Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 19:01:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Alice McCombs <amccombs@igc.apc.org>

Contents

1. Drillbits & Tailings, January 7, 1998; Volume 3, Number 1

From: Shanna Langdon <shanna@moles.org>

Drillbits & Tailings
Volume 3 , Number 1
January 7, 1998

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"The big money is in countries whose names end in "ia" and "stan." "
-- places other people don't want to go to." A senior executive of a US oil
engineering group active in Algeria. (See "OIL COMPANIES IN ALGERIA ISOLATE
THEMSELVES FROM THE KILLING").
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Contents

NEWS
- OXY OIL DRILLING ON CALIFORNIAN INDIGENOUS LANDS OPPOSED
- ACTIVISTS TARGET SHAREHOLDERS IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST WMC
- OIL COMPANIES IN ALGERIA ISOLATE THEMSELVES FROM THE KILLING
- GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY SUBSIDISES WORLD'S BIGGEST COPPER MINE
HOTSPOTS (Alaska, Borneo, Colombia, Ecuador, Nigeria, Norway, Philadelphia,
Spain, Sri Lanka, Turkmenistan)
DIARY: 10 Worst Stocks of 1997
VITAL STATISTICS: Californian Gold
WHAT YOU CAN DO: Protest the excavation of native burial sites
COMMUNITY PIPELINE

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OXY OIL DRILLING ON CALIFORNIAN INDIGENOUS LANDS OPPOSED

Occidental Petroleum is planning to drill for oil under traditional burial
sites for the Yokut indigenous peoples of southern California despite
community opposition and potential lawsuits.

At stake are at least 100 ancient sites in the Buena Vista lake region
where Yokut peoples once lived. Also threatened are endangered species like
the leopard lizard, the kit fox and giant kangaroo rats. This land is
currently controlled by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) as
part of the Elk Hills Petroleum Reserve. Occidental Petroleum has agreed to
buy the 47,000 acre property next month for US$3.7 billion where it plans
to expand the current 59,000 barrels a day production field.

Last week DOE officials notified Delia  Dominiguez, chairperson of the
Tinoqui-Chalola council of Kitanemuk and Yowlumne Tejon Indian tribe, that
they would excavate 20 "prehistoric archaelogical sites" in order to
prepare the land for privatization.

Dominiguez told DOE officials that digging on the land would violate the
1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Lawyers from
Californian Indian Legal Services have also requested the DOE to stop
digging until an agreement has been reached with the tribes.

"I cannot and will not approve the desecration or removal of villages,
human remains or burials. The United States government must set aside its
continued involvement in profiting from Indian ancestral homelands. Have
you considered the permanent psychological impact the continued destruction
of our homelands has?" she wrote in letters to the DOE.

Meanwhile The Arizona-based Southwest Center for Biological Diversity has
informed the DOE that it intends to sue the government next month for
violating the Endangered Species Act. Dominguez says that the DOE has
decided to hasten the sale in order to avoid the legal challenge. Also
worrying government officials is the fact that the Congressional
authorization to privatize the land will expire next month.

Local historians like the Kern Archaelogical Society have backed the claims
of the indigenous peoples. Arco, another oil company in the area, says it
has also respected indigenous requests to respect sacred sites.

Dominiguez's family signed a treaty for the land with the United States
government agents in the 1850s, one of 18 treaties signed with tribes
across the state during the gold rush, but Congress refused to ratify the
treaties. Instead, the federal government decided to turn part of their
territory into a reservation at Tejon Pass, the first scheme to sequestrate
native Americans, that was scrapped later in the century after many people
either starved to death or abandoned the reservations.

Occidental Petroleum, which is headquartered in nearby city of Bakersfield,
is also involved in drilling on indigenous lands in Colombia, Ecuador and
Peru despite community opposition to the environmental destruction. In
Colombia the native U'wa peoples have threatened to commit mass suicide
rather than allow the drilling to proceed.

SOURCES: pers. comm. with Delia Dominiguez, January 7, 1998; pers. comm.
with U'wa Defense Project, January 5, 1998; Letters from Ms Dominiguez to
Anthony Como, DOE dated September 3 and December 8, 1997; from Californian
Indian Legal Services to Anthony Como, DOE dated December 23, 1997
respectively. Original notices and replies from Anthony Como to Delia
Dominiguez dated July 18 and November 25, 1997; "US sets dig at Elk Hills"
by Bob Saberhaten, The Bakersfield Californian, December 8, 1997; "Suit
Threatens Elk Hills Sale" by Marc Benjamin, The Bakersfield Californian,
December 19, 1997.

