Goal and Route

1. Goal and Route This presentation focuses on NICKEL production at Siberian Far East (High Arctic Region of Russia). It is designed to DESCRIBE. It takes you through the cradle to grave lifecycle of NICKEL, paying particular attention to the social, environmental and public health impacts of the processes associated with NICKEL. I start by looking at (analyzing) the impact of EXTRACTION upon the well-being of the local ecosphere and local indigenous and urban populace (while paying particular attention to the disproportionate rate of impact as associated with factors of race and standard of living). I then proceed to describe and analyze the impact of PRODUCTION upon environment, indigenous and urban populace. I continue with the description of the urban and indigenous communities in detail and analyze the disproportionate distribution of health hazards, as associated with nickel industry. This is followed by the analytical description of DISTRIBUTION/TRANSPORTATION of nickel, from its point of extraction to the point of overseas markets. I go on to describe the overseas CONSUMPTION of nickel and analyze the confirmative effect of such a practice as affecting people and environment at the source of nickel production. I conclude with the analysis of waste generation and handling as impacting, now, the environment at the point of consumption.

2. 05/03 Introduction The critical-analytical core of this project is founded upon recognition of the impact upon biotic and human communities stressed, impaired and threatened to benefit industrial production of nickel. The project turns to account for a critical use of resources with: Industrial disregard to indigenous right to dwell on ancestral land and to carry on an intimate Earth-connected way of living. Indigenous communities� way of outlook of �Earth is sacred�. The disproportionate succumbing to health hazards by indigenous communities. The dependency of urban workers upon the nickel production for the very livelihood and the consequent socio-economic entrapment. The particular vulnerability of Arctic environment as it�s being impacted by transportation of nickel to overseas markets. Factors that contribute to hefty Western consumption of nickel.

3. 05/03 www.mining-technology.com Geography and Production Data Norilsk Nickel stands in the Russian High Arctic, about 2,800 km north of Moscow. The Norilsk nickel deposits were discovered during the 1920s, with nickel production starting during WWII. Underground mining began in the 1950s. The operating company was privatized by the Russian government in 1995, and is now controlled by the Unexim Bank. The company also controls the Severonikel and Pechenganikel mines on the Kola and Taimir Peninsulas.

4. 05/03 www.arcticphoto.co.uk Visual Overlay The nickel production at Far East, High Arctic region of Russian Federation, headed by Norilsk Nickel is marked by conglomerate expansion with oligarchic pattern of power. Due to the vulnerability of Arctic environment, the biodome is least adapted to act as a sink for the deluge of contaminants, which affect flora, fauna, indigenous peoples� well-being as well as that of urban dwellers whose livelihood is centered upon nickel production, being �company�s town.