NEW CALEDONIA: Making the case for a political ecology investigation at Goro nickel mine

New Caledonia’s Goro nickel mine, owned by Brazilian mining giant Vale, is unique in the world. The US $6 billion smelter, set over a vast biodiversity hotspot, is using high-pressure acid leaching treatment technology that has never been tested on such a scale. Over the past 10 years it has been th...

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Autor principal:	Nicole Gooch
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Publicado:	Asia Pacific Network 2015
Materias:	decolonisation development environmental journalism environmental risk indigenous research journalism research Communication. Mass media P87-96 Journalism. The periodical press, etc. PN4699-5650
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d1140cddf33047d59c2c0b9768bf468e2021-12-02T08:27:36ZNEW CALEDONIA: Making the case for a political ecology investigation at Goro nickel mine10.24135/pjr.v21i1.1551023-94992324-2035https://doaj.org/article/d1140cddf33047d59c2c0b9768bf468e2015-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/155https://doaj.org/toc/1023-9499https://doaj.org/toc/2324-2035New Caledonia’s Goro nickel mine, owned by Brazilian mining giant Vale, is unique in the world. The US $6 billion smelter, set over a vast biodiversity hotspot, is using high-pressure acid leaching treatment technology that has never been tested on such a scale. Over the past 10 years it has been the source of a series of environmental accidents, and the object of many conflicts, including intra-community conflicts (Horowitz, 2009, 2010). With multiple actors, complicated motives and set within a political and economic context of decolonisation and development, Vale New Caledonia’s mining project at Goro in the south of the main island of Grand Terre deserves to be the focus of a multi-dimensional and nuanced journalism investigation. This article argues that to do so requires combining journalism as a research practice with a political ecology framework. This combination should ensure that the journalist has an in-depth understanding of the structures and processes of the field (Nash, 2014), enabling her to interrogate, map the visible as well as the visible, and avoid the superficial.Nicole GoochAsia Pacific Networkarticledecolonisationdevelopmentenvironmental journalismenvironmental riskindigenous researchjournalism researchCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96Journalism. The periodical press, etc.PN4699-5650ENPacific Journalism Review, Vol 21, Iss 1 (2015)
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spellingShingle	decolonisation development environmental journalism environmental risk indigenous research journalism research Communication. Mass media P87-96 Journalism. The periodical press, etc. PN4699-5650 Nicole Gooch NEW CALEDONIA: Making the case for a political ecology investigation at Goro nickel mine
description	New Caledonia’s Goro nickel mine, owned by Brazilian mining giant Vale, is unique in the world. The US $6 billion smelter, set over a vast biodiversity hotspot, is using high-pressure acid leaching treatment technology that has never been tested on such a scale. Over the past 10 years it has been the source of a series of environmental accidents, and the object of many conflicts, including intra-community conflicts (Horowitz, 2009, 2010). With multiple actors, complicated motives and set within a political and economic context of decolonisation and development, Vale New Caledonia’s mining project at Goro in the south of the main island of Grand Terre deserves to be the focus of a multi-dimensional and nuanced journalism investigation. This article argues that to do so requires combining journalism as a research practice with a political ecology framework. This combination should ensure that the journalist has an in-depth understanding of the structures and processes of the field (Nash, 2014), enabling her to interrogate, map the visible as well as the visible, and avoid the superficial.
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title	NEW CALEDONIA: Making the case for a political ecology investigation at Goro nickel mine
title_short	NEW CALEDONIA: Making the case for a political ecology investigation at Goro nickel mine
title_full	NEW CALEDONIA: Making the case for a political ecology investigation at Goro nickel mine
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NEW CALEDONIA: Making the case for a political ecology investigation at Goro nickel mine

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