The European Commission has published a list of 47 strategic projects “to ensure and diversify access to raw materials in the European Union”, that is, to enhance the extraction and transfer of 14 17 raw materials that are decisive in energy transmission.
Among the list, which consists of many projects that were the subject of competition by local communities and environmental activists in various European countries, there are four sites in Portugal – three related to Lithium And one with copper – which will now have to progress within a limited deadline.
M PortugalLithium was chosen from Lithium Paroso extraction projects in Boticasalso Savana Supplier, and the Romanian mine, in Montalger, from Lusorecursosand In addition to the Neves-Corvo mine in Castro Verde, extraction and processing copper.
The European Commission also considered strategic importance – Consequently, he is entitled to take advantage of the accelerated operating mechanisms and facilitate financing – raising a single colander lithium and Life energy (From Jose de Milo and Bondi), Which will be built in Estarreja.
Environmental Protecting Competition
It is designed to enhance Europe’s independence in terms of raw materials for defense and energy transmission, which is a large number of projects that have now been considered strategists by environmental scientists and residents for years, and by years, by Providing social and environmental risks prominent. Therefore, many NGOs and European community societies interacted in Portugal, Serbia, Romania, Germany and Spain with the announcement on Tuesday, saying that they will compete for the European Commission’s decision.
The competition list includes major Lithium projects such as Barroso and Roman Mines in Portugal, Zinewald, Germany, in addition to the Lithium mine in San Jose, in Spain, and the Golden Cubic Rovina project, Romania, a joint statement from Organizations Geota, Miningwatch Portugal e shift.
Explore the cheap raw materials for the auto industry in Germany In other countries, only defects will bring us. We live on sustainable livestock and rely on preserving clean rivers and green pastures. This is not a fair transition. N says nEson Gomez, from the United Defense Association in Kovas de Paroso, was transferred in the statement.
The official also adds that open mines and hunger designed to explore lithium in Barroso “will not be acceptable either from an environmental or social point of view.” Therefore, the organizations will officially request the committee that reviews its decision. “
Right license
According to the organizations, at the European Council of Raw materials meeting, in February, the Portuguese Ministry of Environment and Energy “gave the committee to the announced projects, and has not exercised its right to veto,” a position they fail.
The reporting feature in this list is that projects will benefit from the guarantee that the license will not be able to spend more than 27 months if the mining extraction project, or 15 months, if the test for the processing project or recycling. The license is a point where many projects are tangled without moving forward.
The projects will also have financial advice to launch special investments with the general guarantees of national banks, as Reuters, as well as the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Think about the defense industry
Aluminum, copper, nickel, lehium, graffiti and different rare lands (a group of 17 elements including Lantnium, neodymium and terbium), which is the key to making electric vehicle batteries or wind turbines, for example, some materials that target selected projects. One of the projects, which involves extracting magnesium, as well European defense.
S. European organization of critical raw materialsAnd that entered into force in April 2024, stipulating that the European Union can extract 10 % of the materials it needs until 2030, which treats 40 % of the total and Recil 25 %. For example, the European Union today imports 93 % of magnesium and 86 % of rare land in China.
“For a long time, raw materials have been the weakness of our industrial policy. Europe prefers exclusively to purchase outside its borders most of the raw materials it needs,” said Stefan Sejuri, European Industry Commissioner at the list. “But the Cofide crisis and the war in Ukraine may remind us of the danger of this,” added the French Commissioner, which was reported by Reuters.
A few recycling projects
OS Projects It is located in 13 states from the European Union: Germany, Belgium, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Greece, Poland, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Romania and Sweden. Twenty -has a relationship with extraction, 24 with treatment and only ten with recycling. Some, like the project in Nevis CroweNear Castro Verde, in Alentejo, a mixture of properties such as extraction and processing.
“These projects Strategies aim to ensure the supply of the European industry without starting environmental and social rethison. ” Michael Recordtt, PowerSHIFT and co -founder of the European Network Coalition in the European Union of Raw materials, was transferred in the statement of Portuguese organizations.
Strategic recycling and replacement projects in Portugal have not been approved. In fact, only 25.5 % of the European Union projects are allocated to recycle raw materials and replace them, another factor criticized by environmental defense organizations and societies. With agencies
