First Quantum suspends 7,000 contract workers at Panama mine

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/first-quantum-suspends-7000-contract-workers-panama-mine-2023-11-30/

🇵🇦🇨🇦 Panama trade minister resigns after mining contract backlash

Panama's Trade Minister Federico Alfaro announced his resignation on Thursday days after the country's top court ruled a contract between the government and Canadian miner First Quantum was unconstitutional.

The trade ministry led negotiations on a contract between the government and First Quantum to operate a key copper mine, which opponents have deemed as too generous to the miner.

In a resignation letter addressed to the president and shared on social media, Alfaro mentioned the contract, which generated months of protest throughout Panama, as well as the court ruling.

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📢 🇫🇮 🇨🇳 "Everything indicates" a Chinese ship damaged the Baltic pipeline on purpose, Finland said.

https://www.politico.eu/article/balticconnector-damage-likely-to-be-intentional-finnish-minister-says-china-estonia/

🇻🇪🇺🇸Exports of Venezuelan crude oil to the US increased 308% between January and September
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🇨🇳 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 The Critical Minerals to China, EU, and U.S. National Security

🔶️ Over the last decade, minerals like nickel, copper, and lithium have been on these lists and deemed essential for clean technologies like EV batteries and solar and wind power.

🔶️ China produces 60% of all rare earth elements used as components in high-technology devices, including smartphones and computers. The country also has a 13% share of the lithium production market. In addition, it refines around 35% of the world’s nickel, 58% of lithium, and 70% of cobalt.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-critical-minerals-to-china-eu-and-u-s-national-security/

☢️ 🇺🇸 🌍 Declaration to Triple Nuclear Energy
02 December 2023

🔶️ Recognizing the key role of nuclear energy in achieving global net-zero greenhouse gas emissions / carbon neutrality by or around mid-century and in keeping a 1.5°C limit on temperature rise within reach and achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7;

🔶️ Recognizing the importance of the applications of nuclear science and technology that contribute to monitoring climate change and tackling its impacts, and emphasizing the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in this regard;

🔶️ Recognizing that nuclear energy is already the second-largest source of clean dispatchable baseload power, with benefits for energy security;

🔶️ Recognizing that analyses from the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and World Nuclear Association show that global installed nuclear energy capacity must triple by 2050 in order to reach global net-zero emissions by the same year;

🔶️ Recognizing that analysis from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows nuclear energy approximately tripling its global installed electrical capacity from 2020 to 2050 in the average 1.5°C scenario;

🔶️ Recognizing that analysis from the International Energy Agency shows nuclear power more than doubling from 2020 to 2050 in global net-zero emissions by 2050 scenarios and shows that decreasing nuclear power would make reaching net zero more difficult and costly;

🔶️ Recognizing that new nuclear technologies could occupy a small land footprint and can be sited where needed, partner well with renewable energy sources, and have additional flexibilities that support decarbonization beyond the power sector, including hard-to-abate industrial sectors;

🔶️ Recognizing the IAEA’s activities in supporting its Member States, upon request, to include nuclear power in their national energy planning in a sustainable way that adheres to the highest standards of safety, security, and safeguards and its “Atoms4NetZero” initiative as an opportunity for stakeholders to exchange expertise;

🔶️ Recognizing the importance of financing for the additional nuclear power capacity needed to keep a 1.5°C limit on temperature rise within reach;

🔶️ Recognizing the need for high-level political engagement to spur further action on nuclear power;

https://www.energy.gov/articles/cop28-countries-launch-declaration-triple-nuclear-energy-capacity-2050-recognizing-key

🇻🇪🇬🇾 The ICJ rules in favor of Guyana and orders Venezuela to avoid taking actions that change the current situation in Essequibo:

"Until a final decision on the controversy is adopted, Venezuela will refrain from taking any measure that modifies the situation of the territory under the administration of Guyana."

Thus, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) recognizes that Guyana administers and controls the Essequibo territory.

The ICJ further noted that there is a real and imminent risk of irreparable harm to Guyana, and therefore took two provisional measures:

1) Venezuela must refrain from carrying out actions that modify the current situation of the disputed territory.

2) Both parties must avoid actions that aggravate or extend the dispute.

🗳 🇻🇪 🇬🇾 Venezuelan military moving election boxes by donkey in remote areas ahead of tomorrows Esequibo referendum. 🫏

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