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Environment & Energy

TexasTowelie

(116,808 posts) Thu Aug 8, 2024, 11:43 PM Aug 2024

Plans for Europe's largest lithium mine spark protests in Serbia - Reuters

Farmers and activists in Serbia have sparked nationwide protests to stop the building of Rio Tinto's first European lithium mine, warning it would pollute their land and endanger public health.

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Plans for Europe's largest lithium mine spark protests in Serbia - Reuters (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2024 OP

Portugal had the same concerns Inkey Aug 2024 #1

We are not going to mine our way out of extreme global heating; nor will we do so by pretending the laws... NNadir Aug 2024 #2

Inkey

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1. Portugal had the same concerns

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Fri Aug 9, 2024, 12:31 AM

Aug 2024

with its farmers and farm land and
water resources getting polluted.

NNadir

(34,665 posts)

2. We are not going to mine our way out of extreme global heating; nor will we do so by pretending the laws...

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Fri Aug 9, 2024, 01:33 AM

Aug 2024

...of thermodynamics are trivialities rather than the very embodiment of reality.

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