The CEO of Rio Tinto, the second largest minerals and mining company in the world, has said at the AGM for the past two years, if we are to reach net zero by 2050, we need to mine the same amount of copper as we have mined throughout the Entire human history of mining copper by 2050. How we do that without fossil fuels totally escapes the climate warriors.
lv stated this for decades... finally! the truth is getting out there.. including the amount of COAL needed to generate the electricity for EVs.. if everyone had an EV, we wouldn't hav enough coal, electricity, etc.. the baddest problem with "green" (solar panels, windmills, etc) is theres no way to store it.. lastly, batteries the size needed to store it, are Extremely dangerous!! catch that sh*t on fire and no way to put it out.. l wish the biased media had consequences for the slander and mis-information they tout..
To be fair to them I don't think they are being deliberately hypocritical. They just live in their own manufactured reality where these inconvenient truths simply just don't compute in their brains.
Yes but to be fair most people shopping at Walmart don't care that the cheap stuff comes from China. Most people don't care that their shoes and phones are made in sweat shops.
The goal is not to protect people or the environment. The goal is to weaken and eventually collapse the US and other western countries economies and social cohesion so they can replace their governments with the kind that failed in the Soviet Union.
They have outlived their usefulness. The air & water was polluted in the early 1970's - but it was cleaned up. Now the EPA justifies its existence with this ridiculousness.
@@bills5009google did the same thing and killed the peak of TH-cam with bad design update one after another to pretend like they were doing something and now it sucks. The busywork fallacy.
In more ways that one. It's not just "we don't want to ruin the nature in our back yard"" but also things like "there is WAY to much red tape and bureaucracy to cut through here in tje states (things these people helped put in place) let's do it over THERE!!!"
Lol and feminism. Women need hygiene products for free in America, and women in Afghanistan are getting stoned to death ... priorities are out of whack
wow.. spot on comments.. also the gays protesting for palestinians.. thats like chickens lobbying for KFC.. innpalestine if youre gay, they will arrest you OR kill you.. such a peaceful people.. 🤦♀️
Exactly, Bribum and his Family Members have 33 shell companies that we know of. Pelosi, Kerry and dozens of other Corrupt Politicians do as well. This is how millions from Ukraine, China, African & South American countries have $ flowing back to American Politicians. 😡 😡 😡
WOW.....I never thought about that. I bet when it comes down to it another name for "DeepState" would be The Mob. They are a big part of the JFK assassination along with the CIA. Both groups are heavily into $ wash.
@@oooshafiqoooNo....the maintenance is also not green. And when solar panels, wind turbines and batteries reach end of life they are about as non-green as you can get.
@@oooshafiqoooalso worth noting that a lot of these technologies are subsidized which leaves less incentive for companies to reduce waste to cut cost because the consumer is still able to buy them with the subsidies.
They did the same thing with the timber industry in America. They shut most of it down, so the demand for imported lumber went up. A lot of that is harvested in countries with little to no regulations for worker safety or environmental protections.
When the rail system in England was being built, the king was quoted as saying: “we can’t have the peasantry just milling about the countryside”. The elites don’t want their playground played with, and when the king realized what this meant for poor people to be able to move about freely. He was adamantly against the whole idea, so he started crafting safety laws, saying, the human body would explode if it reached speeds exceeding 26 mph. These laws were designed to scare us from experiencing freedom. Ever notice how they craft laws to restrict our freedoms, based on fear for our safety. doesn’t affect them so as long as you have the money to play. It’s all about control, change how we convey ourselves, and make it so cost prohibitive, people just give up and fall in line. That’s the hope anyway.
@@gregoryeverson741 I'm aware. ;) I'm speaking with regret about the greater section of broadcasting which does not follow his pattern of at least attempting to present context while remaining honest about initial biases.
You can either support the gathering of materials for green energy, or you don't. You can't do both, or you could, but you'd be incredibly hypocritical, like these guys.
I've been preaching that to everyone who oppose the proposed copper/nickel mine in northern MN. For some reason, the liberals who push the electric movement in NE MN can not put two and two together!
They took soft humanities in college, not hard STEM-oriented degrees. It really is the worst parts of Atlas Shrugged, where they believe if you just pass more laws everything will work out because producers will always produce, even when you make it impossible for them to produce. The 2024 US Election was a big "shrug" though. We'll see how far it goes.