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ACTIVISTS TARGET SHAREHOLDERS IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST WMC

Australian activists are stepping up their campaign against Western Mining
Corporation (WMC). They want to pressure the company into addressing
persistent opposition by indigenous communities to its exploration
activities in the southern Philippines. Last month, Sydney-basedcampaigners
launched a drive to tell shareholders about how the company's
exploration there was uprooting the native B'laan people who have long
lived on the land.

Led by the Sydney-based Indigenus Pilipinas group, activists say that they
will be mailing details about WMC's operations in the Philippines to
shareholders to encourage them to raise their concerns with the
corporation. Should they not get any positive response from WMC, the group
urged shareholders to threaten to divest their shares.

James Goodman of Indigenus Pilipinas said the shareholder campaign will
focus on "100 shareholders who have some reputation to defend and would be
sensitive to our concerns. We are asking them to raise the issue with
management, in addition to giving activists a proxy vote to attend the
AGM." At the same time, campaigners are offering shareholders alternatives
for their money, like contributing to social development organizations in
the Philippines.

The second stage of the campaign involves raising awareness among
university students. "We want to target universities because they claim to
have a concern for human rights," Goodman said.

The Mineral Policy Institute (MPI) of Sydney is currently working on a
corporate profile of WMC which will contribute to the campaign. According
to Sarah Wright of MPI, the report aims to ensure that "communities around
the world are aware and understand the potential consequences of mining in
their lands."

A WMC spokesperson said the company welcomes the shareholder campaign:
"It=92s a wonderful thing that all groups have the opportunity to have
freedom of expression," spokesperson Gavan Collery said. "If they want to
take (their concerns) to shareholders, they are more than welcome." But he
said accusations that WMC trampled on the rights of indigenous communities
in mineral-rich lands in the Philippines have "no substance and we reject
them".

But things may be changing somewhat in the Philippines. In November, a new
law took effect that gives tribal groups the right to negotiate conditions
for the exploration of ancestral land and requires mining firms to get
their "free and informed consent" to mining activities. Mining firms called
the law a step backwards, but activists hailed its passage.

WMC says that it has come to an agreement with the B'laan. Said Collery:
"We could not hope to proceed with such a development in this area of the
Philippines or anywhere without community acceptance. We recognize we must
have genuine partnership with the community - and that's where the
community shares the benefits."

Still, Judy Pasimio of the Manila-based Legal Resources Center says that
while "the new law provides an opening, it is still about negotiation - and
the question is are local communities empowered enough to negotiate with
big multinational firms?" She says it has to be asked how consent is
obtained and given. And "free and informed consent" should include the
option to say "no."

SOURCE: "Activists Pressure Mining Firm via Shareholders" by Sumegha
Agarwal, InterPress Service, January 5, 1998; pers. comm. with the Mineral
Policy Institute, December 3, 1997.

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OIL COMPANIES IN ALGERIA ISOLATE THEMSELVES FROM THE KILLING

In the desert fields of southern Algeria, home to the country's oil and gas
wealth, foreign oil companies have been working in exclusion zones,
sheltered from the heavily populated and bloody north.  In co-operation
with Sonatrach, the state oil and gas company, they have helped keep
uninterrupted the supply of oil and gas to Europe.

But as Algeria's near-six-year conflict attracts more international
attention, that isolation risks being disturbed. With the increase in
violence (blamed by the government on Islamic extremists), confusion over
why the killings occur, and lack of independent information, comes
criticism of the army-backed government's human rights record and appeals
for investigations into the massacres. These calls rose in volume after the
December 30th killing of up to 400 civilians and the spread of violence
from areas south of Algiers to western regions. Developments are
compounding foreign company concerns over employee safety and the public
relations dilemma about working with a controversial regime.

According to the Financial Times, some oil companies have already made
contact with human rights organizations to discuss Algeria. Many maintain
an official wall of silence on the issue. "It's a very complicated
situation there and too delicate for us to comment on, even off the
record," said one European oil company. Another, more forthcoming, said:
"It is a concern. There is a feeling opposition groups might be able to
capitalize on human rights concerns."

