20 September 2024 - No investment in Serbia’s recent history has sparked as much controversy as Rio Tinto’s lithium mining project Jadar. All about the Jadar project, from 2001 to the present day.
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We are following what both the authorities and Rio Tinto are doing. We are not going to charge all the time. We won't have a very intensive tempo, so that we don't spend the people's energy. But we will indeed be showing we are here. Interchangeably: some combination of public discussions, protests, blockades.
Ljiljana Bralović, president of the Association of Environmental Organizations of Serbia (SEOS)
