41 Replies to “Coleville area first to have a lithium development plan released”

  1. Geez, I think that’s called economic development, but you know… “we don’t need no stinkin’ sparky cars”… or whatever it is she says. Lol.

    1. Be funnier when they realize lithium is the new lead poisoning and makes weaklings want to mutilate their genitals.

    2. That is correct. We do not want or need EVs. They are not as billed and are a terrible waste of resources, everything from coal, oil, gas and minerals.

    1. I think the logic goes like this:
      Electric cars use Li-ion batteries.
      Electric cars = self-driving cars.
      Self-driving cars = total state control of movement.
      Therefor lithium = bad.
      Canadians on both the left and the right are too stupid to be a free people.

      1. Electric cars are not reliable enough to be used on a massive scale. Our current electric grid can not support it, they don’t hold their charge well for long trips. I recently helped drive my sisters Tesla across the country, it was a nightmare. She really wants to do her part and she wants to love her Tesla, but it’s sucks for anything but quick trips around town. And now that electricity is so expensive, it isn’t any cheaper than gas.

        We have no way to grow food with electric machinery. We need the oil industry to keep growing the amount of food needed to keep mass famine at bay.

        This is reality, something people on the left don’t seem to care about.

          1. What is the lithium for if not to build batteries to try and bolster the grid and run electric vehicles? Please enlighten me.

            Is it to help with the great laptop shortage?

  2. Actually it’s rent seeking. Lithium is the new hyped marijuana-like investment, created by, and economically destined to follow the climate hysteria State, its subsidies and mandates. “Invest” early and get out fast. The deeper we get into such a distorted economy, the harder the fall in its eventual reckoning. The same bankrupt welfare states that promote and mandate EVs will not increase grid capacities (they are committed to useless W&S grid parasites with little to no ROE) to charge them nor allow the required magnitude increase in mining footprint to allow transition. The end game is to get you out of your ICE and or any other personal automobile.

      1. Government should stop the lithium scam- pretending it’s the future, when there are far better opportunities in extracting sources of energy. What good are Li batteries without new electricity generation – Elon says the US will need 2x present generating capacity to go all electric. And the greenest jurisdictions like Cali, are going with all renewable electric sources ( and they don’t mean hydro ). Lithium is a scam, a cope offered to the masses screwed out of a living because of the green agenda.

        Kate, we need a counter on this site to show net new jobs from all the green scams ( subtracting all the jobs lost do you green policies ). Of course, it will need a negative function.

        1. Lithium is not a source of energy.
          Hi-capacity batteries are a good thing.
          You are obviously of the laptop class, as only they can be so ignorant as to use lithium batteries every day and not be aware of it.

  3. Horseshoes are made of steel.
    The government uses horses to trample little old ladies.
    Iron mining is evil!

    Canadians: To stupid to live.

    1. “To stupid to live”

      Oh the irony.

      Your strawmen always seem to miss the point, and I can’t make out what your point actually is.

    1. …now the right are hand-wringing, pearl-clutching enviro-karens.
      Gotta love the view from that Overton Window.

    2. These facilities will be essentially indistinguishable from the oil and gas facilities already prevalent in the region, and in Saskatchewan, for over 70 years. These are not giant strip mines, but wells 9 inches across.

        1. cal2, I guess you must have hated it when gov’t funded magnetosonde surveys found lots of iron ore deposits, and don’t forget about trains and time-zones!
          You people would throw out the baby with the bathwater, and then brag about how much money you saved by not having to feed the baby anymore.
          Canadians: Too stupid to live.

          1. Let me spell it out for you then:
            Mining lithium is good, just like mining iron, copper and bauxite and lead is.
            Does that make it through what passes for your ideologically thickened skull, or do I have to dumb it down some more?

      1. Looks like you we’rent expecting the 2-minutes hate at the mention of the word “lithium.”
        Perhaps some lithium meds would help them?

  4. Its high time the Canadian right join forces with the hereditary chiefs and start protesting resource development, I mean just listen to some of the people here.

    1. Thanks for exposing the Li mining scam – batteries are not a source of energy, and are therefore a wasteful extravagance for people having a difficult time buying energy needed for homes, industry, and transportation. Stop taxing sources of energy for needy people!

      1. Ahh yes, if you’re not mining for energy, you’re “a wasteful extravagance.”
        Iron, bauxite, copper, other useful stuff, its not energy so screw it.
        I’ll say it again:
        Canadians are too stupid to live.

        1. You really do have a comprehension problem. Or do you just think it’s fun to misconstrue other viewpoints so you can insult people? You think it’s fun to be childish? I wish I had as much time to waste as you you do, must be nice.

  5. While lithium prices and demand are indeed being largely driven by electric vehicles, they are also used in almost every mobile application that a battery is used in. That includes the cellphone in your hand or the laptop on your desk. There are many billions of dollars to be made from this burgeoning lithium industry, and Saskatchewan is positioning itself to do it in one of the lowest impact manners possible. Once this site is set up along the highway, south of Kerrobert, only a trained eye will be able to tell the difference between it and nearby oil batteries. Except that, at 10,000 tonnes per year, with lithium between $20,000 and $65,000 per tonne (most of the last 1.5 years), that’s potential revenue of $200 to $650 million, PER YEAR, for just one facility. Now, are we going to make that money in Saskatchewan, or let someone else do it?

    1. Don’t forget cordless tools and laptop batteries!
      Even if the price of lithium craters by a factor of 10, giving such ignorant peons as myself access to cheap (gasp!) e-bike batteries, these mines can remain profitable, so that I can burn down cities like New York on the cheap (the latest anti-battery propaganda to come out).
      I for one am happy to see some 21st century resource exploitation going on in Canada, in fact, we need much, much more of it.

  6. I remember when Brian first brought up lithium mining on this site, and I predicted that bureaucratic BS would delay it until sodium or other tech supplanted it, making it just another money-sink.
    It seems I was wrong. SK is moving admirably fast on this.
    I am happy to be proven wrong on my admittedly cynical prediction.
    Perhaps there is hope for us, after all.

    1. The thing about lithium is it is the lightest metal on the periodic table, period. That will never, ever change. So for any application where weight is a factor, you’ve got to come up with some really extraordinary solution to make up for the weight discrepancy. Where is weight a consideration? Cell phones (remember brick phones, that weighed as much?), laptops, tablets, cars, trucks, semis, and even (shudder) aircraft. Applications where weight would not be a factor would be grid-scale batteries for electrical grids and possibly ships, but that’s never going to be an application.

      1. Yes, lithium is light.
        That fact does not preclude batteries with a higher energy density that do not use lithium.

  7. I was kind of hoping that this was a soft drink venture. 7-Up used to put lithium salts in their product. Well, until the FDA crashed the party, that is.

  8. Looks like Kate’s readership is at about the same level as everydayfeminism.com’s.
    …and BCF is a UFO truther who thinks that a new holocaust is brewing.
    Seems like VladTepesBlog is the last one left in this benighted country.

  9. Well, presumably brine guys would be able to handle sucking salt water. Unless they overpaid for the credentials.

    They could promote brine lithium by declaring this coming May “Brine May” and paying Sir Brian May to endorse it. You see now why I had such a flourishing career in promotion.

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