Imperial Valley

“In the eighties and nineties, 11 geothermal power plants were built to tap the hot water underneath the Salton Sea.”

“600,000 tons of lithium could be extracted from the valley every year, enough to completely transform the global supply chain.”

“This is a new opportunity to reset What the future is, and I think that the lithium industry is a great opportunity for our region. Now, that's not to say that as an environmental justice advocate, I'm endorsing it, but we're looking at the whole picture, righ…”

“They promised the same thing, and now we ended up is with hundreds of people with certificates that are useless. Certificates for solar that, where there are no jobs.”

“The majority of these resources are public resources. It's public land. It's publicly owned minerals, whether the state owns them or whether our local utility owns them.”

“One-fifth of Imperial Valley residents live below the poverty line. 85% are Latino, and many live and work on both sides of the Mexico border. This region has one of the highest unemployment rates in the state.”