To the editor: Though the mining of lithium for rising applied sciences like new electric-car batteries remains to be controversial due to the consequences on the setting, mining of this useful mineral is a certain factor.
Nevertheless, for these of us who dwell close to the receding Salton Sea, which is seen as having main potential for lithium extraction, the well being points and lack of wildlife habitat trump all different issues. Poisonous mud that now harms the native inhabitants will finally attain metropolitan areas, so the well being of the ocean ought to concern all of us.
For many years, thousands and thousands have been spent on research and proposals, that are mired in dozens of county, state and federal bureaucracies, none of which seem to have any decision-making energy.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, please make the funding of those lithium mining tasks contingent upon their investing within the restoration of the Salton Sea. Let’s begin with the importation of water from the Sea of Cortez or Pacific Ocean by way of canals or pipelines.
Wealthy firms will make a fortune mining lithium, so require them to share the wealth and clear up the mess.
Kay Wolff, La Quinta
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