New Caledonia: Vale nickel operations allegedly polluting air & contaminating seafood comprising indigenous communities' livelihood
요약
보고된 날짜: 2019년 8월 23일
위치: 뉴칼레도니아
기업 페이지
Vale Nouvelle-Calédonie (VALE NC) - Subsidiary , Vale - Parent Company프로젝트
Vale Nouvelle-Calédonie (VALE NC) Nickel & Cobalt Mine(s) in New Caledonia (Mine Name Unknown) - Unknown영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Community: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 위치를 알 수 없음 - 알 수 없는 업종 , Gender not reported )토픽들
토착민 , 수질 오염 , 생계에 미치는 영향 , 대기 오염결과
Response sought: 아니오
출처: News outlet
"Rhéébù Nùù group and Vale mining, New Caledonia", 05 February 2019
Vale’s “Southern Refinery” project.. is located at the southern tip of the main island of New Caledonia. It involves mining nickel and cobalt, as well as construction of a refinery that uses hydrometallurgical technology. In this procedure...acid under pressure leaches nickel and cobalt from the ore, with effluent discharged into the sea... Operations are continuing, despite delays caused by acid leaks in 2009, 2010, 2012, and 2014 (both the first and most recent of which devastated the local freshwater ecosystem)... Rhéébù Nùù, and the villagers they represented, were especially concerned about what was popularly known as “the pipe”, the diffuser that would transport waste products, including neutralized sulfuric acid and dissolved metals, into the Havannah Canal, where local people fish. The most dangerous impact has been almost entirely ignored: mercury from the coal-fired power plant, which will contaminate local seafood, upon which the communities depend for sustenance....However, in September 2008, four Rhéébù Nùù leaders, twenty-five customary authorities and two Goro Nickel representatives signed a “Pact for Sustainable Development of the Far South [of New Caledonia]”. Through this agreement, the mining company committed to creating both a Corporate Foundation to fund local development initiatives and a “Consultative Customary Environmental Committee” composed of senior male customary authorities who could recommend further studies... and to [commit to] an extensive reforestation program. In exchange, Rhéébù Nùù members committed to “assert their point of view not through violent or illegal actions, but by dialogue”.