Rio Tinto has approved construction of a new 25 MW solar plant at its Kennecott copper operation in Utah, bringing the mine’s total solar capacity to 30 MW.
The new solar plant will be located next to Kennecott’s existing 5 MW solar plant, completed last year. Together, the two solar plants will reduce Kennecott’s Scope 2 emissions by approximately 6% annually.
Construction of the solar plant is expected to be completed next year. Bechtel Corporation will design and manage construction of the plant.
“Expanding our solar farm is the latest step in our journey to reduce our carbon footprint,” says Nate Foster, Rio Tinto Kennecott’s managing director.
“Together with other measures we’ve taken, such as closing a coal-fired power plant, deploying battery electric vehicles underground and our recent transition to renewable diesel, we have reduced our emissions by millions of tons over the past few years. We’re demonstrating every day that sustainable practices and resource production can go hand-in-hand to benefit our company as well as our community.”
The 210-acre solar array will include 71,000 panels, which contain tellurium produced by Kennecott, a byproduct of mining and refining copper.
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Social democracies are nations in which the tax base provides everyone with healthcare and education, and where the richest and most powerful people are not free to ruin the environment.
I run into someone from one of these counties a couple of times a month, and I like to ask why their people are consistently at the top of the World Happiness Rankings. The normal response is always some variant of the following:
It’s hard to be happy living in a society that is indifferent to the suffering of others. It’s part of the very nature of human beings to care about one another.
Something else I notice about these places is that very few people are religious. Sweden, e.g., is about 80% atheist.
That means no childish tribalism, no ridiculous dogmas, no worries about eternal damnation, etc.
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For my money, one of the saddest elements to the American zeitgeist is its glorification of ignorance.
Up until recently, if you wanted to know what science believes about anthropology, climate change, or particle physics, you asked a scientist in the relevant discipline, who not only has a college degree, but normally a ton of education on top of that.
Now, you ask a congressional Republican, preferably, an evangelical Christian.
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