Metal Production Plants Are Being Shutdown Around The World At Alarming Rates

SEE: Food Processing Plants And Distribution Centers Are Burning Down. *UPDATE 11* World’s Biggest Plant In Paris Catches Fire

The reduction of different metals necessary for basic infrastructure and a plethora of everyday items are an integral part of some of these climate and sustainability agendas.

According to the Absolute Zero agenda plans, the following things concerning mining, production, and construction must occur:

[By 2030] Steel recycling grows while cement and blast furnace iron reduce; some plastics with process emissions reduce. [By 2050] Cement and new steel phased out along with emitting plastics. Steel recycling grows. Aluminum, paper reduced with energy supply.

Reduced cement supply compensated by improved material efficiency, new steel replaced by recycled steel [by 2030]. [Then] All conventional mortar and concrete phased out, all steel recycled [by 2050]. Focus on retrofit and adaption of existing buildings. 

[By 2030] Steel recycling grows while cement and blast furnace iron reduce; some plastics with process emissions reduce. [By 2050] Cement and new steel phased out along with emitting plastics. Steel recycling grows. Aluminum, paper reduced with energy supply.

Natural News compiled a list of the facilities they are aware of that have shutdown this year:

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• UNIPROMKAP, the only aluminum smelter in Montenegro, was shut down permanently after failing to pay for the rising cost of electricity. The electricity provider could not provide an economical price for electricity, forcing the aluminum smelter to shut its doors for good.
• MMG LTD LAS BAMBAS, a copper mine in Peru, went offline in February 2022. Activists blocked the road to the mine, shuttering its operations.
• ARCELORMITTAL SA, a formerly large Ukrainian steel plant, shuttered its operations in March after several foreign companies buckled under pressure to Russia’s invasion — rendering the steel plant uneconomical.
• Liberty Steel’s mill at Rotherham in the U.K. could not keep up with rising electricity costs and had no choice but to stop production entirely.
• The SALZGITTERAG Steel Producer in Germany significantly reduced its smelting operations in March at their Peine plant, laying off many workers in the process.
• The ARCELORMITTAL SA’S SESTAO Steel Plant in Olaberria, Spain was forced to close back in March after enduring high electricity costs. Operations have been intermittent since.
• High energy costs also forced the Celsa Group to cut back on steel production in Barcelona. Their furnaces operate intermittently, as the mill adapts to spikes in energy prices.
• The Acerinox Steel Plant, the largest steel producer in Spain, went offline in March. The company has since shuttered its operation in Cadiz.
• The Southern Copper Corps Cuajone Mine, the second largest copper producer in Peru, suspended operations after activists cut off the company’s water and railroad access.
• CODELCO’S VENTANASC, a leading copper smelter in Chile, closed its Ventanas smelter, after the ecological controller reported multiple sicknesses in the workforce.
• The ACCIAIERIE D’ITALIA Steel Mill from Italy shut down nearly all operations after production costs became insurmountable. The company has only one blast furnace still in operation.
• NORSK HYDRO, a prominent aluminum smelter in Europe, shuttered its plant in Slovakia in August of 2022. Electricity prices continue to put pressure on aluminum smelters across Europe.
• The Columbia Steel Casting Company from Portland, Oregon shut down it factory it October, putting an end to an operation that was more than a century old.
• The Talum aluminum smelter is reducing its aluminum production by 20% due to the energy costs. Production is also dropping by double digits for several foundries, including Dundee Precious Metals from Bulgaria, Oz Minerals from Australia, BHP Group, an iron ore producer from Australia, Aura Minerals, a gold producer from Honduras, Vale SA from Brazil, Fortress Minerals from Malaysia, First Quantum Minerals from Canada, and Anglo-American copper smelting operations from South Africa, Cameroon, Brazil and Australia.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.

Ecclesiastes 10:10

One must use wisdom to discern this odd puzzle as to why all these plants are being shutdown – which is what I explained in the beginning of this report: these shutdowns, whether directly or indirectly, are helping to fulfil these climate agendas. In order to usher in a standstill of the global economy and production, the very things to build and repair are being stripped away, as is the food and shipping.

International Ports Going “Net Zero” And “Smart” Could Explain Some Of Supply Chain Shortages And Famine

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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