Biden’s Green Energy Dilemma On Critical Minerals

Biden’s Green Energy Dilemma On Critical Minerals

Share to Linkedin HUAIBEI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 27: (Image taken with fish eye lens) An employee works at a lithium-ion ... [+] battery manufacturing plant on February 27, 2021 in Huaibei, Anhui Province of China. (Photo by Li Xin/VCG via Getty Images) "All these investments are very long term - you can't just turn this on. It's not like Santa Claus makes this stuff - you've got to build it." That's what James Calaway, industry veteran and Executive Chairman of inoeer, told me when he agreed to sit down for an interview recently. ioneer is a leading U. S. company focused on extracting and producing advanced lithium chemicals in America, a critical mineral integral to the production of state-of-the-art batteries and all manner of mobile devices. Make no mistake about this: You cannot conduct a full, fact-based conversation about the topics of climate change, the energy transition, the Paris Climate Accords, the Green New Deal, or the stated climate goals of the Biden administration and other governments around the globe without including the security of supply of lithium in that conversation. Lithium, and other key minerals like nickel and copper, are integral to and inseparable from achieving any of those