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Can any of you drive a lorry?

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Hauliers and poultry workers to get temporary visas

Up to 10,500 lorry drivers and poultry workers can receive temporary UK visas as the government seeks to limit disruption in the run-up to Christmas.

The government confirmed that 5,000 fuel tanker and food lorry drivers will be eligible to work in the UK for three months, until Christmas Eve.

The scheme is also being extended to 5,500 poultry workers.

The transport secretary said he did not want to “undercut” British workers but could not stand by while queues formed.

But the British Chambers of Commerce said the measures were the equivalent of “throwing a thimble of water on a bonfire”.

And the Road Haulage Association said the announcement “barely scratches the surface”, adding that only offering visas until Christmas Eve “will not be enough for companies or the drivers themselves to be attractive”.

Marc Fels, director of the HGV Recruitment Centre, said visas for lorry drivers were “too little” and “too late”.

However, the news was welcomed by freight industry group Logistics UK, which called the policy “a huge step forward in solving the disruption to supply chains”.

A shortage of lorry drivers has caused problems for a range of industries in recent months, from supermarkets to fast food chains.

In recent days, some fuel deliveries have been affected, leading to lengthy queues at petrol stations - despite ministers insisting the UK has plenty of fuel.

There are reports of dozens of cars queuing in London by 07:00 BST on Sunday morning, while many filling stations had signs up saying they had no fuel.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told the BBC’s Andrew Marr that there was enough fuel in the country and that if people were “sensible” and only filled up when they needed to there would not be shortages.

As well as allowing more foreign workers, other measures include using Ministry of Defence examiners to increase HGV (heavy goods vehicle) testing capacity, and sending nearly one million letters to drivers who hold an HGV licence, encouraging them back into the industry.

Officials said the loan of MoD examiners would help put on “thousands of extra tests” over the next 12 weeks.

Recruitment for additional short-term HGV drivers and poultry workers will begin in October.

Mr Shapps said: “We are acting now, but the industries must also play their part with working conditions continuing to improve and the deserved salary increases continuing to be maintained in order for companies to retain new drivers.”
Survey findings about why there are driver shortages

Logistics UK estimates that the UK is in need of about 90,000 HGV drivers - with existing shortages made worse by the pandemic, tax changes, Brexit, an ageing workforce, and low wages and poor working conditions.

The British Poultry Council has previously warned it may not have the workforce to process as many turkeys as normal this Christmas because it has historically relied on EU labour - but after Brexit it is now more difficult and expensive to use non-UK workers.

The Department for Transport said it recognised that importing foreign labour “will not be the long-term solution” to the problem and that it wanted to see employers invest to build a “high-wage, high-skill economy”.

It said up to 4,000 people would soon be able to take advantage of training courses to become HGV drivers.

This includes free, short, intensive courses, funded by the Department for Education, to train up to 3,000 new HGV drivers.

These new “skills bootcamps” will train drivers to be road ready and gain a Cat C or Cat C&E license, helping to tackle the current HGV driver shortage.

The remaining 1,000 drivers will be trained through courses accessed locally and funded by the government’s adult education budget, the DfT said.

Fuel tanker drivers need additional safety qualifications and the government said it was working with the industry to ensure drivers can access these as quickly as possible.

Mr Fels said many young people were “desperate” to get into the industry but couldn’t afford the thousands of pounds it costs to get a HGV license.

He called for the government to recognise the industry as a “vocation” and offer student loans to help fund training.

Sue Terpilowski, from the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, said conditions for drivers also needed to improve, pointing out that facilities such as overnight lorry parks were much better on the continent.

Richard Walker, managing director at supermarket Iceland, said it was “about time” ministers relaxed immigration rules in a bid to solve the HGV driver shortage and called for key workers, including food retail workers, to be prioritised at the pumps.

On Saturday the BBC spoke to a number of drivers who had queued or struggled to get fuel.

Jennifer Ward, a student paramedic of three years for Medicare EMS, which provides 999 frontline support to the East of England Ambulance Service, said she had to travel to five stations to get diesel for her ambulance.

