Utah hits pause on mineral company’s southern Utah lithium project, page-141

https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2024/06/07/green-river-lithium-project-got/

"""Why the state engineer changed her mind about a lithium mining project

An Australia-based company wants to try out an untested technique for extracting the metal, claiming it uses less water."""

UNTESTED??? BUT THEN-----

""'14,000 acre-feet of groundwater per year from a deep aquifer on May 1. One acre-foot of water can sustain two Utah households for a year.""'

read the article it's a drought , that much water use per year in that "untested," tech is outrageous, this don't fly away by night this is serious imo

We welcome this opportunity to have the record reviewed, assessed and scrutinized,” said Kyle Roerink, executive director of the environmental nonprofit Great Basin Water Network. “The region’s legacy of blowouts, radioactive pollution and aridity warrant reconsideration to prevent environmental degradation and uphold the public welfare.”

oh dear no quick fix solution here sadly and fair enough I suppose after all we all live on the earth,??

in the END, tooo much water use and possible chemicals in ASN DLE by the sounds of it here oh dear.