The Fen deposit holds almost 9 million tonnes of rare earth ore, making it the biggest known source in Europe. But to get to it, Rare Earths Norway will have to dig underneath a village of over 2,000 people. Can they do it in time?

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We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. We’ll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Credits:
Reporter – Adam Baheej Adada
Camera – Henning Goll
Supervising Editors – Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann, Kiyo Dörrer
Editing & Animation – Adam Baheej Adada
Thumbnail – Em Chabridon
Factcheck – Kirsten Funck

Read more:

https://single-market-economy.ec.euro…

https://fensfeltet.no/en/om-fensfelte…

https://www.csis.org/analysis/consequ…

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:55 The Fen Deposit
02:46 What’s inside?
04:53 The ‘invisible mine’
06:36 What do the locals think?
08:24 Critical materials for the EU
11:00 Conclusion

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