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Project Jadar

21.October 2024 B. B.

The European left called on the Government of Serbia and the EU to abandon lithium mines

The European left emphasized that the message of tens of thousands of citizens of Serbia at mass protests against the destructive project of the Rio Tinto company is clear: the health of our planet and the well-being of communities must take precedence over corporate profits

Project Jadar

19.October 2024 MJ

Blockades in Preljina and Gornji Nedeljice: "We will not give up the protest"

Roadblocks were organized in Preljina and Gornji Nedeljice, and after the government refused to adopt the law on the permanent ban on lithium and boron mining. The blockades started at 14 pm and lasted for one hour

Comment

18.October 2024 Davor Lukacs

Prince Vidoje of Loznica

The mayor of Loznica, Vidoje Petrović, known by the nickname Knez, resigned, as he had been in that position for 20 years and no one could do anything for him. Petrović submitted his resignation at the beginning of August, but he only activated it now, seeing in which direction the protests against lithium mining are going.

Lithium mining in Serbia

18.October 2024 Srećko Matić (DW)

The problems of Germany and Serbia's lithium deal: "We cannot export our own environmental problems"

Because of the lithium deal between Serbia and Germany, would our country make an ecological sacrifice for the sake of the German economic boom? And would Germany thus become dependent on Serbia? German economist Claudia Kaempfert, who deals with energy and environmental protection, talks about this

Germany

16.October 2024 Srećko Matić / DW

Protest against Project "Jadar" in Berlin as well: "You won't be able to do it anymore"

A protest in Berlin against lithium mining in Serbia was held on October 15, attended by German environmental activists and young people from the Balkans, mostly from Serbia.

After the rejection of the law in the assembly: Radicalization of the protest in the announcement?

Project "Jadar"

12.October 2024 TS

"You will not dig": What actions are environmental activists planning for the coming week

Environmental activists have announced new protests and actions after the rejection of a bill banning lithium mining in the National Assembly. There will be protests in Loznica, but also in Berlin. Zlatko Kokanović from the association "Ne damo Jadar" warns of blockades throughout Serbia

Project Jadar

11.October 2024 B. B.

Rio Tinto: Willing to provide a financial guarantee for remediation of possibly contaminated land, but will not say how much

If it is allowed to continue with the implementation of the Jadar project, the company Rio Tinto will provide financial guarantees for the costs of rehabilitation and recultivation of land possibly degraded due to exploitation

TV maniac

09.October 2024 Dragan Ilic

Battery Alliance, Parliamentary and Global

In Minister Handanović's speech, all the statements of prolithium experts that you could hear and see at guest appearances in previous months were enumerated. Indeed, someone systematically and persistently fooled viewers with the same half-truths on all channels in turn

Lithium market

09.October 2024 IN THE

Rio Tinto sold competitors for 6,7 billion: Now it is at the top of the lithium market

Rio Tinto has announced that it will buy US company Arcadium Lithium for $6,7 billion, making it one of the world's largest lithium producers.

Project "Jadar"

08.October 2024 B. B.

RERI: Rio Tinto wants to portray the environmental impacts of the "Jadar" project as smaller than they are

The company Rio Tinto submitted a request to determine the scope and content of the environmental impact assessment study, in which it stated that the project only refers to the exploitation of lithium ore and boron from the underground mine, so it is not known what types of waste and wastewater will be generated. RERI announced

Analyze

06.October 2024 S.Ć.

Economists: The Jadar project is not justified and should be stopped

The Jadar project should be suspended - this is the result of an analysis signed by economic experts Zoran Drakulić, Boško Mijatović, Danica Popović and Dejan Šoškić

One of the world's powerhouses: Rio Tinto

Lithium mining

06.October 2024 NR

Rio Tinto takes over Arcadia: Looking for eight billion dollars?

The mining company Rio Tinto, which plans to mine jadarite in Serbia, plans to buy a large competitor, Arkadium, and thus get access to large deposits and powerful customers.

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.

Lithium mining

04.October 2024 MJ

"We're going under the excavators": How far will the fight against lithium go?

Until now, many activists, politicians and of course residents of Gornji Nedeljice have said that lithium mining will be prevented even if they go under the excavator. The session on lithium is scheduled for October 7. Will there be a radicalization of the protest after the session?

Political struggle

23.September 2024 B. B.

Only lithium unites the opposition - special elections are currently meaningless

Only if it gathers around the ban on lithium mining and the expulsion of the Rio Tinto company from Serbia can the opposition unite. You shouldn't even think about extraordinary elections in undemocratic conditions, "Vremen" interlocutors from opposition parties agree

Politics

23.September 2024 SZ

Rašković Ivić: Kosovo handed over on a platter, people don't notice

Psychiatrist and former MP Sanda Rašković Ivić pointed out the critical situation in society, because, as she says, the president has become an "all-powerful man" who handed over Kosovo "on a platter", and people don't notice it.

