Fitzgibbon today From LaPresse
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The "battery industry" foamed in Prime Minister Franois Legault's inaugural speech on Tuesday is a business of at least $ 2 billion to $ 3 billion.
Economy Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon confirmed on Wednesday that public funds will need to be invested to support private investors.
On Tuesday, Mr. Legault announced in the House that he wanted to create a "world pole for the entire battery industry" in Quebec: that means setting up an industry that goes from the extraction of minerals to the assembly of batteries, which will be used for all ranges of electric vehicles.
In Wednesday's scrum, Mr. Fitzgibbon hinted that for lithium, investment would amount to $ 1.5 billion; in the field of graphite, they would be about 1 billion or a little less; and finally there is nickel.
In total, those are probably projects of $ 2 billion or $ 3 billion, depending on what he summed up.