TOMORROW, 25TH APRIL. AT 20:00 HOURS.
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The current project, as we have already told you, is one of disproportionate dimensions: the cut, dumps, sludge deposits, roads and busy roads, photovoltaic surface, substations and power lines, gas installation, industrial enclosures. There are 7,000 hectares though threatened by possible future prospecting and mining works that correspond to the mining grids of the Retamar and Ampliación de Retamar projects.
The way in which mining is sold to us by the system and public administrations as an opportunity for our territories is a big lie: it is only an opportunity for the economies of large companies. The planet does not have nearly enough minerals for the rate of social consumption that we have.
The prices of fuel and electricity, of energy in general, are so high that even mega-mining projects like Las Navas should take the calculator again to review their economic viability. Even if they are subsidised by Next Generation funds, or what is the same by the administrations with public money, the bottomless pit of energy costs discourages their implementation. Imagine the cost of diesel for the 200 lorries that will be running day and night for 20 years. Imagine the gas needed to roast the lithium concentrate and then process the lithium hydroxide. The electricity and gas that will be consumed is so much that with the current global instability and the coming instability in the way problems are solved, **it doesn't add up.
The region of Bajo Alagón needs more than ever to preserve its land for agriculture and livestock and food processing industries, rural and nature tourism, and a place to live with quality of life and health.
We talk to two businessmen in the area: How a mine would affect their businesses.
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