Posted on 05/18/2022 7:29:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
NYTimes By Eric Lipton and Dionne Searcey
Feb. 28, 2022
A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sidelined the Chinese owner of one of the world’s largest copper and cobalt mines, a major victory for the Congolese government as it seeks to become a bigger player in the global clean energy revolution. The ruling, which removes Chinese leadership of the mine for at least six months, stems from a dispute over billions of dollars in payments the Congolese government says it is owed by the Chinese owner, China Molybdenum.
Backed by Chinese government financing, the company bought the Tenke Fungurume mine in 2016 from an Arizona-based mining company. The mine figures prominently in the Chinese government’s effort to dominate major supply chains for minerals and metals needed in the production of batteries for electric vehicles. Cobalt is essential for electric vehicles because it extends battery range. It is now trading at a three-year high.
The New York Times reported in November that employees at the mine had complained about a dramatic decline in worker safety under the Chinese ownership, including claims by safety inspectors that workers had been assaulted after raising concerns and been offered bribes to cover up accidents. The company disputed those claims, suggesting they were part of a broader effort to discredit it.
Congo’s president, Felix Tshisekedi, last year named a commission to investigate allegations that China Molybdenum might have cheated the Congolese government out of royalty payments from the mine. The legal action on Monday, by the Commercial Court of Lubumbashi, came after the country’s state-owned mining enterprise had sought the removal of the mine’s Chinese management. The court ruling, reviewed by The Times, leaves a third-party administrator in charge of the mine for at least six months
In this case it is determined to be pretty low. Spontaneous fires in gas powered cars occur at much higher rates than in electric.
It is interesting that you are insulting others here while spreading nonsense. You are the one who needs his intelligence evaluated.
In 25 years of firefighting would you like to know how many gas-powered cars that my crews and I responded to which spontaneously caught on fire. None! You do remember the NBC Dateline faked Chevy Pickup fire broadcast, don't you? They couldn't get a Chevy pickup to catch on fire even after plowing into one with another vehicle. They had to use carefully placed incendiary devices to cause them to catch on fire.
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/exploding-chevy-pickups-and-nbc-coverup/
If you choose to believe the fake statistics and outright propaganda released by electric car proponents that is your business. But vehicles just sitting in a garage spontaneously igniting is a recent phenomenon associated with electric vehicles so much so that manufacturers have had to warn their customers to park the cars outside during charging and even after charging. It is a joke.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chevy-bolt-ev-recall-battery-warning-fire-charging-park-outdoors/
I was listening to KFI radio yesterday and the hosts mentioned that all the production of various minerals need for car batteries produced would be enough only for a country the size of England and that we have almost 5 times their population.
GM asks those that own one of their electric cars called the Bolt to charge it outside away from your home so you know it must be safe....!
They must be safe cars if GM makes them as they have a track record of producing safe cars.....
GM asks Chevy Bolt EV owners not to charge overnight or park inside after 2 more fires
https://electrek.co/2021/07/14/gm-chevy-bolt-ev-owners-not-charge-overnight-park-inside-garages-fires/
Let us not forget the ship that recently sank in the Atlantic Ocean after and EV car caught on fire.
Is open pit copper mining environmentally sensitive?
No, but the mining of it is....................
Good...........................
An electric may be ok for urban use, but the technology will never be achieved that will allow a fully exhausted lithium car battery to be full recharged in five minutes. If It could be done, it would have already been done.
I can tow a 6,000 lb trailer from Raleigh NC to Jacksonville FL (450 miles) in around 7 hours stopping once for fuel. That ain't happening with an EV.
(What I just said could not be posted on Twitter)
Thanks for the link.
I notice that NONE of the 5 Cobalt producing companies are listed in the USA. Two are private and three are in China.
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