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February 6, 2024 29 mins

Building a mine requires a substantial amount of land. This episode investigates the tactics used by Piedmont Lithium to accumulate a critical amount of land for its operations. We take listeners to visit burned-out houses and empty lots and to meet the neighbors who sold and those who remain.

Mining for the Climate is a co-creation of Nate Otjen and Juan Manuel Rubio. It’s a production of Blue Lab at Princeton University.

Episode Credits

Written by Max Widmann

Hosted by Max Widmann

Sound design by Juan Manuel Rubio

Research and production team: Max Widmann, Alex Norbrook, Grace Wang, Nate Otjen and Juan Manuel Rubio

Music by Purple Planet (www.purple-planet.com), Shake that Little Foot and Pryor Meadows

Shady Grove by Shake That Little Foot is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License

Audio Clip Credits

Senator Thom Tillis at Piedmont Lithium HQ Open House, Piedmont Lithium, 2022

Gaston County Board of Commissioners October 24, 2023 Meeting, Gaston County Government, 2023

Copyright 2023 Nate Otjen, Juan Manuel Rubio and Blue Lab. All rights reserved.

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