Locals vs Corporation

20.September 2024 Miodrag Šorić / Jelena Đukić-Pejić / DW

Lithium or tradition: Conflict over mines in the Jadra valley

The conflict over lithium in the Jadra valley. Farmers in Gornji Nedeljice are firmly against the lithium mine, while Rio Tinto claims the project is safe

Available to the public

17.September 2024 B. B.

The "Jadar" project is on public view for the first time

In the next 15 days, public inspection of the first document in the procedure for the preparation of the Environmental Impact Assessment Study for the mining part of the "Jadar" project was made possible.

Project Jadar

13.September 2024 B. B.

Lithium mining can alienate citizens from EU integration, but that depends primarily on the EU

Lithium mining can distance the citizens of Serbia from the ideas of European integration, but that depends first of all on the EU, and on the citizens of Serbia. US Ambassador Christopher Hill's statement that he sees the protests against lithium as a fight against the road to the West is disputed, because Hill does not see that the protests are trying to convey that the citizens of Serbia are not against the road to the EU or against the West, but that they feel that the EU and the West have failed them. , says political analyst Ognjen Gogić for "Vreme".

NSPM research

11.September 2024 Đorđe Vukadinović and the NSPM research team

The People v. Rio Tinto

In two months of intense regime campaign, the percentage of opponents of Rio Tinto increased from 55,5 to almost 60 percent. And the number of supporters of the "Jadar" project also dropped, albeit slightly, to below 25 percent of the total number of respondents. When asked who will benefit the most from the eventual opening of a lithium mine, only 21,7 percent of the respondents said that they are "citizens of Serbia", while a total of almost three quarters believe that Rio Tinto, Germany and the "current government" will benefit the most.

Project "Jadar"

11.September 2024 MN

If it opens the mine, Rio Tinto plans to stay in Serbia for 40 years

"If the 'Jadar' project is implemented, we will be in Serbia for at least another 40 years. But before we open the mine, we have to prove to the Government and the citizens of Serbia that we can do it safely," Rio Tinto told the Voice of America.

Project "Jadar"

11.September 2024 NR

Sixty percent of citizens are against the Rio Tinto mine

Citizens' opposition to jadarite mining grew even stronger during the summer, according to the NSPM survey, which is exclusively published by "Vreme". The government can count on support only from pensioners and people with primary education

President of Serbia in Podrinje

10.September 2024 IN THE

Vučić's fifteen-hour TV show: Just let it be cheerful

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić stayed in Podrinje for five days, where he made pancakes, was a basketball coach for children, wore cleats to school, rode with Dodik, attended a military exercise, visited a hospital, a church, a distillery and a dairy. During this time, Prishtina cements its statehood in Kosovo and removes the last signs of the Serbian state

09.September 2024 B. B.

Lawyer Đorđević: Serbia would probably not have to pay compensation if it terminated cooperation with Rio Tinto

Lawyer Sreten Đorđević pointed out that his office determined that Rio Tinto had been violating regulations extensively since the beginning of its work in Serbia and that it had been doing so until the end of 2021, and that at the beginning of 2022 the Regulation on the Spatial Plan of Special Purpose Areas for the Project was repealed. Sailor"

Armament

08.September 2024 B. B.

Juratović: Vučić with "bursts" is either preparing Serbia for NATO or buying influence

Either Serbia is preparing to join NATO, which would significantly contribute to peace and security in the region, or Aleksandar Vučić is using armaments to buy international influence, to the detriment of Serbian citizens, said German Bundestag member Josip Juratović.

The President of Serbia talks to the citizens of Ljubovia

Mine and politics

08.September 2024 MS

Vučić's marathon in Podrinje: Who is the circus performer here?

The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, continued his cruise around Serbia, and so on Saturday it was his turn to talk with the citizens again, but this time in Ljubovia. The main topic was again the "Jadar" project and a little more - roads, water supply, subsidies... While the president of the Freedom and Justice Party Dragan Đilas says that Vučić's circus will soon be locked, Vučić replies that it is a circus that the opposition does nothing

Lithium fever

06.September 2024 MJ

Faculty of Biology in Belgrade: "We are not responsible for the results of the Rio Tinto study"

The Faculty of Biology in Belgrade issued a statement on the occasion of the publication of the draft study on the assessment of the impact of the jadarite mine project on the environment, which was prepared by the company Rio Sava Explorejšn doo Belgrade, a branch of the company Rio Tinto. The report states that the faculty distances itself from the conclusions drawn in the aforementioned study

AFTER THE BUYOUT OF THE RIO TINTO COMPANY: Part of Gornji Nedeljice

Lithium

06.September 2024 NR

Rio Tinto is selling the last house in Gornji Nedeljice

The mining giant already owns 51 of the 52 houses on the site of the planned mine. Now he is buying the rest