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OLCA 1st tribunal organized mining frontier in Chile

For ethical decision transnational mining:

First organized OLCA Frontier Mining Tribunal in Chile

as Pascua Lama Project in the Latin American is a paradigm for a new form of exploitation of driven by transnational mineral threatening local communities, the environment and the internal security of countries.

addition to Chile and Argentina, will be on communities in Mexico, El Salvador, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia. To pass sentence on the mining frontier, the panel of judges will consist of great personalities.

The Court Ethical Frontier Mining seeks sentencing ethically extractive multinationals for their actions against communities and the environment. Flagship enterprises such as Pascua Lama in Chile-Argentina border nortino, which has caused great social rejection by their tremendous implications, cases will be used as evidence for a sentence to a model that has been catching spreading on the continent in recent years.

The Mining removes border restrictions in the border areas of countries, creating bi-national territories under the administration of transnational corporations. This happens, for example, the Pascua Lama project to Barrick Gold and El Pachón Xstrata on the border between Chile and Argentina in the Andes, and even today there are a number of questions that public services have not able to respond.

Will the evidence of conflicts of mining projects in the border of Guatemala and El Salvador (White Mountain Gold Mine Corp.), Brazil and Bolivia (El Mutún in the Pantanal), Peru Ecuador (Cordillera del Condor), and Chile with Argentina and the flagship project Pascua Lama and the Panchón.

To achieve this public condemnation and ethics from American civil society will be a panel of judges made up of personalities linked to the defense of human rights, the world association, pastoral work and environmental protection, and rights of indigenous peoples.

The Court will be held Sept. 30 at the hall of the headquarters of the United Workers Central (CUT, Alameda 1346) from 9 in the morning. Admission is free. More information www.olca.cl.

Sanjuanina Assembly Convened Pollution and the Looting, Argentina, Acción Ecológica, Ecuador; CooperAcción, Peru, Bolivarian Forum on Environment and Development, Fobomade; Latin American Observatory for Environmental Conflicts, OLCA; and Observatory of Mining Conflicts in Latin America, OCMAL.

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