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Mining key battery components is inevitably a process that involves major environmental and social impacts, including major and permanent landscape disruptions, and the generation of high-volume legacy wastes.

Unifor president Jerry Dias is pictured at a press conference at the Ford Connectivity and Innovation Centre in Ottawa on Oct. 8, 2020. The issue of Canada’s potential contributions to electric vehicle supply chains, especially batteries, from the mining of primary components like lithium and other metals, through to design and manufacturing, has been at the centre of discussions about their widespread adoption, write Mark Winfield and Sumeet Sooch. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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