Matt McDonnell, chief executive of Medicare EMS, said a member of staff cancelled their shift because they had been unable to get fuel and said he was waiting to see if the government would introduce measures to prioritise key workers, like they had for shopping during the pandemic.
’Thimble of water on a bonfire’

Industry groups the Food and Drink Federation and Logistics UK both welcomed the visa changes, with federation chief Ian Wright calling the measures “pragmatic”.

But the British Retail Consortium said the number of visas being offered would “do little to alleviate the current shortfall”.

It said supermarkets alone needed an additional 15,000 HGV drivers to operate at full capacity ahead of Christmas.

Labour’s shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the changes were needed but described them as “a sticking plaster at the eleventh hour”.

“Once again the government has been caught asleep at the wheel when they should have been planning for months for this scenario,” she told the BBC.

▻https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58694004

Seeds and beyond: Native Americans embrace ‘food sovereignty’

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Last spring, as COVID-19 swept the nation, Daniel Cornelius planted. A member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, he lives in the rolling farm country south of Madison, where he planted carrots and tomatoes, as well as traditional Native American crops – beans, pumpkins, and corn in hues ranging from cream to deep red and bearing names like Tuscarora white, Mohawk yellow, and Bear Island flint.

He helped others plant, too. In June he took his small walk-behind tractor north to help members of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa start gardens, heaping the soil in long mounded rows in imitation of traditional planting hills. He brought squash seeds to the reservation of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, where members have been building raised beds after ancient Menominee practice. He tapped box-elder trees for syrup and gathered wild rice, and in September he brought them to a bartering event on the Oneida reservation, near Green Bay, where he traded them for peppers, quail eggs, and corn soup.

“Almost everyone wanted that box-elder syrup,” he says.

Mr. Cornelius is part of a growing “food sovereignty” movement among Native Americans, an effort aimed at increasing local food production and reviving Indigenous agricultural and culinary practices. It’s a broad-ranging movement that includes families growing vegetables in backyard gardens and an ever-expanding network of regional and national organizations devoted to fostering intertribal cooperation, sharing agricultural know-how, and promoting the use and preservation of traditional crop varieties.

“People are hungry – literally hungry to eat these foods,” says Mr. Cornelius, who is also a technical adviser for the Intertribal Agriculture Council, based in Billings, Montana, and an instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “But also, in a more figurative sense, they’re just hungry for knowledge.”

For many Native Americans, the return to traditional foods is part of a wider effort to “decolonize” their people, a way to repair the economic and cultural damage inflicted by European Americans who drove them from their lands, confined them to reservations, sent them to boarding schools, and tried to sever them from their old ways. It means not just planting old seeds but reviving the economic and cultural life, the ceremonies, the customs and beliefs, around food and food production.

In a practical sense, food sovereignty offers a path toward greater self-sufficiency and economic opportunity in poor communities. Perhaps more critical are its potential benefits for public health. Native Americans face high rates of diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and other conditions that food sovereignty advocates say result from a dependence on processed foods.

“We’ve got to get back to a diet and food system that our bodies and our babies can handle,” says Gary Besaw, head of the Department of Agriculture and Food Systems on the Menominee reservation.

Since it emerged a year ago, COVID-19 has given new urgency to these efforts. The coronavirus hit Native American communities hard: In December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that Native Americans and Alaskan Natives were 3 1/2 times more likely than white Americans to become infected with the virus. Yet, while COVID-19 has revealed the vulnerability of Native peoples, it has also inspired more of them to plant, fish, gather, and hunt.

“People are seeing the weakness within our current food system,” says Rebecca Webster, who with her husband, Stephen, grows corn and other traditional crops on the Oneida reservation. “They want to know where their food is coming from. They want to take control back.”

