Rio Tinto pauses plans for $3.7b lithium mine but Serbians remain concerned
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-18/rio-tinto-jadar-valley-mine-paused-amid-huge-opposition/106020944

Transnational companies in environmental conflicts: Rio Tinto, anti-mining resistance in Serbia, and the contradictions of Europeanization . "We reconstruct the anti-mining against a lithium mine in Serbia."
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42597-024-00114-5
#GlobalNorth #GreenExtractivism #lithium #REEs #Serbia #EU #cars #EV #ElectricVehicles #extractivism #ResistanceMovement #water #pollution

Full article: ‘A Dead Sea of Solar Panels:’ solar enclosure, extractivism and the progressive degradation of the California desert #solar #greenextractivism #paper #environment

https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2388051

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