Becase as usual the Feds ignore the US constitution the feds only have legal authority over federal buildings 10 square miles for a capitol and Teritories before they become States that is it. Edit and defending the US national border also an Oppsie for the sad sacks.
It all comes back to a faulty worldview. There are people that are getting rich off rejecting mining in the United States. Yet, they wouldn’t get rich and don’t care for the populous of other countries and their well-being. Why? Because it doesn’t benefit them. This is not about environmentalism. This is about greed and self realization.
So the planet has all of these super sensitive ecosystems we can't touch in our country. Here's a great idea, just do it in another part of the world. How does that help their ecosystem or save the planet?
@@sidwhiting665 Even worse is that, just like Stossel said, the US could've done it with better equipment, better skilled workers, and even closely watching the operation through any regulation that is less sane than the current regulation.
😂 mines are ok but only if you outsource them to the poorest nations in the world with the worst environmental regulations and the worst working environments for the laborers. Yeah that sounds about right
I am a geologist working on a copper exploration project in Colorado. We have been working a lot on dealing with the community lately. You would not believe the insane amount of entitlement and cognitive dissonance these people show (many of whom are wealthy retirees who have already benefited from technology and commerce powered by mining.) Without it most of us would not even be alive!!
@@LucasChase345Texas, Florida, bible belt, flat sunny states. Texas is notoriously bad with their green energy, entire pastures ruined by wind mills and solar panels
@@alexzanderroberts995 right, they are hideous, and they would never be there in the first place if we lived in a "free market" society, because no one would want them. our government steals our money and puts them there because they have decided it's "good" for our society. those same people would never put them anywhere near a deemed "vacation zone"
As an Alaskan, I support mining. However, the pebble mine really does put the Bristol Bay fishery at risk.... I've talked to Natives from that area who would benefit from the mine, but can't support it because the fishery is too important. There are other mines in Alaska we can operate without the risk.
This is a huge problem in the industry. As someone who works in this industry the current estimated project time for a new mine to become producing is 30 years because of the red tape and lawsuits by environmentalist groups. The judges that stop these mines have no background in engineering whatsoever but they side with environmental groups over the Corp of Engineers. One of the tricks used by environmental group is to base their information off of old technologies that were used in the past that created ecological issues. They do not cite new innovations or improvements that have been made to create more environmentally friendly mines. In other countries this does not happen. Once the permit is issued it's full steam ahead which is how it should be for our projects as well. Using Pebble as an example there were issues with their first PEA study that was rejected by the Corp because the tailings impoundment would have been near a spawning ground. However, they revised their plan to mitigate this risk, and the Corp approved it, but the environmental groups still cite the original plan regardless of the fact it's been updated.
This is a perfect example of NIMBY Not In My Back Yard. It's perfectly acceptable to have child labor in other countries, but if we want to open a mine in middle-of-nowhere Alaska, they get all up in arms because we'll disturb the bear poop. Give me a break.
I support multiple sources for energy. Each energy source comes with its own demands and costs, including environmental costs. The worst thing in energy debate is for lefties to push the propaganda that green energy is free. It's not. Far from it.
Where does NRDC get so much money when they produce nothing? It's really annoying to hear ecofascists keep claiming ecosystems are fragile, they aren't. They claim a mine ruins the environment, what about the urban eyesore cities all these activists call home? They are far more destructive to the ecosystem, far uglier than any strip mine or open pit mine, and a single large city is far more polluting than all the mines in the country combined, not to mention the noise and light pollution unique to cities. Please stop talking about the environment when u live in an urban penthouse and fly around in a private jet.
I work In an underground Molybdenum mine in Colorado and the environmental department said it is so hard to open a new mine in the United states that it would never happen, they can only expand old mines or reopen mines from the past, but never a new mine. To get a new water permit would require the mine to treat the water before it goes into a tailings pond. To tell you how ridiculous that is a human waste plant having to follow those same standards would have to treat the water before it goes into a settling pond, its impossible. They want to shut us down now, yet the mine pays more taxes, higher wages , and contributes more to the community than the local Vail resorts that runs 2 massive resorts in the county.
Also we make a grade 1 product that you can't produce anywhere else, except china, but they make it by dissolving the Molybdenum in Hydrofluoric acid, making an inferior product that is horrible to the environment. I have been to china, 60% of their ground water is undrinkable, and their air pollutions is so bad that it effects air quality in California, plus China built a new coal plant every 2 weeks in 2022 to help supply all this demand . In 2016 our parent company was forced to sell a African Cobalt mine to the Chinese and I heard from some workers that worked their that the working conditions and pay changed drastically for the worse when china took over.
