There may be a genuine effort on the part of publicity-conscious companies like JLR to avoid being primarily responsible for digging up the rainforest. But an overall increase in demand…
Tag: Mining
The Slowly Mounting Mineral Shock
In minerals, models that minimize or ignore chokepoints and social license realities will steer the world into the very emergencies we want to avoid. We don’t need aspirational scenarios. We…
For National Security, We Need Uranium Mined in America
Our dependence on imported minerals, particularly from adversaries, poses a grave threat to national security. And it will cause serious trouble for key sectors of our economy if something isn’t…
China’s Expanding Strategic Footprint in Libya: Energy, Infrastructure, and a New Gateway to Europe
Libya may appear a fragile and fractured state, but to Chinese planners, it represents a gateway—one with the potential to tie Africa, Europe, and Asia together under a new global…
Mine, Baby, Mine – Right Here in the USA!
Relatively few Americans today have worked on farms or in mines, oilfields, refineries or factories. Few understand where their food, clothing, cell phones, cosmetics and other essential products actually come…
Mine, Baby, Mine!
President Trump is determined to make America not just energy self-sufficient, but energy dominant. The USA already produces more oil and gas than any other nation, and he intends to…
Will 47 revive the U.S. mining industry?
“While the Biden Administration’s mineral policy ‘heavily features international cooperation’,” Wischer says Trump will likely “significantly prioritize” building more mines, processing facilities, and refineries in the U.S.
Permitting Reform: A Strategic Imperative for U.S. National Security and Global Competitiveness
For the incoming administration, prioritizing permitting reform for both transmission and domestic critical mineral development is essential for safeguarding America’s future. Energy infrastructure reform transcends reducing bureaucratic delays; it is…
China Begins Ban of Rare Earth Minerals to the US
The escalating tit-for-tat economic measures by Washington and Beijing come weeks before the swearing in of President-elect Donald Trump for his second term. During his first term, Trump launched a…
China Poised To Cut Off US Military From Key Mineral As America’s Own Reserves Lay Buried Under Red Tape
The uncertainty from permitting and litigation compounds the challenge of reaching production in what’s often a volatile and uncertain market environment for these commodities,
Coming Clean on Clean Energy: It’s a Dirty Business
It is past time to come clean on so-called clean energy. The real-life consequences and detrimental effects of it demand more honest conversations and a thoughtful course of action.
Can American Conservation Survive ‘Green’ Energy?
A future with denser, cleaner urban footprints that preserve natural habitats requires that we continue to decrease the natural resources and land we consume, particularly with our population predicted to peak…
Mining the planet for renewable energy
Reliable energy, human rights, land impacts, air and water pollution, lost wildlife get ignored
Steve Milloy on Biden’s Climate Agenda on FOX Business
Of course, it’s totally cynical. I mean, you know, Joe Biden is not doing this because he’s stupid or the people behind him are stupid. Half this country is for…
Miners Explore Amazon Basin to Support “Green” Energy; New York Times Horrified
The Amazon rainforest in South America has large quantities of copper, tin, nickel, bauxite, manganese, iron ore and gold, making it attractive to mining companies all around the world.
ABC: Miners Ripping up the Wilderness to Feed the Green Energy Revolution
“Everything is now an emergency” – How can governments which declare climate emergencies refuse applications to extract Lithium and other vital minerals from sensitive wilderness areas?
Study quantifies metal supplies needed to reach EU’s climate neutrality goal
Meeting the European Union’s Green Deal goal of climate neutrality by 2050 will require 35 times more lithium and 7 to 26 times the amount of increasingly scarce rare earth…
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…
Private adaptation to Climate risks: Evidence from the world’s largest mining companies
Private companies have in recent years started to disclose information about their exposure and responses to climate risks.
Aussie ABC: “A renewable energy revolution is powering Australia’s $720bn mining and resources industry”
Except when it isn’t: “fossil fuels — particularly gas — would still be needed at many remote resources projects for some time yet.”
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