{"id":181082,"date":"2025-09-30T22:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181082\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T22:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:44:07","slug":"us-to-take-stake-in-lithium-americas-to-boost-nevada-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181082\/","title":{"rendered":"US to Take Stake in Lithium Americas to Boost Nevada Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The US government agreed to acquire a stake in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/LAC:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Lithium Americas Corp.<\/a>, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said, giving a boost to the Canadian company as it develops its Thacker Pass lithium project in Nevada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The US will take a 5% stake in the Vancouver-based company, as well as a 5% stake in the company\u2019s mining project of the largest lithium deposit in the US, Wright said in a Bloomberg Television interview on Tuesday, adding the move was necessary to help counter China\u2019s control of the lithium market. The US-listed shares of Lithium Americas jumped as much as 41% in postmarket trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US government agreed to acquire a stake in Lithium Americas Corp., Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,95,1007,7172,893,91675,91676,16425,85300,91674,7647,714,61,60651],"class_list":{"0":"post-181082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-construction","13":"tag-general-motors-co","14":"tag-government","15":"tag-greener-living","16":"tag-hyperdrive","17":"tag-july-sarl-caen","18":"tag-lithium-americas-corp","19":"tag-mp-materials-corp","20":"tag-nevada","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-technology","23":"tag-wind-turbines"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}