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This Renew Economy article does a good job of deconstructing the disinformation around cobalt and renewables, pointing out that…

“Nearly every big battery installed in Australia these days uses lithium iron phosphate chemistry, which means no cobalt, and no nickel”

and that…

“cobalt has been used widely in many industries”

…which long predate the current boom for rebuildables.

But it contains a kind of disinformation of its own by omission…

https://reneweconomy.com.au/wild-attack-on-batteries-and-renewables-by-7s-spotlight-program-falls-over-at-the-first-fact-check/