(Jakarta Comprehensive Electric) The United Nations non -profit organization climate rights internationally accused Chinese and French companies in the nickel mining activity invested in eastern Indonesia, exacerbating local forest cutting problems and harming the rights of local residents.
The headquarters in the United States issued a report on Wednesday (January 17) that the nickel mine industry park (Weda Bay Industrial Park), a nickel mining area in Halmahera, North Maluku, North Maruku,Caused severe forest cutting, as well as air and water pollution, a large amount of greenhouse gases were emitted by the coal -fired power plants in the park.
The report states that at least 5,331 hectares of tropical forests have been cut off, equivalent to the area of more than 6,000 football fields, with a total emission of about 2.04 metric tons of greenhouse gases.
The local residents interviewed accused the local police of assisting mining companies to grab land and intimidate the aboriginal people.
Weida Bay Industrial Park is operated by three Chinese -funded enterprises, namely China Qingshan Group, Huayou Cobalt and Zhenshi Holdings Group. The French nickel industry giant Eramet is also one of the investors.
The report pointed out that since 2018, Wuda Bay Industrial Park has built five coal -fired power plants to power the smelting facilities, and it is also planned to build 12 more.The coal consumed by 17 coal -fired power plants is more consumed than Spain or Brazil each year.
The International Organization of Climate Rights calls on enterprises to immediately take measures to correct pollution and properly dispose of slag to minimize the destruction of the environment as much as possible.
Nickel is a key metal for manufacturing electric vehicle batteries.As the trend of electric vehicles swept the world, Indonesia, which has one -fifth of the world's nickel -reserves, appeared in Indonesia to invest in mining fever.Experts are worried that this may exacerbate Indonesia's environmental problems.
