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Overview of concerns around Tia Maria, Peru
| Environmental Impacts | Potential: Air pollution, Desertification/Drought, Food insecurity (crop damage), Soil contamination, Waste overflow, Surface water pollution / Decreasing water (physico-chemical, biological) quality, Groundwater pollution or depletion, Large-scale disturbance of hydro and geological systems, Reduced ecological / hydrological connectivity, Mine tailing spills |
| Other Environmental impacts | The project is certain to affect water resources if carried out |
| Socio-economical Impacts | Visible: Militarization and increased police presence, Violations of human rights Potential: Increase in Corruption/Co-optation of different actors, Displacement, Increase in violence and crime, Lack of work security, labour absenteeism, firings, unemployment, Loss of livelihood, Land dispossession |
| Other socio-economic impacts | There have been several deaths among opponents to the project |