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• A Green Transition or an Expansion of Extraction?

  25 de noviembre, puesto en línea por lucia
  This bulletin highlights threats involved in the so-called “energy transition,” and exposes its dirty secret of exponential expansion of mining in the global South as a consequence of the massive demand for “green” energy.

• “Forest-Smart Mining”: The World Bank’s Strategy to Greenwash Destruction from Mining in Forests

  25 de noviembre, puesto en línea por lucia
  An oxymoron describes "a statement that seems to say two opposite things." The World Bank has a lot of experience with oxymoronic initiatives.

• Women, Forests and Extractive Industries: The Case of the Mikea Indigenous Women in Madagascar

  25 de noviembre, puesto en línea por lucia
  Australian company Base Resources was allowed to destroy the Mikea Forest as long as it established an offset project, which, in turn, would impose far-reaching restrictions on communities to access their land and forests.

• Brazil: Hydro Alunorte’s Alumina Tailings Dam. A Disaster Foreshadowed

  25 de noviembre, puesto en línea por lucia — section1
  The growth of mineral extraction and metallurgical production, along with the consequent proliferation of toxic waste tailings dams, has occurred at the same rate as the emptying and bursting of tailings dams in several parts of the (...)

• India: Mining, Deforestation and Conservation Money

  25 de noviembre, puesto en línea por lucia
  The money that the Indian Government collects from companies destroying forests, such as mining companies, is being used to harass, persecute and evict people from the so-called Protected Areas, such as the Tiger Reserves, National Parks and Wild Life (...)

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