I would be curious how much money is coming into organizations like NRDC from China or Chinese sponsored companies…follow the money John. Thanks for the great content.
the federal government keeps screwing with our industries. alaska is primarily a natural resources state. we dont have industry to speak of. cant drill in anwr because we cant disturb the largest reindeer heard on the planet. they can go around the drill site, which would be a tiny spec in a vast expanse of tundra. cant log, never mind that saplings pop up like dandilions and people spend a lot of effort keeping them from taking over their yards. fishing regulations are a nightmare, a fisherman has to jump through hoops to do their job, and the only ones that dont are the big corporate factory trawlers that decimate fish populations so mcdonalds can serve you a bad fish sandwich. cant build 50 miles of road to connect juneau to hanes, or a bridge to the ketchican airport. this is why alaska is the only red state on the west coast.
First off ex-coalminer here and I agree green energy is not economical, but big oil took away freedom of choice if you think about it. For how many years have people come out with alternatives to gas with modified carbs only to be shut down, bought off, or killed? We had only one choice for many years when it came to fuel for one's car/truck. Gas....oh sure we choices of which gas. POTUS's uncle, John Trump, had his hands of Tesla's work when he worked for the FBI. Then some of it disappears...????? Part of the reason UAPs are kept secret is because of the propulsion systems. Health and energy are the two main reasons for the secrecy. Two things that would wipe out millions of jobs and corps. No more sick people and clean unlimited(not free) energy. Big Pharma and Big Oil will not downsize easily.
Democrats: "We need X, now let's pass laws to make it impossible to get X. Btw, we NEED X!" Sounds like a passage from Atlas Shrugged. Progressives: "You'll figure out a way to make us all the stuff we want." Capitalist: "How? You've strangled us with regulations and stolen everything!" Progressive: "That's not our job to figure out. You're the producer, so go produce! We just make laws."
Starting a mine or opening a closed one takes a long time and is expensive. After the XL pipeline fiasco (and Pebble Mine), no one is going to take the chance that the next administration is going to stop everything.
To me the funniest thing was to see the revolving door between the government and the private sector from the other direction. The guy from NRDC even used the justification of expertise when he explained that which is exactly what big oil says when they do it but the same guy would probably sound the alarm bells and call it Cronyism in that case
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure, It's built on frustration. it's built on fear that you have to overcome. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in Life
I agree with the sentiment but not the analogy. Ironically, having a strong military and being willing to use it is required for true, lasting peace. There is evil in the world, and if good men only ever always accept "peace", what you're telling them is similar to Chamberlain attempting to pacify Hitler to achieve "peace in our time." Yeah, we saw how well that worked out. I used to think nuclear arms race was stupid, but then one must consider if we unilaterally disarm ourselves and get rid of our nukes, that just opens up the world to rogue nations and terrorist cells who have no problem having and using them. It's a dicey way to dance no doubt, but living in a world where only Russia, China, and Iran have nukes? Nope. I'm sure Ug thought Og was a crazy warmonger when he picked up the first tree branch / club.... then got his brains bashed in when he refused to get a club.
Alaska????????????? I remember there was a pipeline??????????????????? Was going to distroy the state????????????????? what happned it was a plus big time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The EPA has been institutionally captured for a very long time. It was pretty much made to be institutionally captured. It needs to be completely reformed.
If the green energy folks were serious, they'd be in favor of nuclear energy too, or at least a " all of the above/a little bit of everything " approach. They're not, hence, more malicious motives are in play
I remember well how the creation of the EPA caused the cost of aluminum to triple-overnight, killing my recycling business because the bars where we gathered the cans started locking up their garbage. It also killed the "Kennecot Theater", a popular TV show in my household (Kennecot is a mining company).
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Mines are bad here but fully acceptable as long as another country does it. Hypocrites
NIMBY’s
"Not in my backyard!"
They get the MONEY, more like.
The politicians sell out out our country for money. Treason.
As long as the left gets their bribes from these other nations who are mining and drilling.
No people have a hard time with the bigger picture. You use up the world's known deposits and then use yours when they run out.
So batteries and EV are supposedly the solution for the environment but mining for the minerals they need is so awful we aren't allowing it.
