More than 70 percent of the world’s cobalt, sometimes called the blood diamond of electric vehicle batteries, comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Copper, “The New Oil”?
Guest “There’s copper in them thar hills” by David Middleton Copper Is Critical for America’s New Energy Economy By Andy Kireta, Jr.October 18, 2023 The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) new…
US Turns to Country Notorious for Child Labor and Unsafe Mines to Source Its EV Ambitions
the U.S. is seeking to spend taxpayer dollars to develop cobalt supply chains from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country which is known for high prevalence of…
Cobalt Carnage, Child Labor and Ecological Destruction
They labor ten to twelve hours a day in sweltering heat and toxic mud, water and dust, in enormous pits hundreds of feet deep – hacking at rocky walls and…
Joe Rogan: EXPOSES The Battery Mining Industry!! EXTREME Problems in The Harshest Conditions !?!
Joe Rogan & Siddharth Kara discuss the insane contains that the people in the Congo face while mining Cobalt.
The Exploitation of Green Energy
Those subsidies are providing financial incentives to the developing countries mining for those green materials to continue their exploitation of poor people and environmental degradation of their landscapes.
Biden Maladministration Now Cancelling Mining Leases
As if the unlawful cancellation of oil & gas lease sales wasn’t bad enough, Brandon et al., 2021-2022 are now cancelling mining leases that would have led to increased domestic…
Texas State Geologist Scott Tinker: The Bad Assumptions Underpinning COP26 and the Impending Energy Train Wreck
Guest “Reality can be a harsh teacher” by David Middleton The world is already in an “energy crisis” of sorts due to the tremendous misallocation of capital from functioning energy…
Weakest link to EV growth is the material supply chain
The worldwide plans for EV domination of the vehicle population are like having the plans to build a large house without sufficient materials being available to ever finish the house.
How ‘Iron Man’ bacteria could help protect the environment
But Reguera’s team challenged that thinking and found Geobacter to be effective cobalt “miners,” extracting the metal from rust without letting it penetrate their cells and kill them. Rather, the…
Mean and Unclean: Electric Cars Powered by Child Labor in Africa
The makers of wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles and other supposedly environment-friendly technologies — as well as the green activists, politicians and bureaucrats who promote and support them with…
Why don’t these lives matter?
The world’s top producer of cobalt is the Democratic Republic of Congo, where some 40,000 children as young as four toil with their parents for less than $2 a day…
The Dirty Secrets of “Clean” Electric Vehicles
The widespread view that fossil fuels are “dirty” and renewables such as wind and solar energy and electric vehicles are “clean” has become a fixture of mainstream media and policy…
#coronavirus #covid-19 Let’s quarantine some fake corona and energy news
Junk science and scare stories stampede countries into taking drastic, unnecessary action Paul Driessen Some 40,000 children slave away in Chinese-operated Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) mines, digging out cobalt…
Americans reluctant to join the EV train
By Ronald Stein Founder and Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure of PTS Advance, headquartered in Irvine, California We’re constantly being bombarded with the EV movement, but Americans must have a…
Green Killers: Congo’s Miners Dying to Feed World’s Hunger for Electric Cars
From The Global Warming Policy Foundation Date: 21/03/19 Christina Lamb, The Sunday Times Exploited by Chinese firms, workers as young as nine risk their lives to feed the world’s growing…
Child miners aged four living a hell on Earth so YOU can drive an electric car: Awful human cost in squalid Congo cobalt mine that Michael Gove didn’t consider in his ‘clean’ energy crusade
From The Daily Mail Sky News investigated the Katanga mines and found Dorsen, 8, and Monica, 4 The pair were working in the vast mines of the Democratic Republic of…
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