Human rights and social issues have emerged in recent years as one of the
trickiest problems facing international oil companies. The issue was
highlighted in 1995 when Royal Dutch/Shell came under attack for failing to
persuade Nigeria=92s military rulers not to execute Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight
other activists. In the past year, British Petroleum has been accused of
supporting death squads in Casanare in eastern Colombia, a charge it and
the Bogot=E1 government vehemently deny.

Algeria, which derives virtually all its foreign exchange revenues from oil
and gas exports, is becoming an increasingly important supplier of natural
gas to southern Europe. The country, which has the world's eighth largest
gas reserves and has benefited from a string of oil discoveries, figures
high in the strategy of several big petroleum groups.

The army's failure to intervene when massacres occur raises suspicions of
complicity, voiced in a November Amnesty International report. The
government strongly denies the allegations, blaming the army's attitude on
inefficiency and previous attempts by Islamic extremists to trap security
forces. Some oil executives admit they are uncertain about what goes on in
Algeria.

The ring of steel around the oil fields makes investors feel secure, but
deprives the oil companies of one of their main tools in countering
accusations that they countenance human rights abuses or social neglect.
While difficult social conditions, housing shortages and rampant
unemployment plague the north, there is no large population in the south to
benefit directly from foreign oil company largesse in the form of community
development projects and cash grants.

Moreover, foreign companies hire foreign security experts to liaise with
local army and gendarmerie officers. At least some companies provide the
shelter and food for army units stationed around individual fields and
company camps in Hassi Messaoud.

For some companies, controversial countries have proved particularly
profitable. "The big money is in countries whose names end in "ia" and
"stan". . . places other people don=92t want to go to," said a senior
executive of a US oil engineering group active in Algeria.

But even so, his company is wary of setting up a permanent presence there.
"We only get corporate approval for one visit to Algiers a year, and that
only under extraordinary security."

SOURCE: "Algeria: Killings Fuel Oil Groups' Concern" by Roula Khalaf and
Robert Corzine, Financial Times, January 6, 1997.

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GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY SUBSIDISES WORLD'S BIGGEST COPPER MINE

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) - a joint project of the World Bank,
the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations
Environment Program (UNEP) - is subsidizing Codelco, the world=92s largest
copper producer.

Compania del Cobre de Chile, a Chilean state company known by the acronym
Codelco, is the largest single producer of copper in the world which
operates the largest subterranean mine in the world, El Teniente, and the
world=92s largest open-pit mine, Chuquicamata.

The GEF was created in 1990 as a vehicle to pay for the implementation of
environmental agreements like the Biodiversity and Climate Change
convention. In the last eight years it has often served to "greenwash"
environmentally destructive projects from coal mining in Singrauli, India,
to dams in Laos. The latest GEF scheme is to give a US$1.7 million grant to
Codelco to replace relatively inefficient motors with high-efficiency ones
at Codelco=92s huge El Teniente copper refinery near Rancagua, about 100
kilometers south of Santiago. The company hopes that this will hopes to
slash its electricity bill, cut production costs and indirectly reduce the
amount of carbon dioxide it spews into the atmosphere every year.

Carlos del Castillo, UNDP representative, told journalists that the deal
between his agency and Codelco=92s El Teniente unit "will serve as an example
for the rest of Chilean industry." Codelco spent US$200 million last year
to buy a quarter of the electricity in Chile. More efficient motors at
Codelco would slash production costs by 2-6 percent, say experts.

The World Bank's International Finance Corporation recently played a major
role in building up Chile's electricity industry when it made a loan to
develop the Pangue dam on the Bio-Bio river in Chile which has had a major
impact on the traditional territories of the Mapuche indigenous peoples.

Meanwhile Codelco is looking into destroying a vast area of fragile
rainforest in Junin, northern Ecuador, where it has a joint venture to mine
for copper on the slopes of the Toisan Cordillera which forms a part of the
natural limits of the Cotacachi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve. The exploration
would damage over 2,100 square kilometers of tropical forests which are
home to over 20 species of endangered animals.

