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The European Green Deal, with the damaging and illogical idea of 'green growth' at its heart, is helping drive this endless extraction to satisfy Europe's overconsumption of energy and materials (Photo: Irina Gorbasyova)

EU's 'green mining' concept? - there's no such thing

This month, 14 grassroots movements and citizens associations gathered to demonstrate outside the Portuguese presidency's event on 'Green Mining'.

They oppose new mining projects in Portugal and denounce the narrative of 'sustainable' extractivism. Many came from the Covas do Barroso community in northern Portugal where conflict is rife over a planned lithium mine. Lithium is one of the

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The European Green Deal, with the damaging and illogical idea of 'green growth' at its heart, is helping drive this endless extraction to satisfy Europe's overconsumption of energy and materials (Photo: Irina Gorbasyova)

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Meadhbh Bolger is a resource justice campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe.

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