Mining video notes geog

Largest mine in south america but it makes a lot of money but they are plluting the water and vilating
the communities rights

Near community homes, dirt is dug up and creates problems for the people who live there

They get sick from the mines

Human rights violations

Largest gold mine

Cyanide is used and poisons the soil

The farmers are near the cyanide

The mine causes problem – dust in dry seasons, social situation people fighting, water contaminated

Water is green and yellow and animals could die immediately is they drink it

95% of the people are opposed to mining because it interferes with the livestock

Companies don’t care about the livestock or people they just want gold

The mine is the biggest source of social conflict and the farmers are in need of support

Conflict between mining company and people who oppose – murdered woman’s brother and people are
pressured to sell their land to the mining company

People who can read are able to stand up to the mining company – illiterate people get taken advantage
of – there are assassins who killed the man who refused to give up his land to the mining company

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Kamahaca

Public prosecutor – herder derfends his land, Edmundo, the police said admunndo resisted,

Edmunodos fam is still there and don’t want to sell their land to the mining company

The people aren’t being taken into account

The proteginists are the farmers

Protest march by farmers, the mining company is intimidating the farmers and the farmers want an
explanation by the mining company

All the gold ahs made the region poor the gold is sent abroad and the peruvian government does not
redistribute wealth properly

The farmers are just defending their legal rights to land and human rights
The water is the farmers’ most important resource and is contaminated

Media war –

Human rights groups want the mining company to include them in their decisions

There are loseers from the gold rush and they had to sell their houses to the company and they want
compensation and they habe a list of the land and animals the family lost and if they don’t work they
don’t have anything

Human rights group takes action, mining company tried to cooperate them to shut them up and then
the mining company offered them to be included in the decision making, then the group sends out
stalkers on the human rights group and they had been spying on them and will go to great lengths to
intimidate so the company gets the contracts - and other members fo environment groups as well as
the church.

Mine companies m]pay minimum taxes to the peru government

The mine doesn’t respect basic labour laws and some people are fired illegally and they have mercury in
their blood