Protesters burn vehicles, buildings at New Caledonia nickel mine
SYDNEY, May 27 (Reuters) – Rioters torched vehicles, equipment and buildings at Vale’s nickel mine in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia over the weekend, as anger boiled over about a chemical spill in a local river.
The $6 billion Vale plant at Goro in southern New Caledonia was closed earlier this month after some 100,000 litres of acid-tainted effluent leaked, killing about 1,000 fish and sparking renewed protests at the mine site.
Read more at: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/05/27/vale-sa-newcaledonia-spill-idUKL3N0OC3DN20140527
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