As a Russian nickel plant faces closure, locals fear for their town’s future
The Nornickel plant in Nikel, near the borders with Norway and Finland, is the town's main employer.
The toxic smoke that for decades has embraced the borderlands between Russia and Norway might soon vanish, as Russian nickel producer Nornickel closes its plant in Nikel. The closure will help save and restore vulnerable nature. But the local population worries that Nikel will end up as an abandoned ghost town.
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