Not only that, but Biden slapped new tariffs on them.
Climate Change alarmist have a mental illness and are in a cult, no different than pseudo science with covi*, the jab, transgender, etc!
The CEO of Rio Tinto, the second largest minerals and mining company in the world, has said at the AGM for the past two years, if we are to reach net zero by 2050, we need to mine the same amount of copper as we have mined throughout the Entire human history of mining copper by 2050. How we do that without fossil fuels totally escapes the climate warriors.
That’s called Liberal Logic
lv stated this for decades... finally! the truth is getting out there.. including the amount of COAL needed to generate the electricity for EVs.. if everyone had an EV, we wouldn't hav enough coal, electricity, etc..
the baddest problem with "green" (solar panels, windmills, etc) is theres no way to store it..
lastly, batteries the size needed to store it, are Extremely dangerous!! catch that sh*t on fire and no way to put it out..
l wish the biased media had consequences for the slander and mis-information they tout..
Shows how hypocritical the environmental movement is in America. Don't seem to care about mines in Africa or human rights either.
To be fair to them I don't think they are being deliberately hypocritical. They just live in their own manufactured reality where these inconvenient truths simply just don't compute in their brains.
@@bobtuiliga8691no. they are doing it on purpose because you can spihon off Millions $$ from an african business deal.. just ask the bidens..
Yes but to be fair most people shopping at Walmart don't care that the cheap stuff comes from China. Most people don't care that their shoes and phones are made in sweat shops.
@@bobtuiliga8691 When they refuse to acknowledge Facts, they are proving they are actually Members of a Cult, much like the Branch-Covidiots.
The goal is not to protect people or the environment. The goal is to weaken and eventually collapse the US and other western countries economies and social cohesion so they can replace their governments with the kind that failed in the Soviet Union.
Greens, " I want all the amenities of modern life, but someone else must pay! "
The only one really paying is earth
@@sheenahleeyeah not those kids who work in the mines in Africa.
Bet they are backed by China 😈😈
The EPA and Department of Education should be abolished.
@@jeffhatmaker817 Who will replace the DoE? How will the children be educated? By libs who want them to take drugs?
These people are just idiots.
I'll bet it we seen their bank accounts, we will be the idiots, most of these people are getting rich! They're selling out our country for riches!
* evil
Unfair to idiots. They're incompetent morons.
CROOKS
@@jimwerther SO true.
THIS is what REAL Reporting looks like. Thanks John. We haven't seen much REAL Journalism lately.
Defund and Tax NRDC
I would sometimes watch him on the evening news with my folks when I was rather young. I liked him then... and now.
Abolish the EPA.
Trump might just do that.
They have outlived their usefulness. The air & water was polluted in the early 1970's - but it was cleaned up. Now the EPA justifies its existence with this ridiculousness.
@@bills5009google did the same thing and killed the peak of TH-cam with bad design update one after another to pretend like they were doing something and now it sucks. The busywork fallacy.
Just another corrupt 3 letter agency that got too big for its britches and overstayed its welcome.
Green movement is the epitome of NIMBY.
In more ways that one. It's not just "we don't want to ruin the nature in our back yard"" but also things like "there is WAY to much red tape and bureaucracy to cut through here in tje states (things these people helped put in place) let's do it over THERE!!!"
Ironic, isn't it? You're aware they coined the term and circulated its use.
Literally, that was how Trump described those lawyers in JRE
Lol and feminism. Women need hygiene products for free in America, and women in Afghanistan are getting stoned to death ... priorities are out of whack
wow.. spot on comments.. also the gays protesting for palestinians.. thats like chickens lobbying for KFC.. innpalestine if youre gay, they will arrest you OR kill you..
such a peaceful people.. 🤦♀️
How else will they launder money with foreign businesses if we can get the minerals here in US?
Exactly, Bribum and his Family Members have 33 shell companies that we know of. Pelosi, Kerry and dozens of other Corrupt Politicians do as well. This is how millions from Ukraine, China, African & South American countries have $ flowing back to American Politicians. 😡 😡 😡
Also, most underrated comment I've seen here
And My other replies disappeared about the 33 shell companies Briben owns ;[
YT Busy removing comments with facts agaiin can't mention the 3 3 shell companies proven facts either about these corrupted politicians
WOW.....I never thought about that. I bet when it comes down to it another name for "DeepState" would be The Mob. They are a big part of the JFK assassination along with the CIA. Both groups are heavily into $ wash.
