Rio Tinto has changed its management in Serbia. The company in the phase of "supervision and maintenance of the Jadar project" is now led by local directors
Expropriation is coming to Gornje Nedeljice with the machines this time, according to the locals. Everything indicates that the gas pipeline that was previously planned together with the lithium mine is being built. And if there are no mines, why is a gas pipeline being built?
Aborigines blame Rio Tinto for years of overuse for drying up a spring they have considered sacred for thousands of years
The team of the "March from the Drina" association announced that the Commission currently recognizes a strategic project that no longer exists in an operational sense and that keeping it on the list is indefensible under EU law
Mining giant Rio Tinto has suspended activities on a lithium mining project in the Yadar River Valley, according to Bloomberg, citing an internal company memo. The project, which for years caused resistance from the local community and environmental movements, was placed under the status of "care and maintenance"
Israeli political propagandist Asaf Eisin, a close associate and "friend" of President Aleksandar Vučić, was hired to lead a strategic communication campaign for the Rio Tinto company in the midst of protests against the Yadar project in 2021, BIRN reveals. Internal company documents indicate that Rio Tinto was aware of Eisin's connection with Vučić, but the engagement was approved anyway
Rio Tinto has agreed to pay $138,75 million to avoid legal action over claims it defrauded investors by hiding problems with an underground expansion of a copper and gold mine in Mongolia.
The European Commission made a decision to include the "Jadar" project in projects of strategic importance. What reactions have been received so far? What does the government say, what does the profession say, and what do the activists say? And how many citizens of Serbia oppose this project
The status of the strategic project requires compliance with EU standards for environmental protection and human rights, which will be reflected in the final capital cost
"The claims of certain media and parties that Serbia will be a European colony for mining turned out to be incorrect," says the President of the Serbian Parliament, Ana Brnabić.
The European Commission's decision to include the "Jadar" project among the EU's strategic projects is "proof that it is a bunch of hypocrites, actually greedy people, who have been supporting Aleksandar Vučić all these twelve years," the president of the Ecological Uprising, Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta, told Vreme.
Out of a total of 49 projects outside the member states of the European Union registered for the status of a project of strategic importance, the EU opted for thirteen - among them the "Jadar" project of Rio Tinta
The choice of Rio Tinto's new CEO will likely depend on how adept he is at finding scarce copper. And the company Rio Tinto Dunav Exploration has been cooperating for a long time with the Chinese in Bor, where a new amount of this metal was recently found
A hundred Serbian professors from Western universities demand that the EU get rid of the "Jadar" project and warn of unforeseeable consequences
After the decision of the European Commission not to include "Jadar" among the strategic projects, the Rio Tinto company also announced itself
The Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CINS) reveals that the experts of the Institute for Nature Protection were against the conditions that this institution issued to Rio Tinto. "...There are no conditions that will prevent the irreversible destruction of this area (at the locations of the exploitation field and the landfill) as well as the habitats of numerous species", it was written in one of the emails obtained by CINS.
The Jadra Valley, once synonymous with rural idyll, is now at the center of conflict over one of the largest lithium deposits in the world. While the company Rio Tinto promises ecologically sustainable exploitation, a strange alliance of environmentalists and nationalists organizes resistance, writes the German newspaper "Spiegel".
Representatives of the "Ne damo Jadar" association broke into the Hilton Hotel, where the Rio Tinto company's New Year's cocktail was held, to tell them that, as they said, "they will not dig". The company assessed that "opponents of the 'Jadar' project are trying to dispute the right of that company to operate in Serbia under conditions that apply to all others with unfounded accusations."
Following new investments in Argentina, Rio Tinto is on track to become the world's third largest lithium producer. The company is also counting on its Jadar project in Serbia to meet most of Europe's lithium needs
Rio Tinto CEO Jakob Stausholm denies claims by activists that the water in the valley will be contaminated with heavy metals, and notes that such "false information" is being spread on social networks. "As a company, we are not adequately prepared to deal with such misinformation," Stausholm said
The planned protest in Valjevo against Eurolithium turned into giving mail to the victims in Novi Sad, and announcing the liberation of Serbia.
By groundlessly reducing the "Jadar" enterprise to a mine, the fact is overlooked that the only reason it is being discussed may be the profit from the expected production in the field of electrical engineering. Depriving electrical technicians of the right to reason about it narrows the possibility of a conscientious and comprehensive check and increases the risk
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that Serbia can be sure that the EU, as far as lithium mining is concerned, will respect and preserve its "wonderful nature".
The well-known slogan "You won't dig" was shouted on Thursday at a protest against lithium mining in Čačak. Activist Zlatko Kokanović announced new blockades across Serbia
From rioting in the streets to parliamentary debate, every possible resource has been used in the fight against lithium mining. Actors are still one of the harshest critics of the "Jadar" project, and some of them are ready to, as they say, lose their lives because of lithium. Has lithium become a matter of life and death?
Another in a series of protests against lithium mining will be held on Thursday in Čačak, the SEOS organization announced.
Celebrated director Emir Kusturica requests that Pink not use his character with the help of artificial intelligence. Lawyer Zdenko Tomanović, whose office represents Kusturica, talks to "Vreme" about the use of deepfakes in a vulgarized society.
