{"id":136035,"date":"2024-12-13T09:15:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T07:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/child-labour-nigerias-lithium-mines-reveal-the-dark-side-of-our-electric-future\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T09:15:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T07:15:30","slug":"child-labour-nigerias-lithium-mines-reveal-the-dark-side-of-our-electric-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/child-labour-nigerias-lithium-mines-reveal-the-dark-side-of-our-electric-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Child labour: Nigeria\u2019s lithium mines reveal the dark side of our electric future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136035\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Children as young as five-years-old were found to be working in one illegal mine. Electric vehicles, laptops, battery packs, smartphones&#8230;it&#8217;s a long list of items we rely on every day that rely on a key material: lithium. But have you stopped to think who mines for this precious metal?<\/p>\n<p>In northern Nigeria, it has been found to be children. Lithium mining is dangerous and exhausting work. Miners descend several feet into dark pits then wield axes to hack through rocks. In some old but viable mines, they crawl through yards of snaky, narrow passages, wedging themselves between unstable mud walls before starting to dig.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullahi Sabiu has spent years in these pits after he started working the mines at 20. \u201cI know that mining activities are dangerous, and there are disadvantages, but every profession has its own disadvantages, including driving, and death is unpredictable,&#8221; says the lithium miner in Nassarawa state, north central Nigeria. &#8221;Someone might be riding on a motorcycle, and a driver could knock him down and die,&#8221; Abdullahi added.<\/p>\n<p>For new mines, the ground is first blasted open with dynamite, which is usually smuggled because a license is required to keep the chemical, sending tremors across the land. Despite being aware of the dangers many, like Abdulahi, continue to mine. For them, this is more about survival.<\/p>\n<p>Battery breakthrough: Scientists invent cheap aluminium-sulphur alternative to lithium-ion batteries<br \/>\nWe\u2019re facing a lithium battery crisis: What are the alternatives? The reason why I went into the mining business is so that I can take care of myself, my wives, and my children. It generally helps me to take care of my needs, and we cannot wait for the government to help us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps unbeknownst to him and others, once sorted the minerals are bagged, beginning their journey from his rural village of Pasali in Nassarawa State, near the federal capital Abuja, to the global electricals market. Their work feeds the stock of Chinese businesses, who dominate Nigeria\u2019s laxly regulated extractive industry and are often blamed for illegal mining and exploitative labour.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/12\/13\/child-labour-nigerias-lithium-mines-reveal-the-dark-side-of-our-electric-future\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/12\/13\/child-labour-nigerias-lithium-mines-reveal-the-dark-side-of-our-electric-future\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/child-labour-nigerias-lithium-mines-reveal-the-dark-side-of-our-electric-future\/\">Child labour: Nigeria\u2019s lithium mines reveal the dark side of our electric future<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[390,17308,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-136035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-child-labour","tag-nigerias-lithium","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}