There is NO such thing as 'green' clean energy.
its only clean after construction
@@oooshafiqoooNo....the maintenance is also not green. And when solar panels, wind turbines and batteries reach end of life they are about as non-green as you can get.
@huckwach3074 oof, oh yea the degrading of the materials
@@oooshafiqoooalso worth noting that a lot of these technologies are subsidized which leaves less incentive for companies to reduce waste to cut cost because the consumer is still able to buy them with the subsidies.
RIGHT!
They did the same thing with the timber industry in America. They shut most of it down, so the demand for imported lumber went up. A lot of that is harvested in countries with little to no regulations for worker safety or environmental protections.
It decimated many small rural communities economies
Gee, I wonder why wood is so expensive. ;)
When the rail system in England was being built, the king was quoted as saying: “we can’t have the peasantry just milling about the countryside”. The elites don’t want their playground played with, and when the king realized what this meant for poor people to be able to move about freely. He was adamantly against the whole idea, so he started crafting safety laws, saying, the human body would explode if it reached speeds exceeding 26 mph. These laws were designed to scare us from experiencing freedom.
Ever notice how they craft laws to restrict our freedoms, based on fear for our safety. doesn’t affect them so as long as you have the money to play. It’s all about control, change how we convey ourselves, and make it so cost prohibitive, people just give up and fall in line. That’s the hope anyway.
That's the reality. People are mostly sheep. They willingly follow anyone pretending to be a good shepherd right to the shearing house.
@@johnnynick6179 that's how religions, particularly of the abrahamic variety, still continue to hold such a robust grasp over populations.
@@StargazerastraeaCDS detected
He must not watch F1 or fly in a plane
@@arspsychologia4401well it could be antisemitism... or JDS.
How I wish more news sources were like this: informative, interviewing both sides, and honest about their leanings.
He has been doing this for like 40yrs.
@@gregoryeverson741 I'm aware. ;) I'm speaking with regret about the greater section of broadcasting which does not follow his pattern of at least attempting to present context while remaining honest about initial biases.
Thank you John stossel for standing up for truth in the empire of lies
The people are truly waking up!
And most likely China owns those mines in Africa and not only that it's very very cheap labor.
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Bingo!
Now you solved the whole mystery.
You can either support the gathering of materials for green energy, or you don't. You can't do both, or you could, but you'd be incredibly hypocritical, like these guys.
NRDC, the poster child of hypocrisy.
They're perfectly consistent with their marxist roots.
Funded by GINA!!!
I've been preaching that to everyone who oppose the proposed copper/nickel mine in northern MN. For some reason, the liberals who push the electric movement in NE MN can not put two and two together!
They're sold on the sales pitch but opposed to the reality.
Psh its just like farms, we dont need those nasty cruel farms you can just get your food at the store!😂
They took soft humanities in college, not hard STEM-oriented degrees. It really is the worst parts of Atlas Shrugged, where they believe if you just pass more laws everything will work out because producers will always produce, even when you make it impossible for them to produce.
The 2024 US Election was a big "shrug" though. We'll see how far it goes.
We have a saying in the logging business, "everybody wants to sell their timber but no one wants to cut it."
But the green halfwits will happily clear cut a forest to place a useless wind farm in is place...
Why is the federal government getting involved in something that should be a state issue?
Becase as usual the Feds ignore the US constitution the feds only have legal authority over federal buildings 10 square miles for a capitol and Teritories before they become States that is it. Edit and defending the US national border also an Oppsie for the sad sacks.
Good question. If it's all in state, it should be the State EPA, not the Feds.
Same with education. Each state has its own educational standards. Why then do we even have a federal department of education?
It all comes back to a faulty worldview. There are people that are getting rich off rejecting mining in the United States. Yet, they wouldn’t get rich and don’t care for the populous of other countries and their well-being. Why? Because it doesn’t benefit them. This is not about environmentalism. This is about greed and self realization.
The hypocrisy of green. Import it from a foreign source, not here.
His face says, "yeah we are colluding, and what are you going to do about it?" That was my take on his smug smile.
So the planet has all of these super sensitive ecosystems we can't touch in our country. Here's a great idea, just do it in another part of the world. How does that help their ecosystem or save the planet?
