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1. Drillbits & Tailings, March 7, 1998; Volume 3, Number 5

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1. Drillbits & Tailings, March 7, 1998; Volume 3, Number 5

>Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 14:35:21 -0800
>From: Shanna Langdon <shanna@moles.org>
>
>Drillbits & Tailings
>Volume 3 , Number
>March 7, 1998
>
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>"Before Rio Tinto came, traditional mining [panning] was the main and most
>important source of income. Now the people are not allowed to do their
>traditional mining there, and hundreds of families have been evicted from
>their land." Pius Nyompe, a Dayak landowner. (See "DAYAKS RALLY SUPPORT IN
>AUSTRALIA").
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>
>Contents
>
>NEWS
>- BATTLES BEGIN FOR US COAL MINERS HEALTH
>- U'WA DEMAND RECOGNITION AND RIGHTS AS PRECONDITIONS TO DIALOGUE
>- AFRICAN COMMUNITIES PAY HIGH PRICE FOR MINING
>- DAYAKS RALLY SUPPORT IN AUSTRALIA
>HOTSPOTS (Ecuador, New Orleans, Peru/Argentina, Puerto Rico, Thailand,
>United Arab Emirates)
>DIARY: De Beers: Hopes that small print will give an edge
>VITAL STATISTICS: Layoffs in the mining industry
>WHAT YOU CAN DO: Guardians of the Rural Environment are calling for letters
>of protest
>COMMUNITY PIPELINE
>
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>
>BATTLES BEGIN FOR US COAL MINERS HEALTH
>
>Two lawsuits and a change in the law are stirring up a battle for the
>health of coal miners in the United States just as their counterparts in
>the United Kingdom are beginning to win compensation for their rights.
>
>Last week J. Davitt McAteer, assistant US labor secretary for mine safety
>and health, appealed to the federal government for money to hire 40 new
>inspectors to end the legacy of respiratory illnesses caused by breathing
>coal mine dust. Known as "black lung disease" this illness costs the
>federal government US$1 billion a year in health benefits and is blamed, in
>part, for the deaths of more than 1,000 coal miners a year.
>
>Experts believed black lung disease would be eliminated after limits on
>dust were imposed by federal law in 1970. The incidence of disease has
>declined, from an estimated 11 percent of coal miners in 1970 to 2.9
>percent in 1995, the agency said.
>
>Mine operators must test their mines for coal dust at least twice a month
>but McAteer said those samples do not always reflect normal working
>conditions. He added: "We don’t have to have this disease in this country.
>People should not have to be concerned that their job is killing them
>slowly, one day at a time."
>
>The mine-safety agency already has money for 11 workers to start
>government-run inspections in some Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia
>mines this year, who will be allowed to cite mine operators based on a
>single sample accumulated over a full work shift, instead of requiring an
>average of five full-shift samples.
>
>Meanwhile the US Supreme Court is listening to arguments on a lawsuit
>involving a Massachusetts company named Eastern Enterprises, which wants
>the court to change a 1992 law that required them to pay health benefits to
>a miners health fund, although the company no longer works in the industry.
>John T. Montgomery, lawyer for Eastern Enterprises, said the law amounts to
>"essentially unlimited liability that may be imposed retroactively."
>
>United Mine Workers of America lawyer Peter Buscemi, says the fund now has
>about 76,933 beneficiaries, the majority of whom earned benefits by working
>for companies that are still in the coal business.
>
>And in coal country four families in Taylorsville, Illinois, have begun a
>lawsuit against Taylorville Gas & Electric Co. and two engineering firms
>for allegedly botching the cleanup of a coal gasification plant that
>operated from 1892-1932. Between 1989 and 1990 Zachary Donaldson, Chad
>Hryhorysak and Erika May were diagnosed within 12 months of each other with
>neuroblastoma, a cancer which strikes the adrenal glands and nervous
>system. Brandon Steele, diagnosed a year later, in 1991, is dead.
>
>Across the Atlantic in January, Britain’s High Court awarded compensation
>to six former coal miners who suffered lung damage - a landmark judgment
>that could eventually lead to the  British government facing claims of
>US$2.1 billion. The court ruled that British Coal, state-owned until 1994,
>did not do enough to protect miners from fine coal dust. Five men and one
>widow received awards of between US$5,280 and US$17,325. The Department of
>Industry and miners’ unions said at least 10,000 claims have already been
>lodged, and there could be more than 30,000.
