Colchester Council urged to boycott electric vehicle industry by local resident campaigners

Colchester Council urged to boycott electric vehicle industry by local resident campaigners.

Article Link
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/23404950.colchester-council-urged-boycott-electric-vehicle-industry/
The council previously unveiled a strategy to move to an entirely carbon neutral fleet by 2030 and last year launched a battery-powered car hire scheme.
Residents raised concerns over the environmental impact the production of the batteries used in electric vehicles has.
JCB’s zero-emission hydrogen engines was mentioned as an alternative.
Ben Plummer, climate emergency officer for Colchester Council, said: “We are aware the environmental impact of producing lithium batteries.

Hey all right everybody now in front of me here I have got a interesting story well vaguely interesting I’d say um I thought it was interesting it’s not that interesting it’s vaguely interesting so don’t get too excited okay um now I was watching somebody’s well I say I say watching it popped up

On my YouTube feed um uh of not Jeff’s uh Channel and I looked at it briefly and it it was nothing to do with him what I’m going to talk about it was to do with the person he had on there now the reason why I’m talking about it is because what I’ve

Got in front of me here is Colechester Council uh urged to boycott electric vehicle industry and now this is I’m reading this from The Gazette standard okay so that must be like a local paper up there somewhere I’m not too sure um but it’s a little I thought oh that’s a

A little bit jarring isn’t it um the council have been urged to boycott everything about electric vehicle industry uh even electric bikes okay so and there was a woman let me just find her name on here uh there’s there is actual video on YouTube as well

Of the actual meeting in the council uh so I had a quick look at that I think her name was uh resident Rachel Matthews and she wasn’t on her own but the funny thing this is what strikes me is that a little bit odd is these people have gone there to urge

People not to buy electric cars but I’m wondering why have they have they urged the councelor not to have any cars if she’s against pollution of any sort then get rid of all cars I don’t think she said that are I I don’t know this is what the southern coasts of

Athens have looked like for the past 2 days a massive oil spill spreading off the coast of Southern California we have a massive oil spill in the Gul of fire right now a large oil slick has begun washing a ship it’s easy to find the oil

That’s washing up on the beaches in the northeast of Brazil who caused this oil spill suddenly the animals in Prince William sound were fighting for their lives all to stem an oil spill that some environmentalists are already calling an ecological disaster a massive oil spill has darkened the waters off the coast of

The island nation of Trinidad and Tobago what was her worry what’s her problem now she said about even about electric bikes she didn’t want electric bikes in her Town either and you know you you you’ve got to admit that an electric bike if somebody chose an electric bike over driving a diesel

Or petrol car for instance it’s going to be cleaner isn’t it maybe your argument is you should just ride a normal bike um I don’t know but let’s have a look at this article a little bit more and we’ll sort of get into it because it’s it’s a

Bit it’s very anti EV isn’t it if if you don’t want any electric vehicles anywhere near you even your neighbor you don’t want your neighbor to have one anybody not of electric bikes nothing electrical at all now in the video she was talking about lithium be in mind

Okay now I bet you I bet you $10 I’ll bet you $100 actually I’ll bet you $1,000 she’s got a mobile phone with a lithium battery in it which has also got Cobalt in it as well okay now I could see that she was complaining to the council about lithium Mining and Cobalt

Mining now I’m not here to say that lithium Mining and Cobalt mining is fantastic IC and is a mission free because everybody knows that if you extract something from out of the ground or whatever it is it’s it’s going to be it’s going to be emissions coming from

It and then also there’s the sort of negative facts of Cobo mining um to do with kids in the Congo is it in the Congo kids in the Congo uh digging up coo uh mining so it’s not good for the lungs and whatnot any Min is not good

For anybody is there remember coal mining years ago it wasn’t good for the coal miners was it um so I’m not you to defend that uh mining lithium and Cobalt is fantastic because it’s not right but it’s all about the end game isn’t it it’s all about the end game of uh what’s

The overall impact compared to the overall impact of making an electric vehicle and running it for 15 years and doing exactly the same for diesel or petrol car is the overall you know everything everything combined what’s the worst thing right so she’s saying that lithium minin

Is bad it is bad it’s bad okay um but she’s not saying drilling for oil it’s bad she’s not I I can’t hear her mentioning that I can’t me hear her mentioning about all the the oil spills and everything and all the animals getting killed from all the

Oil nobody’s mentioning I I’ve said this before I’ve said in the part this this is what gets me going a little bit right is that the the people around EV have all of a sudden become environmentalists but they were never there before where were these environmentalists when these diesel cars

Were cheating the emissions and they were pumping out all this cogenic exhaust fumes into people straight into your lungs that’s not good for LS here so where were these people then they they weren’t around but all of a sudden they’ve turned turned up and become environmentalists now electric cars are

Around so what’s been said then um let’s have a little read by campaigners have called on eco-conscious Council bosses to boycott the electric vehicle industry everything over its use of lithium batteries and instead fight for Hydro power um Hydro power are they on about wait a

Minute Hydro power let’s read a bit more uh coester council’s environment environment and sustainability panel came together to discuss their plans to combat what they described as a climate emergency oh and let me go back to Cobalt as well that one one was mentioning Cobalt lfp batteries no Cobalt any of

