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DAILY ENERGY NEWS | 12/17/2021

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When presented with honest evidence, reasonable people should come to the correct conclusion on "renewable" energy mandates.

"After three decades, maybe it is time to admit the obvious: Wind and solar are niche energy sources that will not anytime soon, and probably never, provide anywhere near the energy we need for our $22 trillion industrial economy."

– Stephen Moore, FreedomWorks

For lower-priced EVs, we need a massive amount of lithium, but where are we going to get it?

The Guardian (12/16/21) reports: "Local authorities in western Serbia have suspended a plan that would allow the mining company Rio Tinto to operate a lithium mine, after protests by environmentalists that shook the country’s populist leadership. The mining had been expected to start in the near future, but a town council in Loznica voted to suspend a regional development plan that permitted the excavation of lithium. The vote followed the suspension last week of two key laws in Serbia’s parliament that ecologists said would help the multinational firm start the project. For three consecutive weekends, thousands of protesters in Belgrade and elsewhere in Serbia blocked main roads and bridges to oppose Rio Tinto’s plan to launch a $2.4bn (£1.4bn) mining operation in the country. The protests were the biggest challenge yet to the increasingly autocratic rule of the Serbian president, Aleksandar Vučić. 'Whether there will be a mine depends on people [in western Serbia] and the study on environmental impact assessment,' said the prime minister, Ana Brnabić. 'These are the two conditions that the president stated earlier.'"

When you believe the planet would be better off without people on it, there is no acceptable tradeoff.

MSN (12/17/21) reports: "This metal isn't to trade or to make jewelry out of -- it's lithium, and its value lies in its role in potentially slashing the world's carbon emissions. President Joe Biden's plan to transform the US to clean, low-carbon economy energy depends on switching to electric vehicles, and that means replacing gas with batteries, which are made from critical minerals like lithium. But in the US, doing so is not without controversy. In the US, the major lithium prospect is a large deposit in Thacker Pass, Nevada, and another lithium deposit sits in North Carolina. The Thacker Pass lithium deposit is one of the world's largest, sitting in an ancient, and now-extinct, supervolcano. A proposal to start mining lithium by Lithium Nevada Corporation -- a subsidiary of Lithium Americas Corp. -- was approved by the US Bureau of Land Management in January...'A lot of us understand blowing up a mountain for coal mining is wrong; I think blowing up a mountain for lithium mining is just as wrong,' said Max Wilbert, an environmental organizer who is camping out at Thacker Pass to protest the mine's development. Wilbert cited several reasons he is against the lithium mine: environmental impacts to sage grouse and antelope, potential water pollution for surrounding communities and cultural issues for the local indigenous community, which considers the land on and around Thacker Pass sacred burial grounds. Wilbert is currently camping out in frigid Nevada desert winter conditions in a tribal ceremonial camp, and he and other advocates say they're willing to stand in front of mining machinery to try to stop the project from going forward."

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