Why the energy transition won’t be green until mine waste disasters are prevented

By Eva Marquis, Research Fellow in Critical Minerals and Circular Economy, University of Exeter
Karen Hudson-Edwards, Professor in Sustainable Mining, University of Exeter

On February 18, contamination in the Kafue river, Zambia, led to a mass death of fish. Its water turned a deathly grey and adjacent farmland was poisoned. The drinking water it supplied to half a million residents of the town of Kitwe was suddenly cut off.

Reports suggest that this catastrophe was caused by the failure of the Chambishi tailings…

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