NO Conta mina cionDE The Agua Rica project is unviable, not only because of the pollution it would cause to the water, soil, and air in the region, but also because of the risk of landslides on the town and the direct attack on the glacial and periglacial environment of the Nevado del Aconquija. ARGENTINA //
BRAZIL// bauxite COMMUNITY // Oriximiná, Terra Santa, and Faro in Pará state.
COLOMBIA // coalTabaco, La Guajira Department. MINE // Cerrejón, founded in 1976 is Latin America's largest coal mine.
Page 6IMPACTS cobalt. AIR AND LAND POLLUTION // Contamination of agricultural land, respiratory diseases.
PERU // copperCOMMUNITY // Puerto Huarmey, a fishing town in the Ancash region. MINE // Antamina, located in the Andean mountains, is one of the world's largest copper/zinc mines a joint venture of BHP, Glencore, Teck Resources and Mitsubishi Corporation.
GLOBAL RESISTAAs Glencore's mining frontier expands under the banner of the energy transition and the search for critical minerals, the communities make evident that this comes at a profound cost-undermining people's health and cultures and driving the destruction of ecosystems in extraction zones. This is not a solution for the ecological crises. 60°
NCE TO GLENCOREGlencore shrouds its operations in secrecy, and for good reason: the details painstakingly brought to light by community activists and environmental justice campaigners paint a damning picture. From the bribery scandals in the DRC, the murder of anti-mining activists in the Philippines, the poisoning of water supplies in Peru, and the abuse of workers in its mines the world over, we can see that whilst Glencore's operations might be diverse, the common thread that ties them together is an exploitative business model based on crossing ethical lines in the pursuit of ever greater profits. SALON