It doesn't, but "out of sight, out of mind" allows the greenies to be heroes to their donor constituents while still getting business done.
@@sidwhiting665 Even worse is that, just like Stossel said, the US could've done it with better equipment, better skilled workers, and even closely watching the operation through any regulation that is less sane than the current regulation.
Not to mention the necessary infrastructure to maintain "green energy" we need to Increase our power distribution capacity.
While playing Civilization, it's crucial to build mines to attain resources. Same in real life
Sounds like a good reason to eliminate the EPA.
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DOGE!!!!
And to revoke the NRDC and start taxing them. Also levy back taxes on them as well.
4:10
I wish you wouldn't refer to solar and wind energy generation as "clean energy."
It's anything but clean.
It's clean on a relative scale...but nothing is clean on an absolute scale.
@ledzeppelin1212
Wrong.
Natural gas and nuclear are both cleaner options than solar or wind.
@@phukyerpheefeesNuclear yes. Natural gas, probably not.
@@ledzeppelin1212nope...
@@phukyerpheefeesYou disproved your own point, by using the word CLEANER.
😂 mines are ok but only if you outsource them to the poorest nations in the world with the worst environmental regulations and the worst working environments for the laborers. Yeah that sounds about right
Saving the planet!
I’m sure the kids in Africa really enjoy picking up cobalt with their bare hands.
Thank You John for all you do to keep America informed!
I am a geologist working on a copper exploration project in Colorado. We have been working a lot on dealing with the community lately. You would not believe the insane amount of entitlement and cognitive dissonance these people show (many of whom are wealthy retirees who have already benefited from technology and commerce powered by mining.) Without it most of us would not even be alive!!
If people depend on such a "fragile ecosystem", then maybe it's time to back the bags and leave?
Thank you for talking about the hypocrisy. Not only in the USA this is happening but in Canada as well.
Who funds the NRDC? Could it be the owners of the mines in Africa? Great way to stop competition.
Another reason we voted the nitwits out!
Yet we have hundreds of thousands of acres covered in solar panels just in my state alone.
What state is that?
Hundreds of thousands is likely a stretch
@@LucasChase345Texas, Florida, bible belt, flat sunny states.
Texas is notoriously bad with their green energy, entire pastures ruined by wind mills and solar panels
@@alexzanderroberts995 right, they are hideous, and they would never be there in the first place if we lived in a "free market" society, because no one would want them. our government steals our money and puts them there because they have decided it's "good" for our society. those same people would never put them anywhere near a deemed "vacation zone"
@@alexzanderroberts995 my relply to you was deleted by someone.
They probably drove there in their teslas to protest that mine 😂
I've been talking about this for years. It's insane.
Well done Mr. Stossel!!
As an Alaskan, I support mining. However, the pebble mine really does put the Bristol Bay fishery at risk.... I've talked to Natives from that area who would benefit from the mine, but can't support it because the fishery is too important. There are other mines in Alaska we can operate without the risk.
This is a huge problem in the industry. As someone who works in this industry the current estimated project time for a new mine to become producing is 30 years because of the red tape and lawsuits by environmentalist groups. The judges that stop these mines have no background in engineering whatsoever but they side with environmental groups over the Corp of Engineers. One of the tricks used by environmental group is to base their information off of old technologies that were used in the past that created ecological issues. They do not cite new innovations or improvements that have been made to create more environmentally friendly mines. In other countries this does not happen. Once the permit is issued it's full steam ahead which is how it should be for our projects as well. Using Pebble as an example there were issues with their first PEA study that was rejected by the Corp because the tailings impoundment would have been near a spawning ground. However, they revised their plan to mitigate this risk, and the Corp approved it, but the environmental groups still cite the original plan regardless of the fact it's been updated.
fuck TH-cam censorship
This is a perfect example of NIMBY Not In My Back Yard. It's perfectly acceptable to have child labor in other countries, but if we want to open a mine in middle-of-nowhere Alaska, they get all up in arms because we'll disturb the bear poop. Give me a break.
He wants to buy the raw materials from his Chinese friends
I support multiple sources for energy. Each energy source comes with its own demands and costs, including environmental costs. The worst thing in energy debate is for lefties to push the propaganda that green energy is free. It's not. Far from it.
Love your work, John. Thanks for all you do...
Government just needs to get out of the way.
Government should be held accountable for breach of contract by canceling existing permits. And EPA should be shut down.
