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Government wants to bring lithium giants in time for elections
In the new strategy for lithium, Government assumes the goal of bringing large international groups to the sector. "But this can only be achieved with scale," which justifies the installation of a factory in Portugal, warns the Secretary of State for Energy.
Luísa Pinto
March 11, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
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Portugal is well positioned in the global interest for lithium ADRIANO MIRANDA
The Secretary of State for Energy, João Galamba, without compromising with deadlines or dates, assumes a goal: to be able to launch before the October elections that will dictate the formation of a new Government an international public tender to choose who will do prospecting, research and exploitation of lithium in Portugal. Speaking to PÚBLICO, the governor explains that a single public tender will be launched, with the 11 areas (which have passed to nine, however) identified with the extraction potential of this ore, "to enable the entry of a large international player [group] in the sector ".
"We are not going to run a tender to turn lithium mining to companies that simply take a few stones out of the ground and export them. We want to ensure that we can do this with scale, in order to justify the construction of a factory in Portugal, "explains the Secretary of State for Energy.
"Portugal has to guarantee a leading position in Europe's lithium strategy"
According to João Galamba, the Directorate-General for Energy has already done its part and has everything prepared for the launch of the competition, and the terms of reference are all defined. In fact, this same work had already been done by the previous team (with Jorge Seguro Sanches in the Secretary of State for Energy and Mário Guedes in the Directorate General of Energy and Geology).
With the passage to the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Transition (MATE) and with the Secretary of State now assumed by João Galamba, the processes are being articulated with all the organizations of the State that protect the environment. "We do not want to run the risk of launching a tender, and then come to the Portuguese Environment Agency, or another body of territorial planning, to invoke that there can be no prospecting or exploration in that area. We do not want this embarrassment, "explained Galamba, adding that this prior work will not prevent" naturally "from being released, and as required by law, the necessary environmental impact assessment and studies. It is this preliminary work that, according to João Galamba, explains why the public tender for the exploration, exploration and exploration of the gold mines in Jales, Vila Pouca de Aguiar has not yet been launched.
It is true that the report of the Lithium Working Group - which was given over two years ago and identified the areas of greatest potential for exploitation - already underlined that the feasibility of producing carbonate and / or lithium hydroxide at scale of the entire country could be jeopardized if it were fostered "the creation of individual non-economic projects". Individual projects such as those already underway in Sepeda, Montalegre (where there was a real war between the private sector to get the concession) or in Covas do Barroso, Boticas (where there is a lot of local population contestation ). Both concessions involve Australian companies, the country that has the most experience and dimension in the mining sector.
The lithium Working Group drew attention to the need for Portugal to develop knowledge and test technologies for the entire resource valorisation chain, underlining the importance, in this philosophy, of the processing of ores to obtain lithium and subsequent mineral concentrates metallurgical processes to obtain lithium compounds. Therefore, he recommended the creation of an Experimental Mining-Metallurgical Unit. And in the National Strategy for Lithium , adopted in January last year, all those concerns were guarded. However, since then, more than 30 requests for prospecting and research by private companies to start work on the land remain unanswered.
It has been known for a number of years that these requests, many of them overlapping, confirm that Portugal is in the sights of many investors (and "prospectors") in the global lithium race, driven by justified demand for electric mobility, given the electric cars have lithium-ion batteries. The race is, in fact, global, and within the European continent Portugal is well positioned to be one of the countries with the highest reserves identified.
Tight environmental legislation
One aspect that according to the Secretary of State for Energy is being considered in the new public tenders for exploration and mining is the obligation of the future concessionaire to permanently carry out the work to reduce future environmental impacts. "It will have to do the necessary works to minimize these impacts during the entire period of exploration," says the official. João Galamba recognizes that nowadays it would be difficult to see the scenario that occurred in the past, when the mines closed, the concessionaries left and environmental requalification was still to be done - this requalification has been made by the Mining Development Company, using public funds (see text on the side). "Even though this is impossible because environmental legislation prevents it,
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