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GE study finds 5% of worlds natural gas production wasted per year by flaring

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Elsewhere in West Africa, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo and Cameroon collectively waste about 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas every year. —David Victor, director of the Laboratory on International Law & Regulation at the University of California San Diego. Expand access to financing.

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BMW Group commissions study on sustainable lithium extraction

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The BMW Group has commissioned two US universities to conduct a scientific analysis of water consumption in the lithium extraction process. The aim of the University of Alaska-Anchorage and University of Massachusetts-Amherst study will be to investigate the impacts of lithium extraction on the hydrologic environment in Latin America.

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Canada’s Trudeau suggests China uses slave labor in lithium production – ET Auto

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Chinese firms own, operate or finance most of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s cobalt mines, the Labor Department said in a recent report. The United States has alleged use of forced labor by China in sectors including mining and construction. Last year, a U.S.

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