Dirty Facts About China’s ‘Clean Energy’ with Diana Furchtgott-Roth

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🗓️ 30 August 2024

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China's production of batteries for electric vehicles is “definitely not clean,” says energy expert Diana Furchtgott-Roth. Without its own vast natural energy resources, China is the world’s largest energy importer, but has seized on the economic opportunities of the “green energy” movement. Yet the production of products such as EVs is causing harm to the environment, says Furchtgott-Roth, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment. China produces about 80% of the world’s EV batteries and “mining for the critical minerals in the batteries … causes vast amounts of environmental damage,” she explains. Production of one EV battery involves moving “hundreds of thousands of pounds of earth to get the critical minerals for one battery,” Furchtgott-Roth notes, adding that “China is buying mines in Africa so that it can get the critical minerals, [as well as] mines in Latin America.” Furchtgott-Roth is the co-author of “How the Forced Energy Transition and Reliance on China Will Harm America,” a new Heritage Foundation report exposing the ways in which the “green energy” movement is harming America while benefiting China. She joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to explain it all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's definitely not clean energy unless it were part only with wind and solar or nuclear power.
0:09.0	Right now mining for the critical minerals in the batteries causes vast amounts of
0:16.5	environmental damage.
0:20.3	Welcome to the Daily Single Podcast for Friday, August 30th. I'm Virginia
0:27.8	Alan and that was Heritage Foundation director of the Center for Energy, Climate
0:32.2	and Environment, Diana Fertracht Roth.
0:35.3	The U.S. is bolstering the Chinese economy.
0:38.4	How?
0:39.4	Well, EV batteries and solar panels are the answer.
0:43.0	Because China is the largest producer of solar and EVs, the clean energy agenda is directly benefiting China, even though, according to Diana, that production of these so-called
0:55.4	clean energy materials is neither clean nor environmentally friendly.
1:00.8	Diana and Miles Pollard are the authors of a new report
1:04.2	how the forced energy transition and reliance on China
1:07.7	will harm America.
1:09.6	And she joins us on the show today
1:11.2	to explain exactly how this forced energy transition from natural energy
1:16.8	resources to things like solar are in fact and will continue to harm America if there is not a course correction.
1:25.0	But before we get to my conversation with Diana, I want to tell you all about another
1:29.4	Daily Signal Podcast.
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