Cobalt Miners: The human cost of clean energy

Eagle Mujinga manages workers astatine Shabara cobalt excavation successful the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). As the world’s biggest shaper of cobalt, the DRC is simply a portion of the concatenation that fuels electrical vehicles and renewable vigor worldwide. Miners successful the DRC look unsafe moving conditions and earn, connected average, a fewer dollars per time to proviso the multibillion-dollar industry.

Eagle is caught successful the mediate erstwhile unrest grows among miners who impeach overseas buyers of underweighing and undervaluing the cobalt they extract. Once a miner himself, tin Mujinga navigate demands from the miners portion maintaining relations with overseas buyers?

Cobalt Miners is simply a documentary movie by Arthur Nazaryan, Neild Brandvold, Mike Shum and Qinling Li.