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The auto industry's switch to electric vehicles is driving up demand and prices for lithium. It's also creating a huge incentive to squeeze more lithium out of any supply available,

NPR 

High demand for electric vehicles send lithium mines into overdrive

Europe is facing disruptions to its energy supplies. The Middle East and Africa are grappling with grain shortages. 

Arab News

Re-imagining global connections to build economic resilience

After a macro discussion of the hard rock world we get into specifics of what attracted these two Aussie lithium pioneers to get involved with Green Technology Metals and why developing lithium in Canada will be critical to the future of battery supply chain development in North America and the EU. 

The Global Lithium Podcast

The state of the hard rock universe from what is happening in Western Australia to developments in Canada, Brazil, and Africa

Tobacco waste is one of the biggest sources of plastic pollution on the planet.
Trillions of cigarette butts are tossed, flicked and chucked away each year, littering the earth's soil and seas with toxic chemicals and harmful man-made plastics.
However, this is fast being matched by another stream of waste: e-cigarettes.
Marketed as a less unhealthy alternative to tobacco smoking, vaping is posing a colossal threat to the environment.

Euronews

Vapes are a 'new threat' to the planet, experts warn

Rising Demand for Battery-Operated Material-Handling Equipment and Automation in Various Industries Fuels Sector

Global Newswire

Global Battery Technology Market Report 2022

Australia, Canada, Chile and other countries will have to step up their supplies of lithium to the US if they are to have any chance of meeting the forecast demand of 300,000 tonnes by 2026.

Australian Financial Review

Why Australia miners will play a big role in Biden’s green push

Pressure on carmakers in the EV battery supply chain is only building. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) faced with an 8-fold increase in lithium prices, convulsions on the nickel market and ever-present worries about cobalt supply from the Congo, are being forced to look downstream to secure supply for their ambitious expansion plans.

Mining.com

Graphite poised to do a lithium 

AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V, a metals supplier in the Netherlands, has said that its AMG Liva unit has started operating its first hybrid energy storage system. It combines lithium batteries and vanadium redox flow batteries at a facility owned by the group's AMG Graphite subsidiary in Hauzenberg, Germany.

PV Magazine

Lithium-vanadium battery for renewables storage

MIT researchers have made a new discovery that could pave the way for solid-state lithium battery development.

Oil Price

MIT Reports Breakthrough In Solid-State Lithium Battery Development

Responsible mineral supply chains will revolutionize commodities, protect the climate, and advance environmental justice.

Supply Chain Traceability: Looking Beyond Greenhouse Gases

Salty water gurgles quietly through a pipe across a dry lakebed and into a Caribbean-blue pond. It's carrying an element that is crucial to the electric car revolution and, suddenly, one of the world's hottest commodities: lithium.

High demand and prices for lithium send mines into overdrive

The recent rise in aluminum, copper, and nickel price have created some short-term uncertainty as companies finalize their long-term contracts for 2023. Earlier this month, all three metals rose on the back of rumors that China might begin easing zero-COVID restrictions.

Nickel Prices Could Be Set For A Rally

Companies are already staking their lithium claims in Alberta

Lithium extraction could be a boon for Alberta, but it comes with environmental uncertainties

The race is on to produce more lithium in the United States. Rare earth metals like lithium are a crucial component in electric vehicle batteries.

 Nevada enters the race for lithium with new mines. But is there a dark side to our electric future?

A new study shows that the more divided a community is, the higher the residents’ exposure to hazardous metals and particulates.

Wired

Air Quality Mirrors the Racial Segregation of US Neighborhoods

An all-3D printed lithium metal battery with robust cycle stability and ultrahigh areal energy density has become reality.

Scientists develop high-density, all-3D printed Li-metal battery

Labs around the world have been pursuing this breakthrough for years

Interesting Engineering

New type of rechargeable lithium battery now made possible thanks to scientists solving this mystery

His had once been a thriving neighbourhood of neat houses and tree-shaded avenues. Now his cherished home is surrounded by the wreckage of demolished houses, separated from the sprawling pit by a concrete barrier.

News24

'I wait only for death' - residents despair as DRC cobalt mine seeks to expand accreditation

This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability.

Forbes

A Green Hydrogen Bet, GM Expects EV Profits By 2025 And The World’s Population Hits 8 Billion

Chilean miner SQM, the world's second largest lithium producer, posted on Wednesday a ten-fold jump in third-quarter net profit, boosted by skyrocketing prices and record high sales of the metal that is a key component in rechargeable batteries.



Reuters

Chile's SQM profits jump more than ten-fold on lithium price surge

In July 2022, Wallbridge announced that it would be selling its portfolio of nickel projects to Archer to focus on its core gold mining assets.

