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Indonesian nickel project harms environment and human rights, report says

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Indonesian government has billed its nickel policy as a push toward clean energy. Mining of the metal has resulted in at least 5,331 hectares (13,173 acres) of deforestation. Report calls on global automakers sourcing their nickel from IWIP to exert pressure on the miners and smelters.

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Indonesian nickel project harms environment and human rights, report says

JAKARTA — A massive nickel mining and processing project on the Indonesian island of Halmahera has cleared thousands of hectares of forest, forcefully displaced local people, and polluted the rivers and sea, devastating the lives of many Indigenous people in the process, a new report says. Climate Rights International (CRI), a U.S.-based nonprofit, interviewed 45 people living near the mining and smelting operations at the Indonesia Weda Bay Ind…

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