BMAC excerpts mid 2021 - 2022: *There needs to be 3 innovate battery ecosystem hubs in Canada. One should be in the West so it can connect Alberta and BC into a future Canada-to-Fremont battery and vehicle corridor.
The goal of this project is to clearly document a roadmap that will identify the factors for establishing this area as a battery hub for Western Canada.
These will include, but not limited to, raw materials, R&D, battery storage manufacturing, battery refurbishment and battery recycling.
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BMAC excerpts 2022 report.
* Critical Battery Minerals Research Network for DLE support.
From E3's March 7th, 2023:
"....today announced it has been awarded $3.545M CAD in funding from Natural Resources Canada's Critical Minerals Research Development and Demonstration (CMRDD b BH by bb b bbERb) program."
BMAC excerpts continues:
"Canada should establish a research hub for brines in Alberta and a spodumene hub in Qubec."
From POSCO arrival to AB:
"With the demand for lithium growing alongside the demand for electric vehicles, POSCO Holdings can lead the way in exploring oil-field brine lithium with the support of Alberta’s existing industry, talent pool, and post-secondary institutions that are actively pursuing solutions to some of the challenges associated with extracting brine-hosted lithium."
"There are others, both in Japan and in Korea, that are on a similar path [to Posco] and we anticipate this being the first announcement of many," Christiaanse said.
BMAC also mentions needing to build a Canadian national materials flow, through POSCO & BASF.
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