UK is building Europe's first lithium refinery that could power up to a million electric cars

It's sort of neat that the north east of the UK might get some source of jobs back, and this is definitely the right time to invest in green technologies if you don't want to, you know, die from the climate crisis.

Having said that with labour and the conservatives backing away from green pledges and the UK not having any mines of its own, and it having comparatively low car production compared to Europe along with Brexit making it hard to export to Europes big car producing countries, it's hard to see how this will be a commercial success.

I wish Green Lithium luck with this, but I struggle to see why the UK is the place to build this.

The focus on the UK and not the company in this is suspicious. The UK is building? No it's not, a company called Green Lithium is building it. Reads to me like a press briefing from the conservatives to generate a bit of positive press after rishi promising to increase fossil fuel extraction, and the protests at his house. A story like this let's them play the "business will do the right thing, look here is evidence, no more regulations needed here" card, and offer an alternative to labour on how to approach the climate crisis