false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 , and reproduced below, is analyzed in detail the modus operandi of Canadian mining multinationals in Mexico and elsewhere the world.
In Chile, Barrick Gold , gold miner headquartered in Toronto (Canada) is primarily responsible for the Pascua Lama project, which threatens to destroy the environment and the livelihoods of populations Huasco Valley Local Area. A sad example.
Next Article "The Canadian Mining" Carlos Montemayor ( La Jornada of Mexico - July 2008)
(Part 1)
Canada is a remarkable country in modern times. For nearly eight consecutive years topped the list of nations with the highest human development index, the report said that since 1990 the unique United Nations Program for Development produced annually. This projection of development evaluation of certain variables proposed in the early 80's by Mabub Ul Haq and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. These balances are not reflected as the total wealth produced in a country, or the total movement of capital in a given area, but the benefit and development reflected in the health, life expectancy, education, housing, food and income of the inhabitants. Without these reviews are understood by economic size in Mexico has been some quantitative statements presented as the eleventh largest economy, but its reality is revealed in the human development index, which appeared in issue 54, within the group of medium human development countries and at the same level of Cuba, which holds the number 55.
Canada In artistic terms printed in a significant contribution in many fields. Besides poetry, theater, film, essays, remarkable language French in the Quebec area, all genres are promoted in a multilingual and multidisciplinary project is best exemplified in Banff International Center, where I had the opportunity to work in literary translation projects for some years.
Some research projects, scientific, technological and social development of Canadian universities are also remarkable in several fields of knowledge and policy making, particularly in the movement of multiculturalism in Canada is emerging as state policy and that part two fundamental principles: first, that migration is a feature basic and natural behavior of mankind, and second, that if humanity can be characterized by the migration of all the people at any given time, the consequence of human nature is that we are forced to live with our diversity.
Thus, "living together" does not justify a balance implies, from the perspective of the majority, but from the perspective of multiculturalism. Therefore human rights should include more and more clearly the idea that the individual is not an isolated entity, but integrated into a social, political and cultural diversity that exists prior to its appearance and that will remain after him. This gives identity and allows you to be recognized as human.
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why social integration is also highlighted, if one takes into account the legal treatment, cultural and economic as indigenous peoples, there called First Nations, First Nations. In April 1999, for example, Canada recognized the autonomous territory of the Inuit peoples, extension of one million 900 thousand square kilometers, almost that of Mexico, which is one million 956 thousand square kilometers. This autonomous territory called Nunavut Kamavat, Government of Nunavut.
The Canadian lawyer James Hopkins said in 2001 that during the territorial demarcation of Delgamuukw, Justice Lamer, head the Supreme Court of Justice of Canada, first recognized the territorial rights of indigenous people are sui generis because, among other things, the source comes from an Aboriginal legal system because they have preexisting and communally.
In this case, the judge recognized that "special bond" between Indigenous communities and the territory belongs to the distinctive culture of the Aboriginal group and claimed the right to enjoy land is limited to uses "that not jeopardize the area's ability to sustain future generations of Aboriginal peoples themselves. " In other words, the judge Rim seems to recognize that a use that interferes with employment or traditional land usufruct could break the cultural link of which arises the same territorial rights of Aboriginal people.
But perfection, both individuals and countries, is theoretical, abstract, conjectural. Contrast with the grandeur human, political, social and cultural life of Canada Canadian mining companies, such as the brutal and illegal predation inexcusable. The ecological damage, economic and social challenges in various regions of the world and Mexico is a powerful example of how a country can produce admirable corporations trample wild predators and the lucidity with which the judge determined that Lamer usufruct is limited to uses "non-threatening The area's ability to sustain future generations of Aboriginal peoples themselves. " Canadian mining companies are the forefront of current savagery against defenseless people and ecosystems of countries with corrupt governments like Mexico's vulnerable, as I shall explain in the following installments.
For our country, we are affecting three regions: San Luis Potosi, Minera San Xavier, the region saw Huizopa in Chihuahua, the Minefinders
and its subsidiary Compania Minera Dolores, and 29 municipalities in Chiapas with companies Fronteer Development Group and Radius Gold. In all cases there is a common modus operandi: the illegal appropriation of land, the complicity of federal or state authorities, overexploitation and pollution of water resources and ecological disaster by the operating system pit open and leaching.
Source: Carlos Montemayor /
Mexico's La Jornada
THE MINING CANADIAN (II) The system that Canadian mining companies in Mexico applied for mineral exploitation and processing is known as open pit leaching heaps, banned in many countries for their great capacity to pollute.