SOURCES: "Codelco Update Of Machinery Is Also Boost To Environment" By

Larry Luxner, Miami Herald, January 3, 1998; "Green Groups Blast Chile's
Mining Plans In Ecuador", Reuters, August 27, 1997; pers. comm. with Aleta
Brown, International Rivers Network; DATE TK; "New Environment Fund To
Admit Activists To Meetings" by Pratap Chatterjee, Inter Press Service,
July 15 1994.

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DIARY: 10 Worst Stocks of 1997

(M) indicates a multinational mining company

Company                                         change

Echo Bay Mines  (M)                             -64.2%

Cabletron Systems                               -58.3%

3Com                                            -55.5%

Tupperware                                      -50.1%

Freeport  McMoRan  Copper & Gold  (M)           -49.6%

Silicon Graphics                                -49.0%

Seagate Tech                                    -47.5%

Inco  (M)                                       -45.7%

Placer Dome  (M)                                -44.8%

Barrick Gold  (M)                               -38.3%

SOURCE: USA Today, December  22, 1997, Final Edition

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ALASKA, USA: Arco Alaska announced on January 7th that it did not find
enough oil from its Warthog well to warrant development of the prospect in
Camden Bay, just offshore from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
The company has no immediate plans to continue exploration in the area. The
company plugged the well November 30th, 1997 and has been evaluating
results of the drilling since then. Warthog was the latest in a ring of
wells drilled around the wildlife refuge. ANWR is thought to hold the
hottest prospects for a big oil find but is off-limits to drilling. The
Warthog project sparked a protest in August by Greenpeace, which briefly
delayed the movement of the huge rig used to drill the well (Associated
Press, January 7, 1998).

BORNEO: A Malaysian unit of Royal Dutch/Shell had to shut down a plant on
Borneo island after an explosion injured 12 people and set tanks on fire on
December 25th. The explosion occurred at Shell MDS Malaysia Sdn Bhd=92s
400,000-tonne middle distillate synthesis plant in Bintulu town in Sarawak
state. Four Shell employees were injured and a local hospital reported 8
members of the public were treated for injuries. The plant is a joint
venture between Shell Gas BV, Petroliam Nasional Bhd Petronas, Mitsubishi
and the Sarawak state government (Reuters, December 26, 1997).

COLOMBIA: Less than a week into the new year, leftist rebels dynamited the
nation's main oil pipeline, forcing the suspension of pumping, according to
the state-owned oil company Ecopetrol. Rebels blew up a portion of the Cano
Limon-Covenas pipeline near Arauqita, 230 miles northeast of the capital,
Bogota, on January 4th. Ecopetrol said it hoped to resume pumping the
following day. The National Liberation Army (ELN), the nation's second
largest guerrilla band, was believed responsible. It was the first dynamite
attack on the pipeline this year. Rebels sabotaged the oil duct, which
normally transports 175,000 barrels of oil a day to the Caribbean coast, 65
times last year. The ELN often targets the oil industry, claiming foreign
companies are unfairly exploiting the nation=92s natural resources
(Associated Press, January 5, 1998).

ECUADOR: The British mining giant RTZ has decided to pull out of Ecuador by
the beginning of 1998. According to an official from the Ministry of Energy
and Mines, the pull-out was due to the unattractive investment climate in
Ecuador, the fall in the price of gold, the opposition from communities
where the company operated and pressure from environmentalists in Ecuador.
RTZ started operating in Ecuador 10 years ago, obtaining concessions
throughout the country. The company has faced continuous opposition from
local communities and environmentalists within the country due to the
negative social, cultural and environmental impacts of its operations
(pers. comm. Accion Ecologica, December 29, 1997; Diario El Hoy, December
5, 1997).

NIGERIA: In an attempt to stop the January 4th Ogoni Day ceremonies in
Ogoni, the military authorities in Nigeria embarked on military raids,
arrests and detentions of people there. Over the Ogoni Day weekend, 20
Ogoni men and women were arrested, and many more were fired upon, some as
they attended Church services to commemorate Ogoni Day. The whereabouts of
those arrested, including Batom Mittee, the brother of Acting MOSOP
president Ledum Mittee is still unknown. (MOSOP Press Release, January 5,
1998; Reuters, January 3, 1998).

