Paradox Policies, Mining Laws, CCP Market Monopoly Dig Into Biden ‘Green Energy’ Push

President Joe Biden is encouraging investors to put their money where his mouth is—and where billions in federal tax credits and grants are going—to spur a renewable energy push that is being mired in intractable quagmires due to a cumbersome regulatory process and his own contradictory policies, critics contend.

Those clashing zephyrs are colliding across Nevada’s ridge-ribbed brine flats and desert valleys, where the nation’s only lithium mine subsists and more than 80 proposed lithium projects remain suspended in years-long permitting purgatories or are limping into long-delayed preliminary development under tentative, conditional approvals.

Lithium is the “white gold” of “green energy” development. Along with copper, nickel, and cobalt, it is among the critical minerals and metals that power rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles, solar panels, wind turbines, and the circuitry of contemporary life, such as cell phones and laptops.

According to the International Energy Agency, the global lithium market will increase sixfold between 2020 and 2030. Demand is projected to increase another sixfold between 2030 and 2040 and tenfold by 2050. As with copper, nickel, and cobalt, the United States has ample deposits of lithium, more than enough to meet domestic production needs and be a dominant global market force.

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