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State Labor promises $5,000 home battery rebate to slash bills, soak up rooftop solar - One Step Off The Grid
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What a policy winner!
I love the Manufacturing program part especially. I think it could be a great sustainable manufacturing industry for the Bunbury area.
A full production line from raw lithium, to ready to install batteries sent out of Bunbury port could be such a value add industry for the Southwest.
Issue being that lithium is underneath the state forrest and jarrah trees need it to grow. I'd rather trees. Not saying we don't need lithium just be smart where we get it from.
Whilst trace lithium is important for many biological functions, it seems unlikely to me that a particular tree would require significant quantities of lithium to thrive.
Having a quick google it seems the issue is a particular forest that exists in a place that companies wished to prospect for lithium. I couldn't find any evidence of a high lithium dependence for Jarrah trees.
I would be very surprised if it's not possible for us to mine lithium deposits and also have healthy forests. Though typically companies just care less about flattening acers to get to the money making rocks.
Interesting. It seems to be scrubbed. They seem to be more worried about water supplies as a reason. But the reason that rehabilitation isn't possible is that the two things these forrests need are bauxite and lithium.