Much of the food sovereignty movement focuses on seeds: growing and preserving them, as well as finding and distributing old and not-yet-forgotten varieties. Some of this work requires research, like figuring out where a seed company acquired its varieties long ago. It also involves hunting down a variety that someone has been growing – and then producing enough seed to share. Organizations like Seed Savers Exchange, based in Decorah, Iowa, and long devoted to promoting heirloom seeds, have in recent years been growing Native varieties and sending out seeds to a small number of established growers. In addition, an expanding universe of workshops and YouTube videos is available to teach aspiring growers how to use Native agricultural techniques.
The “Three Sisters”

The most popular seeds are the “Three Sisters” of Indigenous agriculture: corn, beans, and squash. They are traditionally grown together in mounds, as the Websters do on the Oneida reservation. The cornstalks serve as a trellis for the bean vines, while the beans, which are legumes, enrich the soil for the corn. The squash sprawls out all around. A modification of this strategy is to grow the corn and beans in mounded rows, with squash on the ends. Many Native growers also plant tobacco and sunflowers.

When the pandemic struck, the demand for seeds soared. People had more time at home; they also were rattled by local food shortages. On the Meskwaki Settlement in Tama, Iowa, Shelley Buffalo, local foods coordinator for the Meskwaki Food Sovereignty Initiative, grappled with a “huge increase” in requests for seeds. “There were many people who were gardening for the first time,” she says. Appeals to the Traditional Native American Farmers Association “nearly depleted what we had,” says Clayton Brascoupé, a farmer in Tesuque Pueblo, New Mexico, and the group’s program director.

“There were people contacting us from a lot of new places,” he says. “They said, ‘Can you send seed?’”

But it’s not all about seeds. Native Americans are also raising bison, spearing fish, picking chokecherries, harvesting wild rice – and much more.

It’s a movement that touches every tribe in the United States and reflects both the geographical and historical diversity of Native American communities. The Quapaw Nation of Oklahoma raises bison on lands recovered from lead and zinc mining and operates its own meat processing plant. The Muckleshoot of Washington state have hosted workshops on how to fillet a salmon and slice up an elk. Ndée Bikíyaa, or People’s Farm, is trying to revive agriculture among Arizona’s White Mountain Apache. Minnesota’s Red Lake Ojibwe sell mail-order wild rice and chokeberry jam. And in Hugo, Minnesota, just outside the Twin Cities, the organization Dream of Wild Health teaches Native children how to garden; a program for teenagers is called Garden Warriors.

“This year was a big wake-up call for our tribe,” says Greg Johnson, a member of the Lac du Flambeau Band and an expert in cooking muskellunge, a predatory fish found in northern lakes, which he does by wrapping it in birch bark and baking it in the ground, under a fire. Mr. Johnson says that worries over the food supply sent twice the number of his band than usual out to spear walleyed pike in northern Wisconsin lakes early last spring, a tradition among his people. More people hunted deer later in the year; he taught some of them how to can the venison.

“In many respects, for me it was really good to see that,” he says. “There were people you never thought would get wild rice. There were people who you never thought would get wild medicines. It was really incredible.”
Chef participation, too

Getting the food is only part of the movement. A growing number of chefs are promoting Native cuisine, among them Sean Sherman, an Oglala Lakota and recipient of a James Beard Award. The founder and CEO of The Sioux Chef business in Minneapolis, Mr. Sherman directs a food lab devoted to teaching Native culinary approaches. COVID-19 delayed his plan to open a restaurant, but it inspired a new form of outreach: ready-to-eat meals prepared in the Twin Cities and distributed to Native communities around the region. By December, a crew of 24 workers was sending 6,000 meals a week. It distributed 500 meal kits before the holidays, including the fixings for what Mr. Sherman describes as a Native grain bowl – Potawatomi corn, bison meat, dried blueberries, and puffed wild rice. “That was a fun one,” he says.

Efforts to revive Native foods are not new. Mr. Brascoupé recalls an intertribal meeting in Gallup, New Mexico, in 1992 at which older farmers voiced concerns about their dwindling numbers. “They also saw a decline in people’s health,” he says. “They tied those two together.”

