Spotlight's Cobalt Claim: Fact or Fiction?

0:00Channel 7 Spotlight program dropped a bombshell report slamming Australia's push for renewable energy and big batteries, painting it as a dirty. Deal that Rex Rainforest and relies on brutal cobalm mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They showed grim footage from an artisanal mine on Coewezi, where workers dig by hand in awful conditions, claiming almost 80 percent of the. World's cobalm comes from spots like that and powers every battery from electric cars to our grid storage. But experts point out major gaps like how artisanal sites produce only around 30 percent of cobalt mixed with cleaner industrial sources and battery makers are ditching cobalt because it's toxic, pricey and ethically dicey. The show link Congo's so-called blood cobalt straight to South Australia's Hornstale battery, but Amnesty International says they never made that. Connection and don't even use that term, while blaming China ignores poverty driving those mines long before they got involved. Meanwhile, their Tarkini Rainforest segment hyped the Chinese firm's old mine and scrapped

1:04dam plans inside the wilderness, skipping how the company. Just proposed the site outside it, with no pushback from greens, all without a single industry voice for balance before fading out on the energy. Ministers tense defense, local news, powered by AI. This is Sinny News Today, I'm Corey with The Story.