The Hunger for Lithium reading

'Green' Extractivism and its Discontents
The ‘Alterlives’ of Green Extractivism: Lithium Mining and Exhausted Ecologies in the Atacama Desert, James J. A. Blair et al, 2023
https://journals.openedition.org/poldev/5284

Mainstream media:
‘We were not consulted’: Native Americans fight lithium mine on site of 1865 massacre
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/13/native-americans-1865-massacre-lithium-mine-thacker-pass
Around 85% of all lithium reserves are on or near indigenous land.

Federal government urged to expand critical minerals list as clean energy transition drives global increase in demand
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-10/critical-minerals-list-expand-nickel-lithium-copper-clean-energy/102939094
#Australia #CriticalMinerals #lithium #mining #impacts #Extractivism #GreenExtractivism #IndigenousPeoples #engery #batteries #transition #climate #biodiversity

‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/02/it-was-an-accident-the-scientists-who-have-turned-humid-air-into-renewable-power

#Engery #RenewableEnergy #TeslaButNotExplodingCarsOne

Recently I shared news about the potential transformation of two UK steel producing sites to make Green Steel using arc furnaces. This article talks about the general drive in Europe to create new plants, including one in Sweden that will operate using hydrogen produced locally using renewable electricity.

#GoodNews #Steel #GreenSteel #Sweden #Hydrogen #Engery #Green #Eco #Manufacture

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64538296