Electric vehicles and an Ontario mining conundrum
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How Much Impact Would Peat Lands Have on the Environment?
The idea is that we would use these minerals for electric car batteries, which are supposed to help the environment. But what kind of impact could developing the ring have, like even just building a road out there? Ye. If all the peat land area covered by mining claims in the ring of fire was disturbed, that would release n like a hundred, 30 and 250 mega tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. That's equivalent to the annual emissions from lake up to 280 million cars.
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