Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Stories about the horror of Mining and Nuke Plants!

EARTHWORKS shared Grand Canyon Trust's photo.
From our friends at the Grand Canyon Trust

A reminder, although they're not zombie mines -- the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that clean up of abandoned (corpse?) mines could cost the public $50 billion. Because the hardrock mining industry, unlike coal mining, pays no reclamation fee.
Zombie mines have been shut down, and then allowed to resume operations with no modifications to their outdated plans of operation; no new environmental review. Happy Halloween http://gctru.st/ZombieMines
 
Zombie mines have been shut down, and then allowed to resume operations with no modifications to their outdated plans of operation; no new environmental review. Happy Halloween http://gctru.st/ZombieMines
 
 
 
Indigenous Guatemalan women have, for the first time in history, brought charges against a Canadian mining company to a Canadian court for actions committed overseas, including rape and murder. Hudbay Minerals Inc. is facing a lawsuit from the women in the Ontario Superior Court for its violations against human rights in Guatemala. The indigenous women are seeking justice for the killings, shootings and gang rapes that occurred against them and other community members who were protesting mining activities. Hudbay has allegedly been pressuring the women to drop their case but they continue to push forward for justice. Read more: http://truth-out.org/news/item/19516-the-end-of-impunity-indigenous-guatemalans-bring-canadian-mining-company-to-court http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/the-law-page/guatemalan-plaintiffs-in-hudbay-lawsuit-allege-interference/article15058016/
 
Indigenous Guatemalan women have, for the first time in history, brought charges against a Canadian mining company to a Canadian court for actions committed ove...rseas, including rape and murder. Hudbay Minerals Inc. is facing a lawsuit from the women in the Ontario Superior Court for its violations against human rights in Guatemala. The indigenous women are seeking justice for the killings, shootings and gang rapes that occurred against them and other community members who were protesting mining activities. Hudbay has allegedly been pressuring the women to drop their case but they continue to push forward for justice. Read more: http://truth-out.org/news/item/19516-the-end-of-impunity-indigenous-guatemalans-bring-canadian-mining-company-to-court http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/the-law-page/guatemalan-plaintiffs-in-hudbay-lawsuit-allege-interference/article15058016/