I remember reading about these tailing ponds in the 2000s, back when reliance on rare earths was less than it is now. Clearly not in a rush to do anything about it!

In Alberta Canada we have a trillion plus litre toxic sludge pond for the tar sands oil extraction thats only going away by leaking into the local environment.

problem here is not with the RE technology but with absence of adequate wastewater treatment .

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Amid the Media-ocrity, this is superb and important. Thanks for the excellent work to this journalist. Conclusion hits the nail on the head.

In the USA we have over 20,000 toxic ponds !!

Yep wind power is very green. With all those toxic chemicals and the fact that gearboxes need replacing about every 7 years, and when the turbine has come to the end of its use, it can't be recycled, and basically goes to landfill.

So much for clean energy..

Sales of EVs should be suspended until this problem is solved and can be made in way that doesn’t kill people

profit and greed for some, cancer and lost homes for others.

Good reporting

The problem is, once a new technology is developed, the rush to be the market leader $£$£ overturns any responsible long term planning on any environmental impacts, health reduction to the population, staff etc... risk is always played down for immediate profits along with weak planning. Most industries and big businesses then try to pay their way out of any mess, after they have fully exploited the resources £€£$s and moved on to something else. The mess is usually left to charities to clean up and donations from poor people to clean the mess up. These charities might get a million pound or maybe ten million pounds in donations from some of these big companies who try and do their bit for the clean up by supporting a good cause/PR, brand protection and good advertising. However, that is nothing from the billions taken from curating the mess in the first place. It's the same mentality goverments apply to starting wars. At the start, it will be over before Christmas, it's the right thing, we have the technology to win this, 10 years on and lots of dead people and plenty of unplanned destruction to towns and cities, later.....goverments pay their way out of the mess.

Did the problem get worse, recently?

If they can do that to their own country, imagine...#weatherwithyou

Corruption 101

China 🇨🇳 clean this disaster up! ☣️☠️😤😡

Even copper is becoming a rare metal all are used in solar panels and electric cars.

The West dont have it. If the West can get rare earths, it would have the same problem. All mining has this problem.

Batteries!

Next time they should have blurred their faces.

Sounds like thourum

Not to mention all those wind blades can’t be buried or recycled so they just pile up

Isn't China lovely?

Solving one crisis we end up with another. And we have barely started with clean energy imagine 100%renewable. What ever less is imp and we humans need to learn low impact life.

One way or another Human destination is near to an end sooner or later....

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According GREENPEACE regulations

El problema es la dependencia estratégica de China sobre occidente. China puede utilizar las tierras raras para hacer jaque mate a occidente o como mínimo coaccionarnos, y tal vez dentro de 20 años miremos atrás en el tiempo con nostalgia de que en un pasado pudimos haber invertido en tierras raras a pesar de destruir zonas locales de nuestros países pero que nos darían independencia. De hecho, sospecho que el gobierno chino ha dejado justamente que se vea la cara mala de estas tierras raras para que así los occidentales no queramos dichas minas y así meternos nosotros mismos dentro de la cabeza del lobo, dragón en este caso... Pues sin dichos elementos no tendremos tecnología, energía ni tampoco armamento...

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Meanwhile in Alberta the tarsands are an environmental catastrophe...

I'm worried to lives of this people

Reasons why we need to start mining in space!

Depression

Chinese government employment . What a job!

the truth is out there

How long has the world been around? And how long is it taking man to destroy it. 😔

What options are we left with? Nuclear energy?

I am sick of these fake narratives

When I grow up I want go be a firetruck...

Would we even have clima changes if everybody was hold to the standard of the West.

Every one in China who find such environmental unfriendly things and the bad conducts of the a factory. They can just call the environment hotline to report this! I strongly suggest the so called “journalist” here to do more homework rather than repeat the same cliché and reinforce the same prejudiced stereotypes. Try to report something constructive and relevant and urgent now! Say Japan is threatening to pour their radiation waste water into Pacific Ocean!

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The West should work with China but not depend on it. Much can be learnt from the situation with Russian oil and gas.

if the west start mining rare earths then they will have the exact same problem. also didnt usa backed out of paris agreement?

The Chinese would call this Anti Chinese propaganda.

Duped

Green energy is the biggest country ever tried

the us sending the raw materials to be processed there as well

sky is the best reporting on earth but knows nothing about saving face in asia it seems.

Clean energy is just some kind of scam.

Green energy! Ha no such thing as

Some good points here, though none of this ever bothered the oil companies. At least once mined, these elements are recyclable, unlike fossil fuels which just “waft away!”

Let it flow down to India

Ooh, ok, pandemic prevention control.. Hmm😊

So?

Democrats say this isn't real

Rare Earth metals are actually common in everywhere but Europe. Europe is the Peninsula of Asia is why.

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This is a direct result of our battery powered everything battery powered cars mainly..... Yet our fossil fuel vehicles don't have this and our oilfield workers in America are paid well

Tell this to climate warriors in the west. They just don't see the full picture.

This why, no country want to extract this rare-earth. China sacrifice to do this.. Every glory need sacrifice...

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This happens in the us more than China

There are so many amazing things going on in China where you'd think they were great and talented people, but none of this is reported by Sky, only things to knock them down by. I sense there is a sense of jealousy. The Western media has so little to report in the way of UK industrial progress that it can only find dirt on others, whether true or not. By the way, China's renewable energy plan is doing very well and much new technology is being created over that way.