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A ‘No Lithium No Mine’ sign is displayed on April 24, 2023, on the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation, near McDermitt, Nevada
ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners have called on the Scottish government to help curb imports of mined materials linked to human rights abuses.
Friends of the Earth Scotland, in a report published today, cautioned the way such materials, required in the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, are extracted.
Environmental destruction is being caused by the mining of lithium for electric car batteries and iron ore to produce steel for wind turbines, it said.
As fossil fuels have had their day, JOSIE MIZEN makes it clear that it is now the government’s responsibility to initiate the transition to alternative employment in a manner that is organised, efficient and effective
Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
