, more info here, the link is dated, a cut & paste blurb from BLM:
Bureau of Land Management Extends Public Scoping for the Lava Ridge Wind Project
The prerecorded presentation and scoping posters are available on the project website at https://go.usa.gov/xFKxg.
Contact info for BLM, please contact Kasey Prestwich, Lava Ridge Wind Project EIS Project Manager, Phone: 208-732-7204, E-mail: kprestwich@blm.gov.
From that Scoping Report, here’s another, better map:
I’d expect the EIS will take at least a few more months, and perhaps not be released until next year. I’ve asked and will report in if I get a response. And here ’tis, expected that “Draft EIS will be published in September 2022 and a Notice of Availability for the Final EIS will be published in April 2023.”
Just in today (I’d requested to be on developers project list) – there’s a meeting on Saturday,11a-1p at College of Southern Idaho, Taylor Building, Rm. 276: