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Originally Posted by mdoyle
The irony is that the plant in Canada making materials for the Prius battery has destroyed the surrounding environment, from the article: Toyota gets the metal from a Canadian company whose smelting facility at Sudbury has spewed sulphur dioxide into the air for more than a century.
The car giant buys about 1,000 tons a year from the plant, which is owned by Inco, one of the world's largest nickel-mining companies.
Fumes emerging from the factory are so poisonous that they have destroyed vegetation in the surrounding countryside, turning the once-beautiful landscape into the bare, rocky terrain astronauts might expect to find in outer space.
Here's a full link:
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/...n_page_id=1770 |
I work for INCO...thats is sooooo not the case anymore, most of the trees were used in the smelting of nickel back in the old days..they used the trees for the smelting beds...for heat