In Quebec, the largest nickel mine is owned by Glencore, a Swiss-owned multi-national corporation. It has been operating out of Raglan since 1997, close to the province’s northern tip, and it produces 240,000 tonnes of raw material annually, according to the company. Glencore also calls Raglan “one of the world’s purest series of nickel deposits.”
From Raglan, Glencore transports nickel on its ship to the Port of Quebec where it’s offloaded into a sealed storage dome before being transferred to railcars bound for a smelter in Sudbury. At the smelter, it’s partially refined then returned to the port by rail. From there, it’s put onto another ship bound for a refinery in Norway to be sold as pure nickel.
Maurice Moreau, Glencore Canada Environmental Management Systems Lead for Ontario and Quebec, at the Glencore facility at Quebec Port in Limoilou. He places the blame for the poor air quality elsewhere: wood-burning stoves, the municipal incinerator, and car pollution, among other sources. During a tour of the port, Glencore’s head of environmental systems management for Quebec and Ontario said the company is not responsible for getting nickel into the air in Limoilou. “Nickel has a great value for us. That’s where we make our profit. We don’t want to be losing nickel into the air,” said Moe Moreau.through the first half of 2022, has spent $60-million over the past decade to improve its atmospheric nickel-capturing mechanisms.
A study found that people in Limoilou are 1.3 times more likely to have asthma and 1.5 times more likely to be hospitalized for respiratory illness, compared to those up the hill in Quebec City’s Haute-Ville area.concluded that it is “very improbable” that nickel in Limoilou’s air comes from anywhere but the port. It also found that the nickel contained an iron sulfide called pentlandite — a potentially more dangerous form of the metal.
Electric cars are an issue that affect the top, what %5 of richest Canadians, if that? Stop acting like this is some sort of solution. It barely causes improvements to emissions and has environmental costs all of it's own.
Oh time to offshore this part of the clean energy too.
- It takes 4-5 days to drive from Toronto to Florida in an electric car. All that recharging time. A gasoline powered car takes about 2 days. -