Wallbridge completes nickel asset sale to Archer; stock rises

Engineers and chemists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are working together to combine a powerful new electron microscopy technique and data [&#8230;]

Batteries’ ‘guts’ reveal details on why they fail

The world's second largest lithium miner also forecast global demand of the battery metal to grow this year by at least 40%.

SQM expects high lithium prices to stay put

The updated indicated resource comes to 10.6 million tonnes grading 0.88% lithium oxide.

Rock Tech updates Georgia Lake lithium resources with lower grades

The claims are adjacent to and near Sayona’s North American Lithium (NAL) project that is returning to production early next year.

Troilus sells claims to Sayona for $30 million, retains 2% NSR royalty

According to the company, a “significant amount” of the net proceeds will be used for advancing work related to the planned exploration and development program.

Talon Metals closes $28 million bought deal for Tamarack nickel project

Nickel briefly jumped by its 15% daily limit, as an unconfirmed report about a blast at a nickel plant in Indonesia sparked the biggest rally since a historic short squeeze in March.

Bloomberg

Nickel Briefly Surges by Limit as Report of Blast Spooks Market

US-based researchers have combined two complementary techniques—X-ray imaging and neutron imaging—to peer inside crevices and mineral-rich deposits inside meteorites.

Scientists dig for answers inside mineral-rich meteorites

The United States military has been quietly soliciting applications for Canadian mining projects that want American public funding through a major national security initiative.

U.S. military weighs funding mining projects in Canada amid rivalry with China

FPX Nickel (TSXV: RPX; OTC: FPOCF) reports an upgraded resource estimate for the Baptiste nickel project in central British Columbia. The new [&#8230;]

FPX Nickel delivers better resource grade for Baptiste project

Jason Mitchell argues that the war in Ukraine has shown why it is absolutely vital that the United States and the Western world develop their own supply chain for rare earth elements.

Mining Technology

The Western world must end China’s stranglehold of rare earths

The goal is to learn how the young earth acquired the ingredients essential for life.

Europe has turned its sights on distant Kazakhstan as it casts around for supplies of rare earth metals and clean hydrogen to meet its green economy targets.

Markets Insider

Rare Earths And Hydrogen At The Core Of New EU-Kazakhstan Trade Deals

A facility described as the U.K.’s “first large-scale lithium refinery” will be located in the north of England, with those behind the project hoping its output will hit roughly 50,000 metric tons each year once up and running.

CNBC

UK’s first large-scale lithium refinery chooses location as race for ‘white gold’ intensifies

Mining People: FPX Nickel, Pan Global, SolGold, Fission 3, Inventus, Wolverine Resources

Lithium is proving to be largely immune from the volatility that has rocked commodity markets as prices soar in the face of a looming global recession, prompting Macquarie to deliver another round of upgrades for producers and developers of the battery metal.

Lithium prices prove ‘immune’ to recession anxiety

Canada Nickel has announced improvements to its carbon capture process, which opens the doors to the production of net zero nickel.

Carbon Herald

Net Zero Nickel May Soon Be A Reality With CCS Technology

A recent report by IDTechEx states that the lithium-ion battery market will reach over $430 billion by 2033.

Li-ion battery market to reach $430bn by 2033

A team from the University of Cambridge, working with colleagues from Austria, found a new way to make a possible replacement for rare-earth magnets: tetrataenite, a ‘cosmic magnet’ that takes millions of years to develop naturally in meteorites

University of Cambridge

Researchers have discovered a potential new method for making the high-performance magnets used in wind turbines and electric cars without the need for rare earth elements, which are almost exclusively sourced in China.

The Cesano valley is rich in the essential element used to make electric car batteries, now engineers have to come up with a way of extracting it

The Times

Lithium galore! Italian town finds huge deposit of vital electric car metal

Nouveau Monde Graphite (TSXV: NOU; NYSE: NMG) closed its lates $50 million private placement thanks to the backing of Mitsui, Pallinghurst Bond, [&#8230;]

Nouveau Monde Graphite raises US$50M from three backers

Canada has just upped the ante in the global competition to secure critical minerals.

Canada slams the door on China in critical minerals race

Factories that typically churn out bathroom tiles are retooling manufacturing lines to benefit from still-surging prices of the raw material.

Lithium Frenzy Sees China Ceramics Hub Refocus on Battery Metals

Canadian government ordered three Chinese companies to divest from Canadian companies involved in critical minerals exploration based on national security concerns.

Canadian lithium juniors assess legal options after Chinese investors ordered to divest

Magna is exploring the restart of a past-producing underground mine and adding an open-pit operation to the site, also known as Crean Hill.

Magna plans drilling at Denison nickel-copper project after ‘considerable’ resource estimate 

Today, attending the COP27 in Egypt, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Alikhan Smailov, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing a partnership between the EU and Kazakhstan.

