Nickel, Hybrid Batteries, Canada, Environmental Disaster?
Created September 16, 2007, at 10:27 am by AirplanePilot
Hello,
In other forums, I have seen hybrid haters bring up stories about how a Nickel mine/processeing facility has severely damaged an area of Canada, and of course, all this stuff about oil being burned from Nickel being transported all over from mines and processing facilities to areas of where NiMH batteries are produced...are these things true?
Or is this just another made-up thing for the hybrid-haters to love and argue over...
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2 years ago
That particular story is a fabricated story. It works as follows:
1) Many decades ago the Nickel Mining Operation at Sudbury, Canada was run without any environmental concerns, resulting in a big mess. (The nickel was mined mostly for stainless steel.)
2) Canada and the Mining Industry finally got smarter and started to clean up the mess.
3) Someone with an anti-hybrid (and more specifically, an anti-Prius) focus decided to connect the following dots: a) Prius uses Nickel Metal Hydride Batteries and b) Here are some ancient photos of an ugly nickel mine. So the story published was:
4) Hybrids are destroying the environment.
It seems to have been a rather successful lie.
8 weeks ago
Ok this comment is extremely late but seeing as i just stumbled on to it thought i add a statement.
Their is a lot info showing that even if in that one area their are not problems in the mining over all the mining and refining process of NiMH is very environmentally damaging and their was even a study done that shows over a cars life time hummers are better for the environment than a Prius ( http://reason.org/news/show/122517.html )
every hybrid driver who denies these statements is in denial that their holy hybrid is that bad for the environment and besides hybrids were never anything more than a way to produce cars that still required gas we need to get hydrogen fuel cells or fully electric if we actually want to stop harming the environment while we drive
8 weeks ago
specifically, an anti-Prius) focus decided to connect the following dots: a) Prius uses Nickel Metal Hydride Batteries and b) Here are some ancient photos of an ugly nickel mine. So the story published was:
4) Hybrids are destroying the environment.
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