Voices from the Ground: How the Global Mining Industry is Profiting from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 2 Jun 2020
Standort: Ecuador
Unternehmen
Llurimagua (JV between ENAMI (51%) and Codelco (49%)) - Parent CompanyProjekte
LlurimaguaBetroffen
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Gemeinschaft: ( Number unknown - Location unknown - Sector unknown , Gender not reported )Themen
Lokale & staatliche Behörden , KorruptionArt der Quelle: News outlet
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 2 Jun 2020
Standort: Panama
Unternehmen
Minera Panamá - Subsidiary , First Quantum Minerals - Parent CompanyProjekte
Cobre Panama - UnknownBetroffen
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Arbeiter: ( Number unknown - Location unknown - Sector unknown , Gender not reported )Themen
Mitarbeiter*innen , Personal HealthArt der Quelle: NGO
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 2 Jun 2020
Standort: Mexiko
Unternehmen
Industrias Peñoles SAB de CV - Subsidiary , Grupo BAL - Parent CompanyProjekte
Tizapa - UnknownBetroffen
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Arbeiter: ( Number unknown - Location unknown - Sector unknown , Gender not reported )Themen
Covid-19 , Occupational Health & SafetyArt der Quelle: NGO
This report provides in-depth cases to exemplify the four trends highlighted in the international open letter “Global Solidarity with Communities, Indigenous Peoples and Workers at risk from Mining Pandemic Profiteers”. These trends pose an immediate threat to the health and safety of communities and organizations that have been struggling to defend public health and their environments against the destruction and devastation of mining extractivism for decades, as well as to the safety of workers in the mining sector.
The key trends:
- Mining companies are ignoring the real threats of the pandemic and continuing to operate, using any means available
- Governments around the world are taking extraordinary measures to shut down legitimate protests and promote the mining sector
- Mining companies are using the pandemic as an opportunity to hide their dirty track records and present themselves as public-minded saviours
- Mining companies and governments are using the crisis to secure regulatory change that favours the industry at the expense of people and planet...