The Australian Rio Tinto announced that, since the elections have passed, they will try to restore the Jadar project. Savo Manojlović from Kreni-Promeni says it will cause a riot. In the Ecological Uprising, they agree. At the same time, it was discovered that Canadian Eurolithium is polluting the earth
The inhabitants of Gornji Nedeljice and environmental activists welcomed the discovery of "Vremen" as a triumph. The draft of Rio Tinto's study on the environment that we came up with points to numerous hazards of the mine in the Jadra valley. On the ground, the battle continues, because the general belief is that neither the government nor the company have given up on local lithium.
Under the slogan "Third Serbian Uprising", environmental organizations are once again promoting the radicalization of the protest against Rio Tinto for Saturday. In addition to the already usual traffic stop, the novelty is the blockade of the Trbušnica border crossing near Loznica. Minister Brnabić said that in that case "the state will react"
From the meeting in Gornji Milanovac, environmental activists announced: next Saturday road blockades across Serbia and one border crossing. Radicalization follows because the deadline given to the authorities to withdraw the Spatial Plan of the special purpose area for the "Jadar" project has expired
On the first working day of the new year, protests against Rio Tinto and lithium mining in the Jadra valley continued under the slogan "We know we don't give". The Union of Environmental Organizations of Serbia called for a road blockade, but the response was modest
Vesna Jovljević from the environmental organization "Osna" says that Rio Tinto is "just one step away from the construction permit", that she regrets that there was a disagreement among the organizers of the blockade, but that she is glad that the ultimate goal is "Kreni-Change", which will not participate in today's protests, and all other environmental organizations, the adoption of a moratorium on the construction of mines in the Jadra valley
Manojlović reproached Zelenović for "breaking the agreement" that the demands of the protest would not be expanded and said that they would backfire if new demands were added every week. Zelenović denied that such an agreement existed and said that the matter with 100.000 people on the streets now "needs to be nailed down" with additional requests to urgently pass a law banning lithium mining in the Jadra valley once and for all and replace the members and head of REM
On Thursday, the Government of Serbia will vote on changes to the Law on Expropriation. The basic court in Valjevo issued a temporary ban on the work of the company Euro Lithium Balkan following the lawsuit of the "March from Kolubare" movement.
