In July 2009, Vale NL began assembling a $2.17 billion nickel refinery in Long Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador. The refinery would bring economic prosperity by creating jobs in an area of high unemployment, by creating 400 to 500 permanent 1,600 to 2,000 jobs. The project's environmental evaluation procedure started the business in 2006 had successfully completed the necessary environmental impact statements for the government authorities. An important environmental issue was the disposal of tailings from the refinery, as well as the approved remedy was to keep them in an all-natural lake known as Sandy Pond.
Member of numerous environmental NGOs had contrasting use of the lake as a "tailings impoundment area" and shaped the Sandy Pond Alliance for Protection of Canadian Waters (SPA). SPA considered that the regulation that permitted the use was inconsistent with environmental legislation, although using natural lakes was enabled. SPA needed to decide whom to target in its efforts, and the way to challenge the usage of tailings ponds in Canada at Long Harbour and elsewhere. Instead of being designed as a management decision making exercise, this case places students in the position of environmentalists as they determine what plan of action to initiate.
PUBLICATION DATE: October 01, 2013 PRODUCT #: NA0223-HCB-ENG
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