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Poor ‘hit by mines giant’ press former Labour minister
Felipe Ustate [community leader] will seek redress for Afro-Colombians at the London annual meeting of the world’s biggest miner…BHP Billiton…Ustate heads a group that represents the farming community displaced from Manantial in northern Colombia’s La Guajira region to make way for Latin America’s largest open pit coal mine, El Cerrejon…he will tell the meeting that Billiton’s plan to divert a stretch of a river for access to coal deposits risks polluting and reducing the drinking water of 115 communities that live downstream. Ustate will be supported by a coalition of UK groups….that will hold a picket outside the meeting and challenge the company inside the AGM…