SvennoJ said:
Nature suffers anyway
The Altmark is a historic, sparsely populated region in northern Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, known as the "Cradle of Prussia," rich in medieval history with Hanseatic towns like Stendal and Salzwedel, beautiful half-timbered houses, numerous cycling paths (Elbe Cycle Route), and natural areas like the Drömling biosphere, offering a quiet escape with deep cultural roots and recent lithium extraction potential.
https://www.niedersachsen-tourism.com/poi/unesco-biosphaerenreservat-droemling
The Drömling Biosphere Reserve is a unique, protected wetland landscape straddling the border of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, recognized by UNESCO for balancing biodiversity conservation with sustainable human use, featuring a "land of a thousand ditches," rare water birds, and a rich mix of natural and cultural heritage shaped by water management. It's a vital refuge for endangered species, a place of ecological importance with rich plant/insect life, and an area for sustainable farming and tourism, representing a successful reunification of a historically divided landscape.
That's a Lithium mine in Africa
Here locally they're digging up the wetlands, forest and remaining 'wilderness' aroudn the Grand River for sand and gravel :/ And while at first promising to rehabilitate the area, now they're building distribution centers and houses on it...
Actually, open pit mining shouldn't happen, direct lithium extraction is proposed for the area. So more like this.
Better in many ways but still has plenty issues
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-022-00387-5 |
Nature always suffers when humans do anything so that's kinda obvious.
The Altmark is not a very special region in Germany in terms of landscape, there are lots like it. However it also contains a big natural gas field where production already started in 1969, so it's not like a facility to extract Lithium would ruin the untouched nature in that region.
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