Green Car Congress
APRIL 4, 2011
Although Nigeria has reduced flare gas emissions by 28% from 2000 levels, the country’s oil industry still wastes 15bcm of natural gas every year. Elsewhere in West Africa, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo and Cameroon collectively waste about 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas every year.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
Around 60% of the world’s cobalt supply comes from the mineral-rich Katanga Copper belt, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Previous research by KU Leuven and the University of Lubumbashi (2009) had already found high concentrations of trace metals in the urine of people living close to mines. —Benoit Nemery.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Roughly 60% of mined cobalt is sourced from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. The element is often recovered as a byproduct from mining copper and nickel, meaning that demand and pricing for those other metals affects the availability of cobalt.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 30, 2020
In 2019, the US produced an estimated 500 metric tons of Co from a nickel-copper mine in Michigan and mine tailings in Missouri (less than 1% of global mine production), plus an additional 2,700 metric tons in secondary production (recycled materials, post-industrial, and post-consumer materials). There are 6.8
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 24, 2018
Now in its twentieth year, the biennial report is produced by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. India and Bangladesh come in near the bottom of the rankings, with Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nepal rounding out the bottom five.
Baua Electric
APRIL 29, 2023
Chinese firms own, operate or finance most of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s cobalt mines, the Labor Department said in a recent report. Last year, a U.S. law took effect banning imports from China’s Xinjiang region over concerns about forced labor.
Green Car Congress
MAY 17, 2010
A team of researchers led by Brown University has found that Lake Tanganyika in east Africa—the second-oldest and the second-deepest lake in the world—has experienced unprecedented warming in the last century. As the lake gets warmer, we expect productivity to decline, and we expect that it will affect the [fishing] industry.
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