diff --git a/consumer/config/constants.js b/consumer/config/constants.js
index e9157ee..a386a32 100644
--- a/consumer/config/constants.js
+++ b/consumer/config/constants.js
@@ -4,5 +4,6 @@ export const EVENT = {
     PROJECT_DRAFT_CREATED: 'project.draft-created',
     PROJECT_UPDATED: 'project.updated',
     PROJECT_DELETED: 'project.deleted',
+    CONNECT_TO_SF_FAILED: 'connect2sf.failed'
   },
 };
diff --git a/consumer/src/services/ConfigurationService.js b/consumer/src/services/ConfigurationService.js
index 55c2ee3..025dcb4 100644
--- a/consumer/src/services/ConfigurationService.js
+++ b/consumer/src/services/ConfigurationService.js
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ class ConfigurationService {
         },
       },
     }).promise();
-    console.log('node env: ' + process.env.NODE_ENV);
     if (!result.Items.length) {
       throw new Error('Configuration for AppXpressConfig not found');
     }
diff --git a/consumer/src/worker.js b/consumer/src/worker.js
index 6ea3af5..7254c35 100644
--- a/consumer/src/worker.js
+++ b/consumer/src/worker.js
@@ -35,8 +35,9 @@ export function initHandlers(handlers) {
  * @param {String} exchangeName the exchange name
  * @param {String} queue the queue name
  */
-export async function consume(channel, exchangeName, queue) {
+export async function consume(channel, exchangeName, queue, publishChannel) {
   channel.assertExchange(exchangeName, 'topic', { durable: true });
+  publishChannel.assertExchange(exchangeName, 'topic', { durable: true });
   channel.assertQueue(queue, { durable: true });
   const bindings = _.keys(EVENT_HANDLERS);
   const bindingPromises = _.map(bindings, rk =>
@@ -73,8 +74,22 @@ export async function consume(channel, exchangeName, queue) {
         if (e.shouldAck) {
           channel.ack(msg);
         } else {
-          // acking for debugging issue on production. this would prevent log pile up
+          // ack the message but copy it to other queue where no consumer is listening
+          // we can listen to that queue on adhoc basis when we see error case like lead not created in SF
+          // we can use cloudamqp console to check the messages and may be manually create SF lead
+          // nacking here was causing flood of messages to the worker and it keep on consuming high resources
           channel.ack(msg);
+          try {
+            publishChannel.publish(
+              exchangeName,
+              EVENT.ROUTING_KEY.CONNECT_TO_SF_FAILED,
+              new Buffer(msg.content.toString())
+            );
+          } catch(e) {
+            // TODO decide if we want nack the original msg here
+            // for now just ignoring the error in requeue
+            logger.logFullError(e, `Error in publising Exchange to ${exchangeName}`);
+          }
         }
       }
     });
@@ -91,7 +106,13 @@ async function start() {
     debug('created connection successfully with URL: ' + config.rabbitmqURL);
     const channel = await connection.createConfirmChannel();
     debug('Channel confirmed...');
-    consume(channel, config.rabbitmq.projectsExchange, config.rabbitmq.queues.project);
+    const publishChannel = await connection.createConfirmChannel();
+    consume(
+      channel,
+      config.rabbitmq.projectsExchange,
+      config.rabbitmq.queues.project,
+      publishChannel
+    );
   } catch (e) {
     debug('Unable to connect to RabbitMQ');
   }
diff --git a/consumer/test/worker.spec.js b/consumer/test/worker.spec.js
index 368a7f8..02b3102 100644
--- a/consumer/test/worker.spec.js
+++ b/consumer/test/worker.spec.js
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import './setup';
 describe('worker', () => {
   describe('consume', () => {
     const queueName = 'sample-queue';
-    const exchangeName = EVENT.ROUTING_KEY.PROJECT_DRAFT_CREATED//'sample-exchange';
+    const exchangeName = 'sample-exchange';
     const validMessage = {
       content: JSON.stringify({ sampleData: 'foo' }),
       properties: { correlationId : 'unit-tests'},
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ describe('worker', () => {
     let rabbitConsume;
     let exchangeHandlerSpy = sinon.spy();
     let fakeExchangeHandlerSpy = sinon.spy();
+    let channelPublishSpy = sinon.spy();
 
     beforeEach(() => {
       handler = sinon.spy();
@@ -58,7 +59,11 @@ describe('worker', () => {
             done(e);
           }
         },
-      }, exchangeName, queueName);
+      }, exchangeName, queueName,
+      {
+        publish: channelPublishSpy,
+        assertExchange
+      });
     }
 
     it('should consume and ack a message successfully', (done) => {
@@ -91,7 +96,7 @@ describe('worker', () => {
       invokeConsume(done);
     });
 
-    xit('should nack if error is thrown', (done) => {
+    it('should ack, with message being copied to temp queue, if error is thrown', (done) => {
       initHandlers({
         [exchangeName] : () => {
           throw new Error('foo');
@@ -99,7 +104,8 @@ describe('worker', () => {
       })
       rabbitConsume = async (queue, fn) => {
         await fn(validMessage);
-        nack.should.have.been.calledWith(validMessage);
+        ack.should.have.been.calledWith(validMessage);
+        channelPublishSpy.should.have.been.calledWith(exchangeName, EVENT.ROUTING_KEY.CONNECT_TO_SF_FAILED, new Buffer(validMessage.content));
       };
       invokeConsume(done);
     });