Thousands protest in Serbia against lithium mine project • FRANCE 24 English

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Published 2024-08-11
Thousands hit the streets in Serbia's capital Belgrade Saturday to protest the rebooting of a controversial lithium mine set to serve as a vital source to power Europe's green energy transition. Serbia has vast lithium deposits near the western city of Loznica. A mining project being developed by the Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has been a perennial political fault line in the Balkan country in recent years because of its potential environmental impacts.
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All Comments (21)
  • @p.b.markovic4953
    Rio Tinto is big company with very bad reputation, hundreds of court cases in the world, from Australia to Norvay, and further, for every place they had mines, created bad ecological situation, than run away with profits and left to every country to pay for damages..
  • @arisplugis5197
    problem is that Rion Tinto will get richer. not Serbians.
  • @happymelon7129
    By @dusancville EU may do the mining on their land if they fancy it. We don't need membership in EU.
  • @zlatanzakic
    Rio Tinto ain't gonna be mining... Ain't gonna be mining... Ain't gonna be mining...
  • @happymelon7129
    Those Mine belong to Serbia people. Should follow Indonesia doing... ban raw mineral export. Indonesia's new round of commodity export bans will take effect on June 10th. Although the government will still allow some firms to export copper, iron ore, lead, zinc and anode mud from copper concentrates until May 2024, a ban on all bauxite shipments will proceed.13 Jun 2023
  • @Thomas.Deverell
    Serbs should develop those mines themselves. No need to trust foreign companies especially from Western Europe who will want just exploit the Serbian nation.
  • @happymelon7129
    Through successive policies implemented between 2009 and 2019, the Indonesian government has, as of late April 2022, progressively banned the export of nickel ore, requiring nickel to be processed domestically for export.
  • @zlatanzakic
    Somehow I'm not partial to lithium batteries myself: recently I bought standard 1.5V rechargeable batteries made by Ansmann - it turns out that lithium batteries have significantly lower capacity than traditional NiMH ones. I'm disappointed. Now what?
  • @sekimoki3024
    Imagine lithium mine project in France. It's impossible and not allowed.
  • @happymelon7129
    Why is Indonesia banning exports? Indonesia announced a ban on bauxite exports in 2021 to encourage the further development of the downstream domestic metals sector. The government confirmed the move in May 2022, with the ban officially coming into effect on June 10, 2023.8 Jul 2024
  • @Atibapavlog
    Serbs are intelligent people. They know rio tinto will be bad for them
  • @trong-tinnguyen1962
    Lithium battery? Than types of energy in kilowatts for population. Geographic?
  • @Smudgie
    This is all part of the joy of the EU.
  • @filip4413
    Serbia is already very polluted and ecological disaster