Thank you John Stossel for this weeks edition of Common Sense!
Spot on again JS❤❤❤❤
Where does NRDC get so much money when they produce nothing? It's really annoying to hear ecofascists keep claiming ecosystems are fragile, they aren't. They claim a mine ruins the environment, what about the urban eyesore cities all these activists call home? They are far more destructive to the ecosystem, far uglier than any strip mine or open pit mine, and a single large city is far more polluting than all the mines in the country combined, not to mention the noise and light pollution unique to cities. Please stop talking about the environment when u live in an urban penthouse and fly around in a private jet.
I work In an underground Molybdenum mine in Colorado and the environmental department said it is so hard to open a new mine in the United states that it would never happen, they can only expand old mines or reopen mines from the past, but never a new mine. To get a new water permit would require the mine to treat the water before it goes into a tailings pond. To tell you how ridiculous that is a human waste plant having to follow those same standards would have to treat the water before it goes into a settling pond, its impossible. They want to shut us down now, yet the mine pays more taxes, higher wages , and contributes more to the community than the local Vail resorts that runs 2 massive resorts in the county.
Also we make a grade 1 product that you can't produce anywhere else, except china, but they make it by dissolving the Molybdenum in Hydrofluoric acid, making an inferior product that is horrible to the environment. I have been to china, 60% of their ground water is undrinkable, and their air pollutions is so bad that it effects air quality in California, plus China built a new coal plant every 2 weeks in 2022 to help supply all this demand . In 2016 our parent company was forced to sell a African Cobalt mine to the Chinese and I heard from some workers that worked their that the working conditions and pay changed drastically for the worse when china took over.
And this is why The Wright Report has ongoing updates on the Dirty Green Revolution.
Only 700 comments? This needs more attention
The children yearn for the mines.
I would be curious how much money is coming into organizations like NRDC from China or Chinese sponsored companies…follow the money John. Thanks for the great content.
What happened to free America, too much government...?
This is what happens when people make important decisions with feelings and never compromising instead of logic and facts.
The old government saying "What's yours is mine".
Great report John! Love your reports. You need your own show brother!
Fuck TH-cam censorship
If it can't be grown, it has to be mined. No other way around it.
amazing how fast youtube buried your vid in my recommendations list
Big tech is real quick to bury and censor anything that speaks on this issue.
DOGE needs to hire Stossel as an advisor.
Common sense isn't common any more. 😢
Look at many of the comments.
With the level of ignorance is there any point to reaching more individuals
You can't find a product that is not drilled for, or mined for. You can't transport anything without drilling or mining either.
nah green scam is fine taking minerals from the worst exploitive mines in Africa, just dont do it more cleanly locally.
the federal government keeps screwing with our industries. alaska is primarily a natural resources state. we dont have industry to speak of. cant drill in anwr because we cant disturb the largest reindeer heard on the planet. they can go around the drill site, which would be a tiny spec in a vast expanse of tundra. cant log, never mind that saplings pop up like dandilions and people spend a lot of effort keeping them from taking over their yards. fishing regulations are a nightmare, a fisherman has to jump through hoops to do their job, and the only ones that dont are the big corporate factory trawlers that decimate fish populations so mcdonalds can serve you a bad fish sandwich. cant build 50 miles of road to connect juneau to hanes, or a bridge to the ketchican airport. this is why alaska is the only red state on the west coast.
Green energy isn't affordable enough to be mainstream. Even if it was, I still insist on FREEDOM of choice
Green energy is a scam. The lifetime energy output of these 'power plants' is less than the energy it takes to make them.
First off ex-coalminer here and I agree green energy is not economical, but big oil took away freedom of choice if you think about it. For how many years have people come out with alternatives to gas with modified carbs only to be shut down, bought off, or killed? We had only one choice for many years when it came to fuel for one's car/truck. Gas....oh sure we choices of which gas. POTUS's uncle, John Trump, had his hands of Tesla's work when he worked for the FBI. Then some of it disappears...?????
Part of the reason UAPs are kept secret is because of the propulsion systems. Health and energy are the two main reasons for the secrecy. Two things that would wipe out millions of jobs and corps. No more sick people and clean unlimited(not free) energy. Big Pharma and Big Oil will not downsize easily.
Mining is how we get most of our critical materials.
Democrats: "We need X, now let's pass laws to make it impossible to get X. Btw, we NEED X!" Sounds like a passage from Atlas Shrugged.