In the years since, Mr. Brascoupé has seen a steady increase in the ranks of Native farmers. And what started as a rural movement, he says, has moved to cities, where many Native Americans live – to community gardening and programs teaching Native gardening and culture to children. Mr. Brascoupé attributes much of the resurgence not to tribal initiatives, which have become widespread, but to younger individuals carrying on the work of their elders. Once a young farmer himself, he now has grandchildren who farm.

“A lot of what we see now started with young people,” Mr. Brascoupé says. “It was more from the bottom up than the top down, from tribal governments.”

Indeed, the food sovereignty movement builds upon the perseverance and determination of individuals and families who have worked over many years to keep Native food traditions alive. One of these people is Luke Kapayou, who grew up on the Meskwaki Settlement. “When I was growing up, all of us, we had to help with the gardens,” he recalls. “Most of the families had their own gardens.”

As Mr. Kapayou got older, however, he noticed that fewer people were gardening. And those still doing it were planting fewer old varieties – mainly just corn, the most prized of Native foods. He resolved to keep growing traditional beans and squash, and he began to seek out other varieties both on and off the settlement. He consulted old ethnographies. He even tried – unsuccessfully – to track down seeds at a New York museum.

“Most of the seeds that me and my family are growing in our garden are what my parents and great-grandparents were growing,” he says. “They’ve been growing for a thousand years. I don’t know, I think I believe these seeds are sacred. They’re very special. It makes me want to keep growing them, and I want to make sure our kids keep growing them.”
Plenty of challenges

Despite its successes, the food sovereignty movement still faces plenty of challenges. Growing old crop varieties can be labor-intensive: If done in the traditional way, they are planted and harvested by hand, with the three main crops – corn, beans, and squash – planted together. Also, growers need to take care that nearby field crops, especially corn, don’t cross-pollinate with traditional varieties. And it takes time to preserve the foods – usually by drying – and to cook them up in traditional dishes, such as corn soup, which Mr. Kapayou prepares outside in an old kettle over a wood fire. In addition, efforts to take advantage of Native treaty rights for hunting and fishing continue to meet resistance – as when a group of non-Native people harassed Mr. Johnson while he speared walleyes at a Wisconsin lake last April.

Nor is it easy to get people to renounce modern processed foods. Nicky Buck knows this well. A member of the Prairie Island Indian Community in Minnesota, she grew up behind a McDonald’s and ate sugar sandwiches as a child – and developed kidney disease as an adult. Today she eats – and promotes – Native foods in her community.

“You just have to retrain your palate,” she says. “You have to decolonize your palate.”

Decolonizing the palates of the young poses a special challenge. Parents make sloppy Joes out of bison meat and substitute flint corn for wheat pasta. Ms. Webster, the mother of two teenage daughters, says, “We’re trying to show that corn is cool enough even though there’s a frozen pizza looking at them.”

The gardening itself may occasion a complaint from younger ones, but it’s good family time. Indeed, the food sovereignty movement is often about bringing people together – growing, harvesting, trading seeds and food, and, of course, eating. A Native foods cooperative on the Oneida reservation has 15 member families and saw more applications to join last year than ever before. “There are a lot of folks showing interest,” says Lea Zeise, who manages the co-op.
A year-round effort

Food sovereignty is a year-round effort. Over the winter, gardeners have been cooking up what they harvested and preserved in the fall – the dried beans, the canned venison, the corn boiled and dried and stored in glass jars. In northern Wisconsin, members of the Lac du Flambeau Band were busy with winter spearing, chopping holes through 28 inches of ice to get to the fish.

“We’re going to get as many muskies as we can,” says Mr. Johnson. “We have a lot of younger people who want to do this.”

Others are looking forward to spring – planning their gardens, shelling dried corn for seed, and in some cases looking beyond the pandemic to a resumption of the workshops and conferences that have helped spread the food sovereignty movement. “People can’t wait to get together,” says Mr. Cornelius.

