RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:So lameNo I'm not northvan. I think your bias against Russia is showing. I won't bother to serial post about the huge amount of pollution mining operations across the world generate. There are countless examples of that, and peer VALE is no exception. Here's just one small historical example much closer to home. SO2 emissions much in Sudbury? Sound just a tiny bit like Norilsk? I'll just point out that NILSY has/is spending billions of dollars to modernize their smelters and reduce SO2 emissions. On the CO2 emission side, it's also worth noting that NILSY plants operate largely on clean hydroelectric power. But hey, your mind was made up along time ago. I won't bother to try to convince you otherwise. Meanwhile, I'll continue to collect dividends from a world-class miner that is crucial to any transition to lower emission road transportation, whether it's ICE, HEV, PHEV, BEV, or FCEV.
>>>>>>When the Superstack was constructed in 1972, it was the tallest structure in Canada – and the tallest smokestack in the world. At 1,250 feet, it’s visible from every vantage point in the area. It can be seen from the bustling streets of downtown to the quiet cul-de-sacs of residential neighborhoods. It looms large in the distance from highways that feed into a city that is home to one of the largest mining complexes in the world. Built by Canadian company Inco before it was purchased by Vale, the Superstack has long stood as a reminder of the environmental devastation that mining wrought here. But this year the chimney is being fully decommissioned.... Whether or not the structure remains a fixture on the skyline when it’s taken out of operation, it tells a powerful tale of renewal. The stack was built as part of an industrial complex that denuded the land here of any kind of vegetation, leaving blackened rocks and lakes without fish. The landscape drew comparisons to moonscapes and barren Martian worlds. At one time the smelters in Sudbury were the largest point source of sulfur dioxide in the world...It got so bad that scientists, politicians, industry officials, and the community finally came together to halt the pollution, replant the trees, and restock the lakes. It has been 40 years of toil and triumph, and the story is not over yet.
https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2020/0924/The-Sudbury-model-How-one-of-the-world-s-major-polluters-went-green