Politics

Russian Arctic Peoples Appeal to Elon Musk for Nornickel Boycott

Indigenous group says miner turned land into ‘lunar landscape’
Nornickel is facing increased scrutiny of environmental record

Provide news feedback or report an error

Confidential tip?

Send a tip to our reporters

Site feedback:

Take our Survey

By Aine Quinn

August 7, 2020 at 11:57 AM UTC

This article is for subscribers only.

A group of indigenous people in Russia are asking Tesla Inc’s Elon Musk to stop buying supplies from miner MMC Norilsk Nickel PJSC until the company compensates them for environmental damage to their ancestral lands.

“The lands of indigenous people appropriated by the company for industrial production now resemble a lunar landscape,” members of the Aborigen Forum network wrote in an open letter to Musk this week. “Traditional use of these lands is no longer possible.”