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'Great news': EU hails discovery of massive phosphate rock deposit in Norway
(www.euractiv.com)
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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Despite this vast resource, prices will remain the same?
Norway has strict labour and environmental laws. If anything, it will continue to rise as demand increases steadily. And that's probably for the best. Some countries are doing some heavy reasearch in recycling phosphate and lithium components. That means less waste and more indepedence. A drop in price could eliminate these environmental friendly plans.
I hope so. There's enough phosphate being dumped on fields and washed into waterways already.
That will not stop for the foreseeable future, as it would require a common understanding among all EU countries to reform the farming subsidy system. We currently see in the Netherlands and northern Germany, that they rather poison the water supply with nitrate and pay large fines to the EU than reducing the use of mineral fertilizers.
Ironically the abhorrent use of fertilizers destroys the soil, so eventually they are stuck with using the fertilizers or let the fields recover for years. It's like a severe alcohol addiction and no politician has the balls to put agriculture into rehab.