What are your views on this???
They plan on opening not one but 2 plants in south Trinidad. One in La Brea and another in the Cap-de-ville/Chatam area. Just last week we were talking about ALCOA in my Business Ethics class and the harmful effects of aluminum production. I have been doing some research and this is what I found so far:

Aluminum industry laborers, wherever they work, face severe on-the-job health risks. Smelter potrooms are a particularly hazardous workspace. At an Alcan smelter in British Columbia, Canada, over 20 workers have been disabled by or died from on-site exposures to cancerous emissions.

Since the late 1970s, scientists have correlated elevated bladder cancer rates in smelter potroom workers. In 1989, Alcoa told an Australia newspaper that it "emphatically rejects" any such risk for smelter workers. In 1999, Alcoa finally sent warnings to thousands of its workers worldwide that "a small increase in cancer could be expected at lower levels of exposure than had previously been expected."

Ecological Toll

The industry also exacts steep tolls from surrounding communities and ecosystems. Fluoride emissions from the Nalco smelter in India plague local villagers with brittle bones, tooth and gum diseases, and lumps of dead skin. Their cattle, more prone to fluoride contamination, commonly suffer from bone deformities and rising death rates. In one village within a kilometer of the plant, the local herd of cattle dropped from 3,000 to 100 head in a ten year period. Similar symptoms of fluorosis are apparent in villages around the world's fourth largest smelter, in Tursunzade, Tajikistan.

A Quebec, Canada, region that hosts four Alcan smelters has the highest

birth defect rate in the country. It leads the province in deaths caused by malignant tumors. Biologists have connected emissions from these smelters with cancers in beluga whales downstream in the Saint Lawrence Estuary.

What are your views???