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Message From The Editor

Environmental leadership urgently needed

Last week in the Editor’s Message, I shared some of the thoughts from Eric Reguly’s Opinion column in the Globe & Mail from Saturday, June 17 where he wrote that “Your next EV could be made from metals extracted from the seabed – a potential disaster.”

The story focused on plans to start mining the seabed for more of the “rare earth metals” needed to make the electric vehicles that are now being mandated by governments all over the world as a way to replace the internal combustion (ICE) engines that burn fossil fuels. There is a huge incentive for corporations to do this because the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act will send billions in subsidies to companies in the “green transition”. Canada is responding by trying to match some of these subsidies. Witness the subsidies to Volkswagen for their new Ontario battery plant, or to Stellantis who halted the construction of their new Ontario battery plant to re-negotiate with the government because Volkswagen got so much more. Is this the Environmental leadership that is urgently needed? (READ MORE)

Andy Adams, Editor
aadams@kerrwil.com

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