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Environmentalists warn of intent to sue over snail species living near Nevada lithium mine_我的网站

一 |     기사 내용을 바탕으로 AI를 통해 제작된 일러스트. 경기일보 AI 뉴스 이미지 인천 제물포구 북성동 월미도 놀이공원에서 ‘디스코팡팡’을 타던 30대 이용객이 놀이기구 밖으로 떨어져 다친 사고(경기일보 24일자 인터넷판 보도)와 관련, 경찰이 안전관리상 과실이 있었는지 확인하기 위한 조사에 착수했다. 26일 인천 제물포경찰서에 따르면 월미도 디스코팡팡 이용객 추락 사고와 관련해 업무상 과실치상 혐의 적용 여부를 검토하기 위한 입건 전 조사를 시작했다. 앞서 23일 오후 9시23분께 인천 제물포구 북성동 놀이공원에서 디스코팡팡을 타고 있던 30대 A씨가 운행 도중 몸이 뒤로 넘어가면서 난간 밖으로 떨어졌다. A씨는 머리와 목 부위에 통증을 호소해 119구급대에 의해 병원으로 옮겨져 치료를 받았고, 생명에는 지장이 없는 것으로 전해졌다. A씨는 경찰 조사에서 “신발 한쪽이 벗겨져 다시 신으려고 한쪽 팔을 풀었는데 순간적으로 몸이 뒤로 넘어갔다”고 진술했다. 경찰은 놀이기구 운행 과정에서 안전수칙이 제대로 지켜졌는지와 사고 당시 운행 강도 및 조작 방식 등에 문제가 없었는지 등을 확인할 방침이다. 또 A씨를 상대로 정확한 사고 경위를 조사한 뒤 당시 놀이기구를 조작한 DJ와 시설 책임자 등을 상대로 업무상 과실 여부를 살펴볼 예정이다. 경찰 관계자는 “놀이기구 특성상 원심력과 반동으로 이용객이 난간 너머로 떨어진 것으로 보고 있다”며 “사고 당시 운행 모습이 담긴 영상을 확보해 정확한 경위를 조사할 예정”이라고 말했다. ● 관련기사: 인천 월미도 놀이공원서 디스코팡팡 타던 30대 바깥으로 튕겨 나가 https://kyeonggi.com/article/20260824580479。    RENO, Nev. -- In an ongoing legal battle with the Biden administration over a Nevada lithium mine, environmentalists are poised to return to court with a new approach accusing U.S. wildlife officials of dragging their feet on a year-old petition seeking endangered species status for a tiny snail that lives nearby. The Western Watersheds Project said in its formal notice of intent to sue that the government's failure to list the Kings River pyrg as a threatened or endangered species could push it to the brink of extinction.It says the only place the snail is known to exist is in 13 shallow springs near where Lithium Americas is building its Thacker Pass Mine near the Oregon line.President Joe Biden has made ramped-up domestic production of lithium a key part of his blueprint for a greener future. Worldwide demand for the critical element in the manufacture of electric vehicle batteries is projected to increase six-fold by 2030 compared with 2020.Past lawsuits filed by conservationists and tribes have taken aim — largely unsuccessfully — at the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management, which they accused of cutting regulatory corners to expedite approval of the mine itself in 2021.The new approach targets the department's Fish and Wildlife Service, charged with ensuring protection of fish and wildlife habitat surrounding the mine site 200 miles (321 kilometers) northeast of Reno.Western Watersheds Project says groundwater pumping associated with the mine’s 370-foot-deep (113-meter) open pit will reduce or eliminate flows to the springs that support the snails.In the formal 90-day notice of intent to sue sent to Interior Secretary Deborah Haaland last month, they say her agency's failure to make a 12-month finding on the listing petition filed in September 2022 is a violation of the Endangered Species Act.“The Fish and Wildlife Service isn’t supposed to sit on its hands while species are in imminent danger of extinction, but the fact that it hasn’t met the deadlines on the pyrg raises questions about why they might be delaying,” Adam Bronstein, the project's Nevada director, said in a statement.“It would be absolutely unacceptable if the Biden Administration is waiting until it’s too late to save the species so as not to interrupt the construction of a lithium mine," he said.Interior Department spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz said in an email Thursday the department had no comment on the group's intent to sue.Western Watersheds Project said time is of the essence because the snails were imperiled even before any new mining was contemplated due to livestock grazing, round-building and, increasingly, the anticipated impacts of climate change.“The species has no regulatory protection whatsoever ... because it is not an endangered species, or even a Bureau of Land Management-listed Sensitive species, and has no state law protections," the notice said.Conservationists and tribal lawyers claimed a partial victory last year when U.S. District Judge Miranda Du concluded the bureau failed to fully comply with new interpretations of the 1872 Mining Law. But she stopped short of blocking the project, allowing construction to begin as the bureau shored up plans for disposal of waste rock.The opponents appealed, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Du's ruling in July.The tiny snail’s shell is less than 2 millimeters (0.08 inches) tall. By comparison, a U.S. nickel coin is 1.95 millimeters thick. They've managed to survive in isolated springs, which are remnants of extensive waterways that have covered what is now dry land only to recede many times over the last 2 million years, the listing petition said.The project says three of the springs are within a 1-mile (1.6-kilometer) buffer zone, the bureau established in its review of potential impacts of a 10-foot (3-meter) drawdown of the groundwater table, and the rest are less than 4 miles (4.8 kilometers) away."As drought frequency increases with climate change, the Kings River pyrg will be at high risk of extinction,” the letter to Haaland said. It notes that the Nevada Department of Wildlife considers the pyrg “extremely vulnerable to climate change.”Lithium Americas had no comment on the notice of intent to sue the Fish and Wildlife Service, spokesman Tim Crowley said. The company said when the listing petition was filed last year that it's done extensive work to design a project that avoids impacts to the springs.The Bureau of Land Management said earlier its environmental review of the project that it didn't detect any of the snails "within the direct footprint of the project or any area likely to be adversely affected by the project.”。

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