Sky News Australia 
While coal mining communities in eastern Queensland and New South Wales could be worse-off under a shift to net zero – experts say central Australia would enjoy a critical minerals mining boom.
A key Australian mining company, which has inked a rare earths deal with the Pentagon, says the United States is pushing hard to move manufacturing and mining away from China.
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Americans have only one goal, that is to maintain their own hegemony! And our goal only needs to destroy the U. S. stock market! Because everything in the United States depends on the stock market!
I won't be surprised if there is some talk about re-purposing some of the underground mines…
Interesting… rare earth minerals apparently needed for clean and green…… largest rare earth mineral provider? China.
"Rare earths critical to net zero technology"
Does sky understand what they're reporting here? You need to use massive diggers to mine the materials, digging down depths that measures as tall as skyscrapers?
Tone deaf?
You can bet your sheep station on Labor selling out to the Chinese if they win the next election.
They will encourage, subsidise or do whatever is needed to allow the chinese to strengthen their hold over rare earth metal supplies and Australia as well as the rest of the free world will be worse off for it.
Once again Australia's raw resources exploited off shore!!
You can strip mine the whole world inside out and won't find enough to compensate for the damage done by mining.
Rate earths, uranium, necessary for a Net Zero outcome. Both will ensure a mining industry, employment secured. Coal, apparently, not wanted, no doubt, China is running down iron ore dependency on Australia. With a mining (& meat industry) loss, Australia has bugger all!
Yep this look as green as the sewage the UK government are pumping into the sea recently.
#Translation: Massive hypocrisy will be mandatory for net zero. Saving the Earth by destroying it. Of course useful idiots are all for it.
Load that coal into a spaceship rocket frigate and leave it on a space station then transport that fuel somewhere were we need that energy like a planet far away. About five light years away.
When there's clean coal technologies and infighters don't use or accept it, then we leave it behind until the fights over. Just like to many cars and people and welfare and cancer and toxins and criminals. Eventually it'll be the black plague or the bubonic plague or world war or civil war and then there will be trees again and food again and water again and forests again and fish again and fresh air and rain and snow and nice days were you can walk in the sunlight without getting sunburned or black lungs from carbon toxic waste of cars.
The notion that rare earth minerals could replace the economic role of coal in Australia is pure fantasy and just more 'climate change' extremist BS. Are they planning to construct rare earth mines at Lithgow, another at Muswellbrook to keep these whole towns viable?
Hardly renewable.
Takes a lot of Diesel fuel an coal too
mine all rare earth minerals…think about it ?
Can you tell me what will happen to all this green energy after their lifespan? They cannot be recycled, they will be thrown into landfill or RIP, rust in place. Green is a lie, it is as black as death.
What you really mean isn't rare earth but uranium
How r u still on AIR SEF A NOVICK U DICK YEAH U REPORTED LIFE D HEAD
Why not build cleaner coal burning plants, This is just a fake thing so alternative fuel companies can sell their products. and supply us with their power etc
The fact is that one day we're going to either run out of resources, or poison our environment so badly that we won't be able to live here anymore, but either way, we will have to stop.
Unfortunately, the actual problem is net zero itself.
Net Zero? How sad!!
Experts that aren't brainwashed with insidious climatology activism estimate that from 15% to 25% of current foodstuff production worldwide is due to the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide in the past 50 years!
Also, trees grow from 30% to 70% faster depending on variety!
The climate change activists deny any benefit from increases in CO2 and they never, ever mention the fact that carbon dioxide is only 1% of the five combined greenhouse gasses and it isn't even the most effective one–water is! When they start proposing taxation of water to mitigate climate change, you can start to worry! Otherwise, grow on with confidence because carbon dioxide does NOT control the climate but those that push carbon taxes do it so they can control you!
Seems oxymoron doesn’t it. Tearing up the land for batteries, for wind turbines that kill, and solar panels that are toxic…and end up in land fills.
Elizabeth Hill!