“A Mine in Portuguese Nature” for de Volkskrant, March 2023
"A Lithium Mine in Portuguese Nature" - our story about a proposed Lithium mine in Covas do Barroso, Portugal for de Volkskrant
"The European Commission has presented an ambitious raw materials law . Europe wants to produce more earth metals itself, which are crucial for the energy transition. In an isolated village in northern Portugal, you can see how much that can hurt: a huge lithium mine must be built here.
This pastoral idyll is in danger of being disrupted, says shepherd Paulo Pires (48). He points to a hill in the distance where the British mining company Savannah wants to open a 500 hectare lithium mine. The cries of the cuckoo will be drowned out by the sound of trucks, the beautiful landscape will be mutilated by ruthless excavators that will turn the green hills into a bare five square kilometer open mine" writes journalist Peter Giesen.
You can read the story here