Journal frankie's Journal: Is Canadian nickel in The No-Fact Zone? 4
While browsing for disinformative comments to downmod, I came across this likely candidate.
Take a casual glance at http://www.google.com/search?q=canada+nickel+dead-zone+nasa and you'll see the obvious fingerprints of a dittohead smear campaign. However, the question is
My searches didn't find any factual reports about nickel mines in Canada; either the story doesn't exist or it's completely overshadowed by the turd blossoms. Anyone else have better sources?
I'd give it a thumbs down (Score:2)
I went to Snopes, hoping to find an easy answer, but no luck. As the other poster commented, yes, mines contribute to pollution. However, considering all of the other blatantly false claims on the sites making the Canadian mining claims, I'd say they have *negative* credibility. I checked greenpeace.org and epa.gov, thinking at least one of them would cover it if it was a serious environmental problem - no hits from either.
Welll..... (Score:2)
Now I have no first hand knowledge of Canadian nickel refineries, but Canada being Canada, I would be very surprised if they didn't have sufficient pollution controls to prevent the sort of massive pollution you'd need to show a massive die
A nugget of truth surrounded by misinformation (Score:2)
Sudbury, Ontario [wikipedia.org] is known as the Nickel City due to large deposits of the mineral in the surrounding area. The region suffered from acid rain and other environmental effects until recently, but describing it as a "dead zone" is grossly inaccurate. Sudbury has been at the forefront of the environmental movement for decades and has been internationally recognized for its conservation programs.
NASA astronauts trained in Sudbury during the Sixties, but they didn't go there because the area was a moon-like w