Environmentalists Express Concerns About Deep-Sea Mining
The global transition to green energy has signaled the need for critical metals such as nickel and cobalt. Solar, wind and electric vehicle technology will require these metals in immense quantities to support worldwide climate change efforts for the next few decades. However, current supplies are dwindling, and the existing recycling infrastructure isn’t sufficient enough to extract enough metals from dead electric vehicle batteries. Even if this recycling infrastructure and policies support mass recycling, it may not be enough to supply the world’s increasing demand for minerals. Mining companies are now looking to a new and unexplored frontier to help…
