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Julia Guarniz, a street vendor in the Peruvian highland village of Choropampa, watches blankly as a seven-vehicle convoy thunders past. "They scare me," she says, pointing at the "hazardous materials" signs on the sides of the juggernauts. "When I see them, I worry that it might happen again."Similar convoys carry toxic material through the village several times a day on the degraded highway that runs 600km from Yanacocha, the world's most productive gold mine, to the port of Callao in Lima.
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Just days after AngloGold Ashanti fended off allegations of paying
bribes to militia groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Anvil
Mining has come under intense scrutiny over its supply of
air and ground transport to the DRC army for an operation that led to
the alleged slaughter of more than 100 people last October.
It is understood the government requested the use of Anvil's air
services and land vehicles to help mobilise Congolese troops to Kilwa,
FBI chief Louis Freeh met with Czech Interior Minister Stanislav Gross to finalize arrangements and discuss an agenda for the joint US-Czech project, which is to include at least one agent and an administrative force. Although the training and intelligence gathering center is supposed to be fighting organized crime, the Central and Eastern European Review reports that one of the ''main topics of discussion during Freeh's visit was the upcoming joint IMF/World Bank annual meeting in Prague in September.''
"Bolivia has natural gas, water, coca and all kinds of natural resources," said one activist. "But the problem is that they keep stealing it from us."
As deforestation erodes rural life, a priest has taken on the timber industry and forced an unofficial freeze. Critics call him inflexible.
Centennial Coal is attempting buy 'people's opinions and right to free speech' with its property purchase contracts for a new mine, according Greenpeace and a local residents group.
Unbeknownst to the driver, at least one canister leaked 330 pounds of glittering silver droplets onto the highway, attracting curious residents of the small farming community called Choropampa.
The war between the world's largest woodchip exporter, Gunns Limited, and the Australian conservation community has been raging for decades. But the company's recent efforts to silence Tasmanian activists through lawsuits could earn them millions and set a very dangerous precedent.
Human Rights Watch today called on the United States to throw its support behind an upcoming United Nations-sponsored World Conference Against Racism.
Federal prosecutors yesterday charged W.R. Grace & Co. with exposing mine workers and residents in a small mountain community in Montana to deadly asbestos and covering up the danger.