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SANTIAGO, Feb 11 (Reuters) – German automakers Volkswagen VOWG_p.DE and Daimler DAIGn.DE have launched a examine to push for extra “sustainable” lithium mining in Chile, in response to lobbyist filings reviewed by Reuters, an indication of rising provide chain issues forward of an anticipated electrical automobile growth.
Chile’s Atacama salt flat is by far the largest supply of provide of the ultralight battery metallic in South America’s so-called “lithium triangle.” The area, whose fragile ecosystem depends on a restricted water provide, is house to the globe’s high two producers, U.S.-based Albemarle ALB.N and Chile’s SQM SQMA.SN.
However issues over sustainability have lengthy plagued Atacama’s miners, which extract the metallic from swimming pools of brine beneath the world’s driest desert. Residents and environmental teams fear about potential injury to a regional ecosystem house to an historical indigenous tradition, lagoons inhabited with uncommon flamingos and a booming tourism business.
Lobbying information present a crew from German improvement company GIZ and the public-private…