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Going 100% renewable power means a lot of dirty mining

Posted on August 4, 2019 by energyskeptic

Preface. Everyone talks about oil spills, but what about the dirty mining that will have a huge polluting footprint on the earth, and potentially destroy the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery among other side-effects? Renewables aren’t cleaner and greener than fossils, and require a hell of a lot of fossils to mine the ore, deliver it to a crusher, blast furnace, and fabrication, all accomplished with fossils.

http://energyskeptic.com/2019/going-100-renewable-power-means-a-lot-of-dirty-mining/