Channel Seven’s Spotlight dug for dirt on renewable energy. Here’s what they left out

Channel 7’s 7News Spotlight reporter Liam Bartlett gave no right of reply to Australia’s renewable energy industry over claims it uses cobalt mined in awful conditions in Africa.
Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Children sieve mud, workers drop down claustrophobic hand-cut mine shafts, men grimace while others carve out rock with chisels in bare feet to recover cobalt “for our renewable green dream”.

These were the dramatic scenes from the Democratic Republic of Congo in a “special investigation” from Channel Seven’s Spotlight program, aired in prime-time on Sunday evening.