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MollySue has not left this chair since she got back from the Haunted Cemetery. I have no clue what happened to her there.
© Reuters. A view of the BHP Billiton's Escondida, the world's biggest copper mine, in northern Chile, in Antofagasta, Chile March 31, 2008. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado/File Photo
BRISBANE (Reuters) - Regulators urgently need to fast track approvals for new mines and the renewable energy projects to power them to ensure the supply of minerals essential to averting climate change, gold miner Newcrest's interim head said on Thursday. "We are urgently off course and we need to course correct immediately," Sherry Duhe, interim CEO of Australia's top gold miner and a former oil industry executive, told a mining conference in Brisbane. The mining industry needs to bring online the equivalent of 17 more Escondidas, the world's biggest mine, by 2050, to meet demand projections, she said as an example of the scale of the problem. Other metals, such as nickel, cobalt and lithium, used in batteries and wind turbines, are also urgently needed for the energy transition. Miners need to step up development by an order of magnitude and governments need to slash regulatory timelines and beef up regulatory staffing, as regulation is becoming more complex, including duplicated rules, Duhe said. "The next five to 10 years are critical," she said. "The alternative is terrifying." Newcrest is relying on a wind farm to supply 40% of its electricity needs for its Cadia gold mine in New South Wales state, but that power project development is struggling with regulatory time frames.
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The entrance for Professor Cline's Haunted Monster Museum and Dinosaur Kingdom. That green guy seems like me may have had enough to drink.
Then again, he's missing a torso, so inebriation may be the least of his worries.