Sisolak ? CCP

Photo credit: Rachel Aston, Las Vegas Review-Journal

We already know Northshore Steve Sisolak fast-tracks government contracts for shady companies, but it turns out he’s propping up the interests of the Chinese Communist Party in the name of “clean energy,” too.

ICYMI: Steve Sisolak Is Backing a Massive Lithium Mine in Nevada. So Is a Chinese Company With Communist Leaders.

“Northshore Steve Sisolak must immediately explain to Nevada voters why he approved $8.5 million for a company that directly benefits America’s largest competitor and adversary, the Chinese Communist Party,” said RGA Spokeswoman Maddie Anderson.  

Free Beacon:
Democratic governor Steve Sisolak is backing a foreign company’s plan to deliver America’s green energy future through a massive Nevada lithium mine. That company’s largest shareholder is a Chinese enterprise led by known Chinese Communist Party members, prompting concern that the project could ultimately benefit America’s top adversary.

Sisolak in September 2020 approved $8.5 million in tax abatements for Lithium Americas, a Canadian company that intends to mine tens of thousands of tons of lithium—the key component in electric vehicle batteries—from a site in northern Nevada.

Both Sisolak and Cortez Masto have argued that lithium mining in Nevada will accelerate America’s clean energy economy by securing a domestic supply chain for crucial minerals, a sector that China dominates. But those arguments ignore Lithium Americas’s largest shareholder—Chinese mineral giant Ganfeng, which holds a seat on Lithium Americas’s board and “may … be in a position to affect the company’s operations and direction,” according to Lithium Americas’s most recent annual report.

Neither Sisolak nor Cortez Masto returned requests for comment.

Read the full report here.