In the meantime, Mr. Cornelius, like other food sovereignty advocates, is heavily booked on Zoom. He’s also full of plans for his own farming. In midwinter he was thinking he should plant his greenhouse soon. He was also trying to figure out how to tap more trees in early spring, including a stand of silver maples on land he just bought last year – 51 acres, mostly woods, plus the derelict buildings of an old dairy farm. He hopes to bring in cattle. His friends say he should raise bison. Maybe someday, he tells them.

“One step at a time,” he says.

▻https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2021/0222/Seeds-and-beyond-Native-Americans-embrace-food-sovereignty

#semences #graines

#Intertribal_Agriculture_Council

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The Intertribal Agriculture Council was founded in 1987 to pursue and promote the conservation, development and use of our agricultural resources for the betterment of our people.

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#tensions_raciales #peuples_autochtones #conflits #Keno #Tulelake #Dairy #USA #Etats-Unis #changement_climatique #saumon #droits #poissons #droits #agriculture #eau

contrairement à ce qu’indique l’article, il ne s’agit pas de plomb toxique (уулуу коргошун) mais d’aconit (уу коргошун)

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soit, en français
Aconitum — Wikipédia
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Aconitum, les Aconits en français, du grec ancien ἀκόνιτον, est un genre de plantes herbacées de la famille des Ranunculaceae. Ce sont, pour un certain nombre, des espèces montagnardes. Leurs fleurs semblent coiffées d’un casque. Elles contiennent des alcaloïdes toxiques, dont l’aconitine, poison mortel pour les humains et pour de nombreux animaux.

La flore médicinale, thérapeutique ou toxique ?
▻https://www.racine.be/sites/default/files/books/issuu/9782390250661.pdf

Aconitum napellus L.
L’ACONIT NAPEL, « CASQUE DE JUPITER »

L’aconit napel est la plante la plus toxique de notre flore.
La cueillette doit se faire avec des gants pour éviter que ses alcaloïdes toxiques ne pénètrent par la peau. Il vaut mieux l’admirer de loin !
[…]
Propriétés médicinales
La partie botanique de la plante qui est utilisée est la racine. Elle est riche en glucides (50-60 %, surtout de l’amidon), ainsi qu’en alcaloïdes diterpéniques (0,5 à 1,5 %). L’alcaloïde principal est l’aconitine. Cet alca- loïde, ainsi que les molécules apparentées, sont extrêmement toxiques ; la racine d’aconit n’est utilisée en Europe que dans des préparations homéopathiques. La saveur de la plante, douce puis âcre, s’accompagne d’une sensation de fourmillement et d’engourdissement de la langue. La dose mortelle d’aconitine chez l’homme adulte serait de 3 mg (ce qui correspond à 2 à 4 g de racines fraîches).
Comment cette aconitine agit-elle au sein de notre corps ? Elle excite puis paralyse aussi bien les termi- naisons nerveuses périphériques que les centres bulbaires. Elle induit un ralentissement respiratoire et une dissociation auriculo-ventriculaire ou parfois même la mort en provoquant des troubles du rythme cardiaque.
Ce type d’alcaloïdes diterpéniques se retrouve principalement dans diverses Renonculacées (genres Aco- nitum, Consolida, Delphinium).

La médecine chinoise fait souvent appel à des aconits orientaux auxquels elle attribue notamment des pro- priétés antirhumatismales et sédatives pour les douleurs d’origine névralgique. Ces espèces contiennent également des alcaloïdes diterpéniques mais une préparation préalable, pratique commune aux médecines orientales et indiennes permet de réduire la toxicité des composés toxiques initialement contenus dans la plante en modifiant leur structure chimique de base (hydrolyse partielle). Par exemple, en Inde, les racines d’aconit sont traditionnellement macérées dans de l’urine de vache renouvelée quotidiennement pendant trois jours. Ce traitement réduit de 60 % la toxicité des alcaloïdes.

