Nickel is a key component in many EV batteries, and Indonesia is by the far the world’s biggest supplier of the mineral. But obtaining nickel for electric car makers like Tesla is dirty work and is quite polluting to the environment.
WSJ takes a visit to Obi Island for a rare look inside one of the country’s biggest nickel plants that is key in the global nickel supply chain. We reveal the heavy environmental toll behind mining and processing the metal.
00:00 The world’s largest producer of nickel
00:46 Why Indonesia for nickel
01:58 Environmental impact
03:02 Nickel mining
#Nickel #EV #WSJ
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Really sad. Not worth it.
Looks like a monoculture tree planting 😅
Is this publicity or a pr stunt against evs again, american propaganda is so weird 😅
There is so much hypocrisy in the environmental friendly movement! Nickel mining is only one piece of the terrible environmental efforts to obtain and distribute the technology they promote.
That wasn't surprise . mining for EV battery never meant to be environment friendly. It is same as oil industry but environment activists only blame oil industry.
The Addition of the tag " Like Tesla" seems to be targeting a particular company, Infact Nickel for every EV companies mined in this method so dont create false narrative to vilify a particular company.
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Why is the Subject focussing on EV? Why not Cell Phones, Laptops & "Power Walls"??? It wouldn't be that the WSJ is playing the game of CLICK BAIT now, would it??? 👀🤔🤦♂
as soon as tesla stock goes up, the whole msm goes loud on tesla. its crazy to see
What about underwater petroleum ? . How both compare. Which is more impactful . Do u remember deep sea horizon? Hi
The solution is simple.we're all should travel with bicycle
Yes Europeans and the West are always right about environmental issues. And they are the ones who shout about environmental issues the most, and they lie about their country being the most environmentally friendly. Developing countries also want to be developed countries!
EVs are going to be the end of our planet for mankind.
But majority of Nickel company in Indonesia are chinese company that's why China dominates EV industry in the world thanks to Indonesia
looks like Indonesia is going to cut all forests on its islands. Nice
let's see this comment in ten years
Just to show that WSJ is capable of trustworthy (rather than biased against both China and Indonesia) reporting, it pays to also investigate US’ mining giant: Freeport Mcmoran conduct there.
Many have likened it to real life example of Avatar movie.
Papua island as Pandora Planet,
its indingenous population as Navii tribe and
Freeport Mcmoran as the RDA ( Resources Development Authority) which are backed by
the ruthless Indonesian Police and Army (the US Marine)😂
Most of indonesian nickel nowadays are used in stainless steel industry though. That's why Europeans are salty and fighting this nickel ore export ban. They are protecting their stainless steel indistry.
When the Indonesian government sought to ban nickel exports, they invited all parties to invest in building their own smelters in the country. However, rather than investing in creating environmentally friendly nickel smelters, Western nations brought this issue to the WTO in an attempt to cancel this move. Their main fear was losing the nickel ore for their own smelters.
China was the only country that had the courage to invest in Indonesia. If western countries are concerned about the environmental impact, why don't they come in and invest here, showing us how it can be done in an environmentally friendly manner?
The supply chain for electric cars will cause many problems in countries in the global south. Nations like Indonesia, Brazil or Congo will suffer great environmental damage.
disgusting i can't believe my country support something as stupid as EV what next solar power
0:57 "nickel is the cheapest…"
I'm just nitpicking here since i haven't seen the full video of his presentation
But in saying that, shouldn't electric cars be cheaper than they are right now?
Manufacturing costs might be expensive rn since producing batteries mean companies need to build their own battery manufacturing machines, but doesn't that mean they're lying to us by saying that nickel is cheaper when at the end electric cars are more expensive than ICE cars?
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Indonesia ❤🇮🇩🙏
If mining nickel in Indonesia is dirty, why western country sues Indonesia over nickel ore export ban? Western dont care about environment in Indonesia if they can get nickel ore to run their stainless steel and EV industries. Sudenly they talk about environment when Indonesia build nickel downstream for global EV supply chain and stainless steel that can replace western as a producers. Thats all. Its all just about money and hypocrisy.
Mulai lagi black Campaign. 🤣 🤣 Barat Gitu loh.
yap indonesia has environmental issue regarding mining, but we intent to improve it, but somehow our export banned on some raw mined material bother developed western world, why ?