Minera San Xavier, which operates the Cerro de San Pedro in San Luis Potosi, used daily tons of explosive ammonium nitrate, diesel and triggers to bring down the hill at least 80 000 tonnes of this recyclable material will be approximately 32 thousand tons crushed already deposited on a flat-treated. Sixteen tonnes of sodium cyanide "tall man with 32 million liters of water for the sprinkler system will bathe the crushed material causing the separation and precipitation of metals contained. This is the process known as leaching.
The explosions began and eventually detonated about a mile of mountain. Then continue into the ground to produce a crater one mile in diameter and approximately 250 meters deep. After a few years, the plain has formed leaching a mountain of material saturated with cyanide of approximately 80 million tonnes. The most dangerous thing is that such a mountain of contaminated material is building up to nine kilometers from the capital city and close to other communities. In the ejido Palma de la Cruz
be another 120 million tons of material with high sulfur content that could not be leachable.
The opposition in several countries the use of cyanide in the leaching system and the exploitation of open pit is growing. In the United States in 1998, in Montana, banned the use of cyanide for mining gold and silver after the companies Canadian mining Placer Dome and Pegasus Gold Corporation caused an unprecedented environmental disaster. In 2003, California banned the mining company Glamys Gold Mining Company, until February 1993, owns 50 percent of the shares of Minera San Xavier, the exploitation of a gold mine open pit in an indigenous community and supported the Senate passed a law prohibiting any mining of gold open pit cyanide-based.
In 1995 in Guyana, the barrage Omal mine, the Canadian mining company Cambior Inc., broke, spilling 3.2 billion gallons of Essiquibo cyanide into the river water, causing the worst ecological disaster and irreparable in the history of that country. Cambior Inc. was until recently owner of a significant portion of the shares of Minera San Xavier and faces a lawsuit for $ 69 million to restore the damage perpetrated against the people of Guyana. A massive spill of 100 cubic meters of cyanide in a gold mining company in Romania, in 2000, more than polluted 400 kilometers of the river Danube
destroying all aquatic species and wildlife. Therefore, in July 2003, Romanian Prime Minister, backed by environmental groups refused to support a Canadian mining company Gabriel Resources Ltd., for the serious ecological risks that would entail. Inside Canadian organizations have raised awareness about the devastating social and environmental consequences for other countries have had Canadian mining companies. In June 2004, the parliamentary standing committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade presented a report which stated that Canada still had no laws to ensure that the activities of mining companies in developing countries be content with standards necessary human rights, much less to ensure environmental responsibility.
The June 23, 2004, the ninth of the Ninth Circuit appellate court in administrative matters resolved the DA under 65/2004-873 and stated clearly that the Federal Tribunal of Fiscal and Administrative Justice had to cancel in final form the land use permit and operating in a letter dated February 26, 1999 was awarded the National Ecology Institute, a decentralized body of SEMARNAP, now SEMARNAT, Minera San Xavier. The court determined that such approval had been granted in contravention of, first, the provisions federal environmental law, and second, the state administrative decree approving the management plan San Luis Potosi and its suburbs. After resolution of the appellate court, any action at all levels of government involved a contempt action.
This resolution did not stop the company and subsequent federal and state support began its territorial expansion. City bought land and abandoned farms in the county seat of Cerro de San Pedro through contracts outside the law or by signing a lease of ejido land in Cerro de San Pedro with false ejidatarios which was overridden by both the agrarian court decisionmaking as the second appellate court of the Ninth Circuit.
this fake contract with roads closed during 400 years were used by the residents of communities Slipper, Cuesta de Campa, Portezuelo and Cerro de San Pedro, without being processed and obtained the necessary permits . Also invaded land owned by the nation, belonging to the old railway Rioverde Potosi, San Pedro branch. Installed, also cyclone fence several kilometers in length that engulfed the village on the north side, east and west, preventing step by residents, visitors and ejidatarios to areas that remain truly local.
On 2 June this year, the district court XI administrative matters in the Federal District issued its resolution under 1065/2007, which was brought against the fiscal court and administrative respect to invalidity for a new license to the company itself Semarnat received in April 2006. The district court ruled that it must again decide the appeal of complaint and at the end of the resolution states that the protections should be considered direct
DA 65/2004 and 24/2005, which established that even conditionally authorization could be given to the company.
Despite this, mining continues to devastate the area of \u200b\u200bCerro de San Pedro.
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