Australia’s richest person has warned that net-zero will “crumble to unachievable” without a strong and healthy mining industry.
Gina Rinehart, who holds a $34 billion mining-based fortune and has topped the Australian Financial Review Rich List for three consecutive years, said electricity touches “pretty well everything we daily need”, and mining will be essential for making solar panels and electric vehicles and creating wind power.
The billionaire cited a finding from the International Energy Agency that “a typical electric car requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional car, and an onshore wind plant requires nine times more mineral resources than a gas-fired plant of the same capacity.”…