Le saviez-vous ?
La toxicité de l’aconit napel (et d’autres espèces du même genre) est connue depuis l’Antiquité ; d’illustres auteurs comme Théophraste, Ovide ou Pline l’Ancien mentionnent l’utilisation de cette plante comme poison. Les extraits d’aconit auraient été utilisés par les Germains et les Gaulois pour imbiber les pointes de flèches et de lances. Ces extraits étaient aussi mélangés aux appâts destinés à tuer les loups, ce qui explique le surnom de « tue-loup » donné aux aconits dans le langage populaire.

Aconitum napellus - Doctissimo
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Aconitum napellus est préparée à partir de l’aconit napel ou casque de moine, ou encore Casque-de-Jupiter, une grande plante herbacée des montagnes pyrénéennes. Aconitum napellus est présentée en granules, comprimés, solution buvable en gouttes et ampoules, poudre orale et pommade. Aconitum napellus est principalement utilisée en homéopathie pour son action en gynécologie (aménorrhées), sur les troubles du comportement (insomnie, anxiété, peur de mourir), sur les insolations, en cardiologie (tachycardies), en neurologie (névralgies) et en infectiologie (hyperthermies).

« La face positive des énergies vertes »

Le documentaire « La face cachée des énergies vertes » est passé fin novembre sur Arte. Truffé d’erreurs et d’arguments partisans, allant jusqu’à comparer le problème des pales d’éoliennes, soit disant non recyclables, à celui posé par les déchets nucléaires !

Autre exemple : ce documentaire assène que les énergies vertes et que les batteries nécessitent obligatoirement l’utilisation de terres rares. Ce n’est pourtant pas du tout l’avis de l’Ademe. D’autre part, le photovoltaïque n’utilise jamais de terres rares. Et pour l’éolien et les voitures électriques, leur utilisation dans les moteurs à aimants permanents permet de gagner en performances, mais cet usage n’est ni systématique, ni indispensable.

Cet article présente :

– La quinzaine d’erreurs grossières parmi les très nombreuses qui émaillent ce documentaire.
– Le cercle vertueux du photovoltaïque et de l’éolien : plus on en installe, plus on réduit les émissions de gaz carbonique.
– Que nos voitures contiennent davantage de terres rares que les voitures électriques sans moteurs à aimants permanents.
– Pour qui roule le journaliste Guillaume Pitron, à l’origine de ce documentaire.

En se fondant sur les avis qui se colportent, principalement sur la production des terres rares utilisées dans les énergies vertes, Guillaume Pitron, qui a enquêté dans une douzaine de pays, nous fait visiter quelques sites d’exploitation qui portent atteinte à l’environnement et à la santé des travailleurs.

Hélas ce documentaire est gâché autant par sa partialité, que par de très nombreuses erreurs grossières.

►https://www.passerelleco.info/article.php?id_article=2390
►https://seenthis.net/messages/894307

Geologic and anthropogenic sources of contamination in settled dust of a historic mining port city in northern Chile: health risk implications

Chile is the leading producer of copper worldwide and its richest mineral deposits are found in the Antofagasta Region of northern Chile. Mining activities have significantly increased income and employment in the region; however, there has been little assessment of the resulting environmental impacts to residents. The port of Antofagasta, located 1,430 km north of Santiago, the capital of Chile, functioned as mineral stockpile until 1998 and has served as a copper concentrate stockpile since 2014. Samples were collected in 2014 and 2016 that show elevated concentrations of As, Cu, Pb, and Zn in street dust and in residents’ blood (Pb) and urine (As) samples. To interpret and analyze the spatial variability and likely sources of contamination, existent data of basement rocks and soil geochemistry in the city as well as public-domain airborne dust were studied. Additionally, a bioaccessibility assay of airborne dust was conducted and the chemical daily intake and hazard index were calculated to provide a preliminary health risk assessment in the vicinity of the port. The main conclusions indicate that the concentrations of Ba, Co, Cr, Mn, Ni, and V recorded from Antofagasta dust likely originate from intrusive, volcanic, metamorphic rocks, dikes, or soil within the city. However, the elevated concentrations of As, Cd, Cu, Mo, Pb, and Zn do not originate from these geologic outcrops, and are thus considered anthropogenic contaminants. The average concentrations of As, Cu, and Zn are possibly the highest in recorded street dust worldwide at 239, 10,821, and 11,869 mg kg−1, respectively. Furthermore, the contaminants As, Pb, and Cu exhibit the highest bioaccessibilities and preliminary health risk indices show that As and Cu contribute to elevated health risks in exposed children and adults chronically exposed to dust in Antofagasta, whereas Pb is considered harmful at any concentration. Therefore, an increased environmental awareness and greater protective measures are necessary in Antofagasta and possibly other similar mining port cities in developing countries.

