RE: Advfn10 May 2021 01:34
It is not just SAV hanging by the result, the whole of Portugal's presence in the EV battery alliance, money, industry and jobs is hanging on this! MDB is being groomed as the one to kick start it off. With no laws in place to stop the mining and you don't mine because some people whinge, well you set a precedence that you can't recover from. There would be no mining in Portugal if you folded at every whinger. But all projects have to pass a high ESG litmus test on EU standards of course. No mining is perfect but we need to do it, it is all mitigation and appeasement. I couldn't support a project that was taking advantage and destroying something without recourse. It cannot be argued that SAV is trying it's very best to do the right thing and fulfill all ESG requirements and has those local best mitigatedfor least disturbance whilst adding to the area positively.