{"id":59529,"date":"2021-09-26T12:53:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T17:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59529"},"modified":"2021-09-26T12:53:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T17:53:58","slug":"the-greenwashing-of-gold-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59529","title":{"rendered":"The greenwashing of gold mining"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The greenwashing of gold mining<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Bjornevatn mine, Norway. Photo: Svein Lund<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n

New mining projects are being re-branded clean, green and vital to climate action across Europe. The reality is very different.<\/div>\n
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There has been\u00a0a surge in the number of mining projects and a massive expansion of areas under mining concession in the island of Ireland, Fennoscandia and across Europe in recent years.<\/p>\n

As much as 27 percent\u00a0of the Republic of Ireland and 25 percent\u00a0of Northern Ireland is\u00a0under mining concession, with a single company, Dalradian Resources, holding concessions for 10 percent\u00a0of the latter’s land area.<\/p>\n

Read YLNM’s new\u00a0island of Ireland and Fennoscandia research dispatches now.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Nordic nations have issued mining exploration permits covering millions of hectares of land, including in Sapm\u00ed, the homeland of the S\u00e1mi Indigenous People.<\/p>\n

Re-frame<\/strong><\/p>\n

Up to 11 percent\u00a0of Finland\u2019s land area is under different types of concessions –\u00a02,122 km2\u00a0under active exploration and 25,361km2\u00a0under reservation, and more under exploration and reservation applications.<\/p>\n

In Norway, 6,698 km2\u00a0is currently under exploration and in Sweden 10,290 km2. Metal production in Finland and Sweden has increased substantially over the last 10 years.<\/p>\n

Two new research dispatches<\/a>\u00a0from the campaign\u00a0organisation\u00a0Yes to Life, No to Mining Network (YLNM) explore how these nations – and the mining industry – are pursuing expansion.<\/p>\n

They are doing this by re-framing metal mining as a solution to climate change in order to facilitate domestic extraction of so-called \u2018strategic\u2019, \u2018critical\u2019 and \u2018transition\u2019 minerals required for renewable energy, transportation, military and digital technologies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The most pressing question isn\u2019t where new mining should happen. It is how we can immediately and dramatically reduce the need for new mines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The greenwashing of gold mining Bjornevatn mine, Norway. Photo: Svein Lund New mining projects are being re-branded clean, green and vital to climate action across Europe. The reality is very different. There has been\u00a0a surge in the number of mining projects and a massive expansion of areas under mining concession in the island of Ireland, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10538,9567,25985,31847,31848,1482,31849],"class_list":["post-59529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-ecologist","tag-gold-mining","tag-greenwashing","tag-hannibal-rhoades","tag-lynda-sullivan","tag-mining","tag-mirko-nikolic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59530,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59529\/revisions\/59530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}