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We need a government with the balls to nationalize this shit, and charge for every single gram that's being extracted. And do the same with every other natural resource, including oil.
Oooooh, best we can do is let corporations rape and pillage the land, and make citizens pay for the whole operation through taxes, sorry.
Don't forget about the cleanup after they're gone.
Right right right, thank god the peons will pay for that too! Can't hold anyone accountable now, can we?
They won't leave. It's inexhaustible. Best learn to live with the pollution!
It’s trickle out economics.
Trickle down economics, because they're pissing on you.
"Inexhaustible"
Humans: hold my beer
Great! Let’s sell this off to multinationals ASAP so we can accelerate pillaging the land without consultation, outsource the jobs and ensure the fewest Canadians benefit from the windfall.
Let’s sell this off to multinationals ASAP so we can accelerate pillaging the land without consultation, outsource the jobs and ensure the fewest Canadians benefit from the windfall.
Ah! Someone who's familiar with Alberta oil & gas extraction.
…AND BC lumber, AND Ontario steel, AND maritime fish, AND everybodies’ water and minerals, etcetc
I call it “outsourcing profits”.
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So extract all the value and give it to rich ppl while leaving everyone else to clean up the mess left behind?
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USA:
It's funny cause it's true. Trump wants to invade Greenland and Canada; it's not just because he's a piece of shit dictator. He's after resources for his cronies.
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“Almost inexhaustible”
Humanity: Hold my beer.
Incoming reclassification of maple syrup as a WMD.
“This ‘syrup’ comprises a clear and present danger to the United States of America. Operation ‘Freedom Fries’ has been authorised!”
I know there's been lots of headlines in the past like OMG there's not enough lithium! It's never been true.
It's one of the most abundant elements out there, it's everywhere. It was always more about what reserves we knew about, but when what we knew about wasn't going to be enough, people go looking, and it's abundant.
Also the more uses there are for it, the more profitable it is to extract from these methods and the better we get at it, the cheaper it is to extract, which further opens up even more options.
I don't actually remember any articles that claimed there were lithium shortages in that there isn't enough on the planet, but rather that China is the only country with a working supply chain.
I suppose it's a bit like diamonds, which are actually really abundant, just not always very accessible.
It’s one of the most abundant elements out there
I mean, it's not. Either in the crust or the universe - stellar nucleosynthesis skips straight to carbon.
Your point still stands, though, since abundance is only one of the factors that goes into how easy something is to recover.
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And we'll just keep shipping it out of the country for pennies for other countries to make value added products.
You want some of the impacts of making those value added products in your back yard?
A key reason why Canada ships its oil, lumber, and minerals elsewhere for processing is because there is a human cost to processing these things that moat people don't want to pay.
Also, where clean processing is possible it makes processed materials cost-prohibitive when you can just buy the stuff from jurisdictions where health and environmental laws are lax or non-existent and you can process however you like.
Well, tax the dirty processors and eliminate them from the supply chain, you might suggest! That's not easier either, see eliminating forced labour from the supply chain as an example.
I'm not saying nothing should or could be done about Canada's extraction-only economy, just that it isn't as easy it may appear at first glance.
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Are you folks interested in some freedom!?
Asking for your neighbors to the south.
/s, just in case it wasn't obvious.
This is just an ad for a satellite exploration company. It is not even that big a deal.
From the article, “That potential would place Cisco among the largest hard-rock lithium deposits now being tracked in the James Bay region.”
So, not even the biggest in the area.
Also, Sodium Ion is about to make Lithium much less of a big deal.
Still great economically but hardly as world changing as the headline makes out.
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inb4 US bombs Canada for some lame excuse of a reason
People of canada should get dividents from profit
That potential would place Cisco among the largest hard-rock lithium prospects now being tracked in the James Bay region.
That's way less impressive than the headline makes it seem.
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Sounds like a dictatorship that needs McLiberated™
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