publish one month's ruling made the First Court of Ethics to the Mining Frontier: Sanctioned
proceed unethical transnational mining companies and authorities of
The Court of Ethics to Mining border is an open instance of the Latin American Observatory for Environmental Conflicts OLCA in partnership with Acción Ecológica - Ecuador., Bolivian Forum for Environment and Development Fobomade - Bolivia, San Johannine Assembly Pollution - CooperAcción Argentina and Peru, to visualize this new form of mining that threatens to devastate parts of Latin America strategically untouchable by It called on communities in over 10 countries and personalities respected for their ethical coherence in different continental areas of social life.
September 30 took place in Santiago de Chile First Court Ethics Mining Frontier, and a month of the activity, the Panel of Judges issued "in agreement" a comprehensive failure 5 page sanction the actions of the companies involved in mining the border as undermining the basic principles of ethics and the common good.
Among other things, the ruling of the Panel of Judges states that companies operating under the delusion, exhibited an attitude of plunder for themselves, contemptuous of the dialogue and impose their will with the complicity of the authorities.
The Panel of Judges was composed by Juan Luis Ysern, bishop emeritus of Ancud, Elsie Monge, executive director of the Ecumenical Commission of Human Rights in Ecuador CEDHU, Cristian Cuevas, president of the Confederation of Workers Copper and Secretary of Collective Bargaining, Conflict and Solidarity of the CUT, Lawrence Wheeler, constituent and Senator of the Republic on behalf of the Indigenous Peoples of Colombia, and Karyn Keenan Halifax Initiative Coalition of Canada.
cases that were offered for consideration by this Court were Chicomuselo barite mine in the Canadian Black Fire on the border between Mexico and Guatemala, the Cerro Blanco gold of American Glamis Gold, on the border of Salvador Guatemala, the mining projects of the Cordillera del Condor, represented by Aphrodite and White River on the border of Peru and Ecuador, the aspirations of the Mutún iron in the Pantanal on the border of Brazil and Bolivia and the emblematic Pascua Lama, Chile on the border of Argentina, led by Canada's Barrick Gold. All cases committed indigenous communities were not adequately consulted, they fear above all by water and the ecosystem balance of their habitat. The areas concerned are places that had remained unscathed by the boundary condition of the territories, and they live species and cultures that afford this type of mining for transit irretrievably to extinction. Testimonies realized how all these projects had benefited from the complicity of the authorities, which in some cases even to enact laws, signing treaties and border agreements disregard for viable ventures.
For Lucio Cuenca, director of the Latin American Observatory for Environmental Conflicts (OLCA), Judgement of the Court though not binding on States, is significant as it realizes that the values \u200b\u200bthat operate in his speech mining are responsible, bring development, jobs and progress, are finally, contrary to the principles that sustain the life of the communities they are imposed. "Relieve this form of mining, socialize all borders of our continent are now weakened and under the domination of the profit motive of transnational and warning of the fate of areas designated as biosphere reserves, national parks, habitats for people not connected, etc, being disaffected without the knowledge or participation whatsoever of the citizens, is clearly an inescapable moral and social duty "ends Basin.
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