Battery metals face gridlock: environmental advocates want green energy transition but also oppose mining, creating competing pressures that make it costly, time-consuming, and uncertain whether new battery metal projects will come online in workable timeframes, unlike copper which has universal demand.

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Lynn Alden

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people will say we don't want oil and gas we want battery metals and then they also will say oh but you you know mining is uh bad for the environment so you can't mine them and so we we kind of get into this gridlock position

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MacroVoices #386 Lyn Alden: Energy, Inflation & much moreMacro Voices
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:09:36 PM

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