▻https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5922233

#santé #mines

L’association #Vernunftkraft

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Aufgeklärte und deshalb zu Recht besorgte Bürger dieses Landes (▻https://www.vernunftkraft.de/bundesinitiative) erkennen hinsichtlich der Rationalität energiepolitischer Entscheidungen nicht hinnehmbare Defizite.

Die Zerstörung von Wäldern zwecks Ansiedlung von volkswirtschaftlich sinnlosen Windindustrieanlagen ist dabei die Spitze des Eisbergs.

Zentrale Elemente der gegenwärtigen Energiepolitik sind extrem unvernünftig.

Daher möchten wir der Vernunft Kraft geben.
▻https://www.vernunftkraft.de

La guerre des métaux rares. La face cachée de la transition énergétique et numérique

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En nous émancipant des énergies fossiles, nous sombrons en réalité dans une nouvelle dépendance : celle aux métaux rares. Graphite, cobalt, indium, platinoïdes, tungstène, terres rares… ces ressources sont devenues indispensables à notre nouvelle société écologique (voitures électriques, éoliennes, panneaux solaires) et numérique (elles se nichent dans nos smartphones, nos ordinateurs, tablettes et autre objets connectés de notre quotidien). Or les coûts environnementaux, économiques et géopolitiques de cette dépendance pourraient se révéler encore plus dramatiques que ceux qui nous lient au pétrole.

Dès lors, c’est une contre-histoire de la transition énergétique que ce livre raconte – le récit clandestin d’une odyssée technologique qui a tant promis, et les coulisses d’une quête généreuse, ambitieuse, qui a jusqu’à maintenant charrié des périls aussi colossaux que ceux qu’elle s’était donné pour mission de résoudre.

▻http://www.editionslesliensquiliberent.fr/livre-La_guerre_des_m%C3%A9taux_rares-9791020905741-1-1-

#livre #Guillaume_Pitron

Rapport ADEME 2012 :

Énergie et patrimoine communal : enquête 2012

L’enquête « Énergie et patrimoine communal » est menée tous les cinq ans depuis 1990. Elle porte sur les consommations d’énergie et les dépenses payées directement par les communes sur trois cibles principales : le patrimoine bâti, l’éclairage public et les carburants des véhicules.

▻https://www.ademe.fr/energie-patrimoine-communal-enquete-2012

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Rapport ADEME 2015 :

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Quel mix énergétique pour les années 2030-2050 ? L’ADEME actualise son scénario Énergie Climat et propose des mesures pour contribuer à la déclinaison du plan CLIMAT.

Les objectifs ambitieux du Plan Climat lancé par Nicolas Hulot, ministre de la Transition écologique et solidaire, confirment la stratégie volontariste de la France pour la transition énergétique. Dans le contexte actuel de mise à jour de la Stratégie nationale bas carbone (SNBC) et de la Programmation pluriannuelle de l’énergie (PPE), l’actualisation du scénario énergie-climat de l’ADEME vient contribuer aux réflexions pour mettre en oeuvre ces objectifs.

Cette contribution est double : d’une part, l’actualisation des « Visions énergétiques » de l’ADEME, qui souligne l’enjeu que représente l’atteinte des objectifs ambitieux inscrits dans la loi, et d’autre part, l’étude « Propositions de mesures de politiques publiques pour un scénario bas carbone », qui propose une liste de mesures concrètes à mettre en oeuvre.

