Photo: FoNet"Vreme" had an insight into Rio Tinto's study on environmental impact assessment of the "Jadar" project. This eighty-page internal document lists the lasting effects of lithium mining on nature. The study goes into detail, even describing that the wheels of construction machines should be washed to reduce dust, or that free condoms should be provided in workers' accommodation.
Rio Tinto has not yet received a final decision from the Ministry of the Environment on the scope and content of the Environmental Impact Study of the Jadar project to be submitted. The postponement may have been due to political reasons, due to environmental protests and the April 3 election. However, an internal study of about eighty pages has been done.
The company's document states that in six decades, 9,5 million tons of material would be excavated from which lithium carbonate, boric acid and sodium sulfate would be obtained.
The workers would work in three eight-hour shifts, of which one hour would be a break, and half an hour would be entering and exiting the shaft.
Excerpts from the Study envisage the "relocation of a part of the population" of particularly endangered species, such as the plants large dubacac, large dewlap and marsh sedum. The measure of "relocation" of biotopes is something that many biologists consider controversial and actually impossible.
An internal document obtained by "Vreme" shows that the company acknowledges numerous negative impacts on the environment, on the rivers Jadar, Drina and on groundwater, stating that experience shows that the "economic-sociological impact" on the population is "the only thing that brings benefits". .
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