European Commission

European Union concludes a strategic partnership with Kazakhstan on raw materials, batteries and renewable hydrogen

The West has fallen behind China in the race to secure copper supplies due to its short-sighted approach to commodities and energy policy, warned one of the industry’s leading experts.



City A.M.

West faces copper crisis as China dominates key markets, warns expert

The mining chief says the industry can deliver the metals needed for electric cars, but at a price


BHP boss Mike Henry: The world won’t run out of metal for the EV revolution

Canada has just upped the ante in the global competition to secure critical minerals.



Mining & Metals | Battery Metals

From Paris to London, city officials are limiting hours of holiday illumination.
From Paris to London, officials in cities across Europe are limiting hours of holiday illumination, and many have switched to more energy-efficient LED lights or renewable energy sources as high energy prices bite consumers in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Sober or bright? Holidays in Europe during energy crunch

The departure of Boris Johnson as prime minister in September was inconvenient for Sir Ian Blatchford. As chief executive of the Science Museum Group for more than a decade, about 40 per cent of his funding comes from the state, and building relationships with those at the centre of government is a priority.

Financial Times

'If the arts world is not careful, it will be eaten alive by its own piety'

Wearing bulletproof vests and carrying guns, the gendarmes appear suddenly in the middle of farm fields misted by morning rain. They stand behind two fences equipped with security cameras and overhead lights, looking every bit like prison guards. But there is no prison for miles.


The New York Times

French Police Guard Water as Seasonal Drought Intensifies

If your idea of a winter vacation means trading snowmen for sand castles, it's time to make your Caribbean escape. From Anguilla to Turks and Caicos, new hotels have sprung up across the region, including an off-the-grid, eco-chic hideaway, a getaway beside one of the largest reef systems in the world, and a resort steps from what's being billed as "the first world-class theme park in the Caribbean." 

7 New Escapes in the Caribbean

Industrial strategy is experiencing a renaissance. Provoked by multiple crises -- financial, climate and health -- countries around the world are investing heavily in promoting economic growth and resilience. 

Industrial strategy demands a new deal with the private sector

The World Economic Forum reports that one in nine - 844 million people - lack access to water. Ten percent of the world's population lives without safe drinking water. World Health Organization data suggests that 40 million children face high water insecurity levels. The lack of water, and available water being unsafe, is a significant issue worldwide.

How Technology Can Mitigate Flooding And Secure Water Infrastructure

Climate activists glued themselves to the tarmac at Berlin Brandenberg Airport (BER) and blocked both runways on November 24, 2022.

When Does Climate Activism Become Climate Terrorism?

With Copenhagen due to host the UIA World Congress of Architects, the city aims to set an example for how architecture can help to reduce the impact of climate change.

Voted the world's most sustainable city by TimeOut in 2021, the Danish capital features buildings and public spaces designed to be both eco-conscious and climate-resilient.

Dezeen

https://www.dezeen.com/2022/11/28/copenhagen-addresses-global-warming-with-climate-resilient-architecture/

Top Mexican officials were in Texas earlier this month, laying out their new strategy for natural gas.

Mexico’s CFE Teaming Up with International Firms to Build Energy Security

The Biden administration has announced its intention to compete more vigorously with China for Southeast Asia’s EV market.

The Diplomat

The Rationale Behind the US-ASEAN Electric Vehicle Initiative

As cruise companies head into their busiest season, they say they have ambitious plans to curb greenhouse emissions and find cleaner sources of fuel. But critics say the progress is too slow.

How Green is Your Cruise?

Hydrogen is recognised as an important future energy vector for applications in many sectors. Hydrogen is an indirect climate gas which induces perturbations of methane, ozone, and stratospheric water vapour, three potent greenhouse gases. Using data from a state-of-the-art global numerical model, here we calculate the hydrogen climate metrics as a function of the considered time-horizon and derive a 100-year Global Warming Potential of 12.8 ± 5.2 and a 20-year Global Warming Potential of 40.1 ± 24.1. 

Nature

Climate benefit of a future hydrogen economy

With the challenge being reducing carbon footprint while, at the same time, expanding energy output, here we take a look at how data can solve this issue

Sustainability Magazine

Why data is key to unlocking secure and sustainable energy

If Qatar is one of the world's wealthiest nations per capita, it is also one of  ..

Read more at:
https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/oil-and-gas/energy-rich-qatar-faces-fast-rising-climate-change-risks-at-home/95809175?redirect=1

Economic Times

Energy-rich Qatar faces fast-rising climate change risks at home 

Authorities in Kyiv have said repair work on the power grid is now in its "final phase." Millions had been left without power following Russian strikes targeting critical infrastructure on Wednesday.