▻https://www.ademe.fr/recherche-innovation/construire-visions-prospectives/scenarios-2030-2050-vision-energetique-volontariste

En #Géorgie, la révolte de la “capitale du #manganèse” contre une exploitation hors de contrôle

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Le développement de technologies comme les voitures électriques a fait grimper la demande de manganèse. À #Tchiatoura, où cette ressource est abondante, on en paie les conséquences : excavations à tout-va, paysage saccagé, maisons qui s’effondrent, et main-d’œuvre mal payée.

La grogne sociale monte depuis 2019 dans le district de Tchiatoura, ancienne “capitale” soviétique de la production de manganèse. Depuis trois mois, 3 500 mineurs sont en #grève pour réclamer la hausse de leurs salaires (qui ne dépassent pas 250 euros) et une meilleure assurance maladie. À la mi-mai, quelques mineurs du village de #Choukrouti, près de Tchiatoura, se sont cousus la bouche et ont entamé une #grève_de_la_faim, rapporte le site géorgien Ambebi.

Face au silence des autorités locales et nationales, depuis le 31 mai, dix familles font un sit-in devant l’ambassade des États-Unis (la puissance occidentale la plus influente en Géorgie), à Tbilissi, la capitale. “Les gens réclament des compensations pour leur maison et demandent l’aide des diplomates étrangers”, pour rappeler à l’ordre la compagnie privée #Georgian_Manganese, filiale géorgienne de la société britannique #Stemcor, explique le site Ekho Kavkaza.

Les habitants protestent contre les dégâts écologiques, économiques et culturels causés par une extraction intensive à ciel ouvert du manganèse. Utilisé dans la fabrication de l’acier, la demande pour ce métal est en forte croissance, notamment pour les besoins de l’industrie des véhicules électriques, des piles, des batteries et circuits électroniques.

#paywall

►https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/degats-en-georgie-la-revolte-de-la-capitale-du-manganese-cont

En #Géorgie, la révolte de la “capitale du #manganèse” contre une exploitation hors de contrôle

https://www.courrierinternational.com/sites/ci_master/files/styles/image_original_765/public/assets/images/rtr3fook.jpg?itok=wd-fjlvC#.jpg

Le développement de technologies comme les voitures électriques a fait grimper la demande de manganèse. À #Tchiatoura, où cette ressource est abondante, on en paie les conséquences : excavations à tout-va, paysage saccagé, maisons qui s’effondrent, et main-d’œuvre mal payée.

La grogne sociale monte depuis 2019 dans le district de Tchiatoura, ancienne “capitale” soviétique de la production de manganèse. Depuis trois mois, 3 500 mineurs sont en #grève pour réclamer la hausse de leurs salaires (qui ne dépassent pas 250 euros) et une meilleure assurance maladie. À la mi-mai, quelques mineurs du village de #Choukrouti, près de Tchiatoura, se sont cousus la bouche et ont entamé une #grève_de_la_faim, rapporte le site géorgien Ambebi.

Face au silence des autorités locales et nationales, depuis le 31 mai, dix familles font un sit-in devant l’ambassade des États-Unis (la puissance occidentale la plus influente en Géorgie), à Tbilissi, la capitale. “Les gens réclament des compensations pour leur maison et demandent l’aide des diplomates étrangers”, pour rappeler à l’ordre la compagnie privée #Georgian_Manganese, filiale géorgienne de la société britannique #Stemcor, explique le site Ekho Kavkaza.

Les habitants protestent contre les dégâts écologiques, économiques et culturels causés par une extraction intensive à ciel ouvert du manganèse. Utilisé dans la fabrication de l’acier, la demande pour ce métal est en forte croissance, notamment pour les besoins de l’industrie des véhicules électriques, des piles, des batteries et circuits électroniques.

#paywall

►https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/degats-en-georgie-la-revolte-de-la-capitale-du-manganese-cont