Face and the industry is going you know towards them kind of cob both free batteries so double in your face okay it’s not in your face you should just do a bit more research do a bit more research if you if you research more instead of going down a rabbit hole

Right come come reverse back out to the rabbit hole right and have a look get yourself a broad spectrum of searches and search everything and you might find some proper answers about the industry moving away from Cobalt they’ve already reduced Cobalt to the you know trying to

Get it down as much as possible and now they’re moving away from Cobo so come on all right so what was SP beef then let’s have a look resident Rachel Matthew said I’ve said this before we are collectively very concerned about the environmental issues and government policies we do not consent to public

Money being spent on any lithium battery operated vehicle no matter how enticing the Financial incentives are can we have the panel’s absolute in assurance that you will do the do what is right and not allow yourselves to be pressured into actions that do more harm than good

Now what’s what’s her evidence that it do does more harm than good all peer reviewed studies say that the you know if you take everything into consideration digging up oil or extracting allish should say or digging up lithium making cars running them until end of life or PE reviewed studies

Say that the electric car is better in the long term um so maybe she didn’t come to that conclusion she’s come to the conclusion that it’s worse uh well so she said we need to set an example and if everybody boycotts the electric vehicle industry and does not

Support it then this kind of thing stops so she’s really against it she’s absolutely dead set against it we have a duty to make these kind of atrocities not happen atrocities so oh look look come on right so among other suggestions the councilors were asked if they would

Consider looking into use of Hydro power energy for the fleet of sustainable Vehicles instead now what what they’re talking about is Rachel said for example she went onto the site JCB reported using a zero missions hydrogen engines which she says only produces dry steam now wait a wait a

Minute there we go right so then she’s she is saying now that she wants to go down the route of JCB now JCB uh have triled two different types of hydrogen Vehicles one of is a fuel cell one and one is hydrogen combustion now when was this this article was

Done uh when was this article done I think it was done about uh April 2023 so I don’t know if she’s talking about I think she’s talking about hydrogen combustion and she says it only produces dry steam it only produces dry steam the hydrogen’s made from fairies and pixies um

So why hasn’t she mentioned any sort of invironmental impact of extracting gas and making that to use hydrogen dirty hydrogen She haven’t mentioned green hydrogen at all she hav’t mentioned the energy for used to making hydrogen you haven’t mentioned any of that and also obviously uh combustion hydrogen does have exhaust

Emissions this does have a little bit it is less but um she hasn’t really done a research on hydrogen is [Laughter] she so there we go I don’t know um oh it’s a funny old thing isn’t it isin it funny so she’s gone down a rabbit hole of um looking into electric

Cars but she hasn’t really I can’t see her having any beef at all she’s got no problem with hydrogen I I think it’s hydrogen combustion she’s talking about uh are not hydrogen fuel cells I could be wrong because obviously hydrogen combustion is going to be even less efficient than hydrogen fuel cells um

But for some reason there’s no problem with that I I don’t know why I don’t know why oh dear me dear dear me uh so the council tried to talk to her but she didn’t want to have any of it um uh and this is not not having a go with her

It just it seems that she’s got sort of she doesn’t want any electric vehicles at all nothing not even electric bikes uh so that really is anti EV now that was in April last year but then in the Gazette standard I did see here that um The Gazette news which is the same

Article a couple of days ago it said more than half of the public says Kiama should keep the 28 billion green pledge poll oh no that’s a green pledge that’s a poll it was a poll sorry I didn’t read that right it should have been on the

Screen anyway so I don’t think that’s going to make that woman very happy about um she’s probably happy that um they’ve scrapped some of the 28 billion they haven’t scrapped a green pledge did they just said they’re not going to to spend 28 billion uh they’re probably

Going to spend less or maybe they might that might just be for you know keep everybody happy for for poing purposes when the election comes along and maybe when they get in and go haha caught you out but um there we go so this a it’s a funny mindset like I’ve said

Before this person has got it in her head that the enemy is electric vehicles and she can’t see a future where electric cars are the future which is really weird I mean I I I look at uh there’s a there’s a group on Facebook it’s called the 20 mph group or

Something it’s in Wales it is because we got 20 M hour speed limits and it was somebody on here saying that we should scrap electric cars I’ve said this before we should scrap electric cars and try and go back to the the guy who invented the water car

And quite a lot of people commented on her comment and I was expecting them to laugh at what she was saying but unfortunately a lot of them were agreeing with [Laughter] her you can it’s just physics just do some basic physics on the water car right you need energy to split that

Water into certain parts to create energy from hydrogen and that’s going to it’s just stupid I I don’t know what’s going on um but anyway I thought it was an interesting article where uh this person and a few other people in that in that place actually want to stop

Electric vehicles all together they want them out gone banned completely um I I think maybe she should go back and look at everything and look at maybe go look at what you know extracting oil what’s the damages that come from that maybe she should look into that a bit more

Trouble is people are comfortable with oil extraction and running fossil fuel cars it’s like what you know can’t hurt you because it’s like it’s all safe warm and fuzzy so anyway that was my bit of a rant for the day I I don’t know what to make it comment below what you

Think about there or go go look at the article yourself and tell me what you think do you think she’s right do you think she’s got a point or do you think she’s just blinked and can’t see anything else anyway if you like this video give it a like subscribe and I’ll

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