DW News

Kyiv administration says power restored

In many ways, the high energy prices of 2022 are inadvertently helping renewables, as they are the cheapest form of energy and are not dependent on the usual players (Fracking, OPEC, Russia etc.).

CleanTechnica

High Fossil Energy Prices Could Paradoxically Imperil The Transition To Renewable Energy If Voters Get Cold Feet


Residents complain they are being used as ‘lab rats and guinea pigs’ as hydrogen fuel experiment in Ellesmere Port looms

The Telegraph

The town where boilers will be ripped out for net zero trial

The dream of a global economy powered by renewable hydrogen is coming into sharper focus, except for one key sticking point. Getting hydrogen from one place to another adds costs. Energy loss is also an issue. An inexpensive, efficient, and sustainable transportation medium would fill the gap, and apparently green ammonia is first in line.



Green Ammonia To Solve Hydrogen Transportation Conundrum

The head of Ukraine's state-run nuclear energy firm said on Sunday there were signs that Russian forces might be preparing to leave the vast Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant which they seized in March soon after their invasion.

Ukraine nuclear boss says he sees signs Russia may leave occupied plant

Official focus on fun, fashion and energy is boosting companies specialising in reactor restarts and warm winter clothes.

Turtlenecks and nuclear power return to favour in Japan

Monica Ponce and Russell Honderd are two of five farmers who own and operate the Love is Love Cooperative Farm in Mansfield, Georgia. A program called the Working Farms Fund made it possible. The program buys farms at risk of being lost to development and helps farmers become landowners in three to five years.

Conservation Fund Program Supports Local Farms And Local Food Near Metro Areas

Since the Rio de Janeiro Declaration of 1992, government representatives have flocked to one Conferences of the Parties (COP) after the next in an attempt to halt global warming, in vain.

The Conversation

Is liberal governance unable to deal with global threats?

Twelve years before host nation Qatar took to the pitch against Ecuador for the opening game of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, kafala, a system of employment sponsorship for foreign workers was already casting an ominous shadow across the event.

After securing the bid for Qatar and succumbing to a bribery scandal related to the hosting rights for that very country, former FIFA president Sepp Blatter called the selection “a bad choice.”

Qatar’s migrant labor system is bigger than the World Cup

Youth empowerment has become the hallmark venture of the Association and are impacting knowledge and  skills within and outside our bases to encourage self reliance among the weak and less privileged in our wider society. Therefore the event would get another great milestone in the series of achievements recorded by NAFOWA nation wide with our  motto:   Service to humanity’

The Sun

NAFOWA President restates commitment to youth, women empowerment

The level of hate directed at the LGBTQ community in the U.S. has reached a point that it poses a security threat to Canadians, according to a former senior-ranking intelligence official. 

"Those messages from the United States, their volume, the fact that they're being amplified by hostile actors … [it] has the potential of affecting those communities here in Canada," said Artur Wilczynski, who until recently was the associate deputy chief of signals intelligence at the Communications Security Establishment, Canada's cryptologic agency. 

How the American anti-LGBTQ hate machine is posing a threat to Canadians

The Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss has voted overwhelmingly to recommend that there should be a constitutional referendum to amend the Constitution with a view to protecting biodiversity.

Call to protect biodiversity and nature in Constitution

Happy Thanksgiving Eve, Data Sheet readers. A quick note that we’ll be stuffing our face with turkey on Thursday and (hopefully) reveling in a World Cup victory over England on Friday, among other activities. As such, we’ll be off those two days and return on Monday.

Fortune

Will shoppers spend big this holiday season? Tech executives and analysts are oddly unsure headed into Black Friday

Cabanor International, a privately owned and managed investment advisory based in Hangzhou, the capital of China's Zhejiang province, has appointed Lili Lan to the newly formed role of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance) Officer. She will supervise and lead sustainability strategies across Cabanor International. 

Yahoo Finance

Cabanor International Appoints ESG Officer

NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has acquired a Pilatus PC-12 aircraft to support aeronautic research efforts, including the assessment of commercial communications technology platforms for the national airspace.

Executive Gov

NASA to Test Communications Tech for Air Mobility Ecosystem With PC-12 Aircraft

To reduce the environmental impact of their IT operations, both Google and Microsoft have announced new arrangements to access renewable energy sources for their data centers.

Tech Times

Google and Microsoft Invest in Renewable Energy to Power Their Data Centers

An Apple iPhone is a must-have for so many — a device that some can’t see themselves living or working without. And for the most part, we can only marvel at its many functions and features and at how, for example, it has more or less replaced cameras and video recorders for a number of users.

She Finds

3 Tips Tech Experts Swear By For A Longer-Lasting Phone Battery

Eye Level, the leading global supplemental education service provider, has been providing educational services as its CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) activities since July. A total of two hundred forty eight students from the US, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong SAR benefited from this program.

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