NORWAY: Norwegian Oil and Energy Minister Marit Arnstad suggested on
December 26th that Norway should place between 5 and 10% of its vast oil
wealth in environmental investments. Norway will start investing about 40%
of its Petroleum Fund, built up from cash from offshore oil and gas income,
in foreign equities from January 1st. Until now, the money has gone into
low-risk government bonds. The Petroleum Fund, intended to save cash for
when Norway's oil wells run dry in the next century, is expected to total
about US$27 billion by the end of 1998. Norway is the biggest oil exporter
after Saudi Arabia. Arnstad said that environmentalists had to choose
between bolstering hydro power, currently the source of all Norway's
electricity, or go over to using fossil fuels. The government opposes plans
approved by parliament to build 2 gas-fired power plants in Norway
(Reuters, December 29, 1998).

PHILADELPHIA, USA: Sun Oil Company has come to a good neighbor/worker
agreement in Philadelphia after 30 months of negotiations. As part of the
settlement agreement Sun will invest US$5 million in improvements at the
Philadelphia Refinery  to further reduce air emissions. The most important
is the Emergency Notification System to warn residents in the event of an
accident, which is something the residents have been demanding for the last
5 years. The settlement includes a total of US$500,000 in penalties. Of
this amount, US$150,000 will go to the City for fines, US$200,000 will be
used in funding the Emergency Notification System and the remaining
US$150,000 will be available for other community environmental projects to
benefit the South and Southwest communities. Since the initiation of the
lawsuit, Sun has reported a 57% reduction in air emissions (Statement by
Joanne Rossi, President of the Community/Labor Refinery Tracking Committee
(C/LRTC) at a Press Conference, December 30, 1997).

SPAIN: About 10,000 Spanish coal miners began a 3-day strike on January 2nd
to stop the government from bowing to European Union (EU) demands for
production cuts. The miners want the government to stick to production,
productivity and workforce levels agreed to in a 1998-2001 viability plan.
The EU Energy Commission wants Spain to trim coal production by 600,000
tonnes as part of a broader drive to reduce state subsidization of the
industry and make it more responsive to competition (Financial Times,
January 2, 1998).

SRI LANKA: Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) workers on January 5th used
pumps and bowsers to clear tonnes of crude oil that had leaked from an
abandoned pipeline at Sri Lanka=92s Colombo port, officials said. Dhanapala
Weerasekera, chair of the Marine Pollution Prevention Authority (MPPA),
said that CPC officials had confirmed that there was between 20 and 50
tonnes of oil in the pipeline. The pipeline, abandoned nearly 5 years ago
by CPC, was affecting activities at the Colombo port after some ships
declined to berth at the Prince Vijaya Quay for fear that the oil was a
fire hazard. Weerasekera said the oil had soaked a large land area at the
port, filled a drain that was 2 feet deep, and flowed into the port=92s
waters, spreading for more than half an acre. The oil leak was detected 2
years ago, but it was sealed until recent heavy rains caused the pipeline
to leak again. The port is South Asia=92s transshipment hub (Reuters, January
6, 1998).

TURKMENISTAN: The inauguration on December 29th of a Turkmen-Iranian
pipeline by presidents Saparmurad Niyazov and Muhammad Khatami to carry
Turkmenistan's natural gas to north-east Iran was a geopolitical as well as
an economic achievement for both sides. The deal underlines the rising
economic importance of Iran to Central Asian states and the continuing
failure of Washington to isolate Tehran diplomatically and economically.
The 200 kilometer pipeline from Korpeje, Turkmenistan, to Kord- Kui, Iran,
to carry two billion cubic meters annually, is the first phase of a project
that will ultimately take Turkmen gas to Turkey and destinations further
west without touching any part of Russia. Russia is the traditional "Big
Brother" of the Central Asian republics from whom Niyazov is trying
gradually to distance himself (Inter Press Service, December 30, 1997).

