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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
It'll be interesting to see what an environmental assessment will look like, and if the environmental groups lose their nut over these mines, which are really environmentally bad and carbon intensive. They're going to be ok obviously with renewable tech but they literally want non of the resource exploitation or manufacturing in this country. They just want the cars to show up here all shiny.
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I'd actually like to see what the plan looks like for the "upstream" lithium industry in Canada. Obviously we have the resources both in terms of lithium in mineral form and in brine form. Getting raw lithium should be relatively easy but getting processed lithium that is ready for final goods like batteries is not a simple process. The environmental impact of "refining" lithium is very energy intensive and polluting so I wonder if that will be viewed as acceptable in Canada or if we would have to ship the raw lithium to China or elsewhere.