Progressives: "You'll figure out a way to make us all the stuff we want."
Capitalist: "How? You've strangled us with regulations and stolen everything!"
Progressive: "That's not our job to figure out. You're the producer, so go produce! We just make laws."
Not in my backyard. No jails, nuclear plants, manufacturing centers, halfway homes, or anything that society would benefit from.
If you can’t grow it, you have to mine it!
Starting a mine or opening a closed one takes a long time and is expensive. After the XL pipeline fiasco (and Pebble Mine), no one is going to take the chance that the next administration is going to stop everything.
To me the funniest thing was to see the revolving door between the government and the private sector from the other direction. The guy from NRDC even used the justification of expertise when he explained that which is exactly what big oil says when they do it but the same guy would probably sound the alarm bells and call it Cronyism in that case
We "made" 50,000 new jobs but killed millions but opposing the mines. Stupidity at its finest.
The California model. Simply require all the environmentally incorrect processes be done outside the borders.
Replace finite resources (oil/coal) for "renewable" finite resources (electricity/lithium). Energy crisis solved.
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure, It's built on frustration. it's built on fear that you have to overcome. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in Life
You are correct. I suggest that people know the right to grow their earnings , because that's the only way to survive inflation.
Making money is the plan and with Bitcoin your plans can be accomplish
As a novice, it's vital to have a mentor for accountability. I'm being advice by a reputable crypto consultant, Marion Trimble.
I really appreciate Mrs Trimble influence during this global pandemic Lock down
Sounds familiar, I have heard her name on several occasions and both her success stories in trading big kudos to this woman.
Hopefully the unelected EPA will be greatly reduced under the new administration.
how fast can you say "Chevron decision Reversal" 3 times ?
Yet another breath of fresh air amidst the baloney we're often told to accept.
Man why we cant just mine for uranium for nuclean plants
Secretary of State Hillary sold our Uranium to Russia, so they can mine it but we can't.
President Trump is returning to the White House just in time.
I had leftism until Jesus and President Trump cured me 😇👌
The people against these mines are the same people who argue we need to keep Mars pristine. Absolute lunacy.
mining for those minerals for green energy is exactly like doing a war for peace. FREAKIN WAKE UUUUUUUPPPPPPPP
I agree with the sentiment but not the analogy. Ironically, having a strong military and being willing to use it is required for true, lasting peace. There is evil in the world, and if good men only ever always accept "peace", what you're telling them is similar to Chamberlain attempting to pacify Hitler to achieve "peace in our time." Yeah, we saw how well that worked out.
I used to think nuclear arms race was stupid, but then one must consider if we unilaterally disarm ourselves and get rid of our nukes, that just opens up the world to rogue nations and terrorist cells who have no problem having and using them. It's a dicey way to dance no doubt, but living in a world where only Russia, China, and Iran have nukes? Nope.
I'm sure Ug thought Og was a crazy warmonger when he picked up the first tree branch / club.... then got his brains bashed in when he refused to get a club.
Alaska????????????? I remember there was a pipeline??????????????????? Was going to distroy the state????????????????? what happned it was a plus big time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hopefully Trump will permanently close the BoM, BLM and EPA
Smells like a swamp that you’re reporting on.
This is a job for DOGE.
It’s not green than
"green" was never about saving the evnironment.
@ I know it’s all about profit
Vevek and Elon, let’s take care of this one please.
Pebble mine holds more gold than already exists on earth.
prediction? Or known?
@diamondrg3556 do your own research. Buy stock in NAK if you like to gamble.
My favorite journalist! ⚡️⚡️👏👏🙏🙏
Give Trump a little time to fix this kind of nonsense.
The EPA has been institutionally captured for a very long time. It was pretty much made to be institutionally captured. It needs to be completely reformed.
What they mean is they created 50k jobs for activists and regulators!
If the green energy folks were serious, they'd be in favor of nuclear energy too, or at least a " all of the above/a little bit of everything " approach. They're not, hence, more malicious motives are in play
I remember well how the creation of the EPA caused the cost of aluminum to triple-overnight, killing my recycling business because the bars where we gathered the cans started locking up their garbage. It also killed the "Kennecot Theater", a popular TV show in my household (Kennecot is a mining company).
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within”
James Durant 1885 - 1981
Ending the NRDC's corrupt influence seems like a task for the Secretary of Energy.