Concerns over spills at New Caledonia nickel processing plant
A nickel expert says questions need to be asked about Vale’s risk management procedures, workers’ behaviour and the design of its processing plant in New Caledonia to find out why spills keep happening there.
Operations have been suspended at the Goro plant for more than two weeks after 100,000 litres of effluent, containing some acid, ended up in a creek.
Environmentalists and the indigenous population are calling for the plant, which is next to a World Heritage Site and has had five spills in five years, to be shut permanently.
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