RE:Financial post with Wilkinson on getting things done fasterThanks for that idle. Very important statements !
Wilkinson said his team has “eyes on a number of specific projects” for each mineral that will allow Canada to be “fully sufficient to feed” the battery plants and supply allies.
“You will see a more detailed action plan on exactly what we intend to do with respect to regulatory and permitting processes within the next few months,” he said. “At the end of the day, countries that produce minerals with high ESG (environmental, social and governance) standards need to have counterparts that are consuming and buying critical minerals with high ESG standards,” he said. “We need to figure out the mechanism through which that is going to happen. That’s an active conversation.”
Every commodity has a price cycle, but Wilkinson said he is not trying to “eliminate” that. He is more concerned about the “market manipulation” that can happen when supply is concentrated in the hands of a few countries. In 2022, Indonesia was responsible for nearly half the world’s nickel production.