This Wednesday, the prime minister defended that Portugal and Spain should team up and work together to explore for lithium, saying it is an important cross-border resource for electric mobility.
“Portugal and Spain have an excellent opportunity for cross-border cooperation because the two countries together hold the largest reserves of a fundamental natural resource for electromobility in the coming years: lithium,” António Costa concluded the speech. before the La Toja Forum, which took place at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.
António Costa noted that the largest reserves of lithium exist on both sides of the Portuguese-Spanish border.
“We must not only compete to have everyone have their own battery plant and everyone their own refinery, we must be able to jointly develop a strategy to jointly evaluate a resource that, being the largest European reserve, is still insufficient and will always imply importing more lithium to establish a sustainable battery plant,” the chief executive said.
“We have all the advantages to work together,” the prime minister emphasized in his speech, in which he also defended the accelerating energy interconnections between the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Europe, as well as the current Iberian mechanism to turn off evolution. gas electricity prices.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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