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VITAL STATISTICS: Californian Gold

Gold, Greed and Genocide: Unmaking the Myth of the '49ers, a new report on
the impact of 150 years of gold mining in California will be published by
Project Underground next week, in memory of the peoples who have died and
the peoples that are being slowly killed today as a result of the gold
mining industry. The following numbers are excerpted from the report:
Indigenous impact:
(Prices in US Dollars)

Estimated Californian native population before 1848 gold rush: 150,000
Estimated Californian native population in 1870: 31,000
Estimated Californian native population killed by new diseases brought by
gold rush settlers: 60%
Price for native American severed head in Shasta in 1855: $5
Price for native American scalp in Honey Lake in 1863:  25 cents
California state government reimbursement for scalping missions in 1851:
$1,000,000
Estimated number of native American children sold: 4,000
Price for young boys : up to $60
Price for young girls : up to $200
Estimated value of gold dug up during gold rush in California: $445 million
Estimated value of silver dug up at Comstock in Nevada: $350 million

Environmental impact:

Estimated quantity of earth dug up in gold rush: 12 billion tons
Estimated farmland impacted by mining in 1880: 40,000 acres destroyed,
270,000 acres severely damaged.
Estimated quantity of mercury dug up for gold rush: 103,000 tons
Estimated quantity of mercury lost in local rivers: 7,600 tons

Amount of mercury required to violate federal health standards: One gramme
in typical mid-western lake.
Average quantity of mercury washed into San Francisco bay per day: 200
grammes (dry season)
Amount of mercury washed into San Francisco bay on January 7, 1997: 32
kilogrammes (after unusually heavy flood)
Amount of mercury dumped in Clear Lake, California: 100 tonnes
Year native communities complained of mercury contamination in Clear Lake,
California: 1979
Year mercury contamination cleaned up in Clear Lake, California: 1997
Gold production at McLaughlin mine owned by Homestake in Clear Lake,
California: 186,000 ounces in 1996, sold at average prices of $362 an ounce
or $67.332 million dollars
pH of waste water at abandoned Iron Mountain mine near Redding, California:
-3
Amount of times Iron Mountain drainage is more acidic than battery acid:
10,000 times
Percentage of all toxic metals washed into US waters at Iron mountain mine:
25%
Years Iron Mountain will remain toxic: 3,000 years
Profits made by Mountain Copper company at Iron Mountain in 1898: $1million
a day
Estimated clean-up cost in 1997: $9 billion

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WHAT YOU CAN DO:  Save Elk Hills

Write to Anthony Como, United States Department of Energy, to  protest the
DOE=92s plans to excavate the traditional burial sites of the Yokut peoples
in preparation for drilling for oil by Occidental Petroleum.

Send letters to:
Anthony Como
1000 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington DC 20585-0350, USA
Fax: +1 202 287 5736
Email: anthony.como@hq.doe.gov

And also to:
Congressman George Miller of California, who has been supportive of native
Californian issues in the past.
2205 Rayburn, Washington DC 20515, USA
Fax: +1 202 225 5609

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COMMUNITY PIPELINE:

Contacts:
Indigenus Pilipinas
Old Childrens Court
66 Albion Street, Surry Hills
NSW 2010, Australia
Tel: +61 2 92814360

Email: indigenus@pactok.net.

Mineral Policy Institute
P.O. Box 21,
Bondi Junction, NSW 2022
Australia
Tel: +61 2 93875540
Fax: +61 2 93861497
Email: mpi@mpi.hydra.org.au
http://www.hydra.org.au/mpi/

Legal Resources Center
3/f PUNO Bldg. # 47 Kalayaan Ave., Diliman
Quezon City, Philippines
Tel: +632 9279670
Fax: + 632 9207172
email: lrc@phil.gn.apc.org
http://www.sequel.net/~lrcksk
-
National Oil Refinery ACTION! Network (NORAN)
500 Howard Street, #506
San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel: 415 243-8373
Email: cbesf@igc.apc.org=20
http://www.igc.apc.org/cbesf/

Resources: Taking Responsibility: Metal mining, people and the environment

This newly published book from Friends of the Earth Netherlands looks at
mining around the world in today's global context. It looks at the impacts
of mining on the environment, analyses recent trends in the mining sector
and finally proposes principles for more responsible mining. It is
thoroughly researched, and includes case studies with photographs from
Peru, Guinea, Russia, and Indonesia among others.
It is available from Friends of the Earth Netherlands.

Damrak 26
PO Box 19199
1000 GD Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel: +31 20 622 1366
Fax: +31 20 627 5287
Email: info@milieudefensie.nl
http://www.milieudefensie.nl

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Drillbits & Tailings
Volume 3 , Number 1
January 1, 1998

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