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pa-one, a good insight article to help the good goals switched on, full ON! Appears many naysayers polluting the thread can be an asset once they get their groove back? Anyway....we've had a think about it....RNU is still on. Imo.

"Why the once 'dirty' mining industry is now touted as key to 'clean' energy
Canada needs to invest $30 billion in mining to avert climate change disaster: Canadian Climate Institute"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/why-the-once-dirty-mining-industry-is-now-touted-as-key-to-clean-energy-1.7279697

The government says graphite is a critical mineral needed to reach net zero but locals in the Outaouais region of Quebec are opposed to a proposed graphite mine in their backyard

It's found in pencil leads, and also in vast quantities under the lakes and forest outside one small western Quebec town.

And in a familiar-sounding story, locals in the Outaouais region are against the massive disruption that's needed for a mining company to dig it up.

Graphite is one of six minerals the Canadian government has identified as a priority on its list of 31 critical minerals.
Some climate change experts say we're going to need to dig up a whole lot more of it if we're to have any chance of staving off catastrophic global warming."

The article points out aspects of China's dominance in graphite resources and the reasons graphite is one commodity mineral we cannot afford to be sanctioned.