>
>SOURCES: "Test Opens Of Law Forcing Nonmining Companies To Pay Miners'
>Health Policies" by Katherine Rizzo, Associated Press, March 4, 1998;
>"Mining Illness Will Take Additional Inspectors To Combat" by Anick
>Jesdanun, Associated Press, February 26, 1998; "Mine Agency Changes Process
>In Campaign To Eliminate Black Lung" by Martha Bryson Hodel, Associated
>Press, February 12, 1998; "British Miners Win Lung Disease Compensation In
>Landmark Judgment," Associated Press, January 23, 1998; "Illinois Town
>Grapples With Cancer, Points Finger At Coal Gas" by Tara Burghart, December
>3, 1997, Associated Press.
>
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>
>U'WA DEMAND RECOGNITION AND RIGHTS AS PRECONDITIONS TO DIALOGUE
>
>Responding to the immediate and increasing threat of oil exploration on
>their lands, the U’wa people of Colombia have issued a statement demanding
>that both the Colombian government and Occidental Petroleum recognize their
>right to refuse or accept oil activity on their land as a precondition to
>any dialogue about oil development. The statement also demands an immediate
>withdrawal of the military presence in U’wa territory, which has increased
>dramatically over the last month.
>
>The U’wa, a tribe of 5,000 living in the Andean cloud forests, have
>previously stated that any extraction of oil on their land will lead to
>this tribe committing mass suicide by walking off a 1,400 foot cliff. U’wa
>leaders were careful to point out that they still consider that option
>open. U’wa land is estimated to hold 1.5 billion barrels of oil, or about
>three months of US supply.
>
>The demands by the U’wa are the latest development in the legal process
>pending before the Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the
>Organization of American States (OAS). The case was filed in May of 1997 by
>the Traditional U’wa Authority, the National Indigenous Organization of
>Colombia, and the Amazon Coalition, in an attempt to gain legal recognition
>of the U’wa’s right to determine whether or not oil development should
>proceed on their land. In August of 1997, the OAS and a conflict resolution
>team from Harvard University released a series of recommendations for the
>case, including that a separate consultation process be established which
>would seek to mediate the case, but which would ultimately force the U’wa
>to concede Colombia’s right to sell their land.
>
>This response from the U’wa indicates their willingness to talk, but only
>if they retain their right to make a final and binding decision over the
>fate of their ancestral homeland.  "Now they say that the government wants
>to know our thoughts about the oil project, but if they don’t like what we
>think, they will simply proceed with their own decisions" said Roberto
>Cobaria, President of the Traditional U’wa Authority.
>
>Several points in the U’wa statement addressed the urgent need to cease
>activities designed to divide the U’wa people - including the increasing
>military presence in the area, and the need for Occidental to stop
>"financing" groups of U’wa without first obtaining the agreement of the
>U’wa representative authorities.  "Our impression of these actions is that
>they aim to create conflicts among our people" reads the statement.
>
>The U’wa statement also calls for a codification of Occidental’s promise to
>suspend oil activity pending the outcome of the mediation process, the
>legal recognition of their complete traditional homeland, and the
>retraction of numerous statements that Occidental has made that falsely
>imply that the U’wa are linked to guerrillas.
>
>Exploration rights to the U’wa territory, known to the oil companies as
>"Samore block" are held by a consortium led by Los Angeles based Occidental
>Petroleum which includes Shell as an equal partner. Last month however,
>Shell announced its intention to try to sell its 37.5% share in the Samore
>block.  Shell is also selling its interests in the Cano Limon Project,
>which was bombed 65 times in 1997 causing US$85.6 million in lost revenues
>and spilling over 200,000 barrels of oil. Colombian oil developments are an
>increasingly popular target of the country’s rebels. U’wa community leaders
>fear that oil development will dramatically increase the violence in their
>homeland. (SEE Community Pipeline Resources).
>
>SOURCES: Project Underground, Rainforest Action Network, Earth Justice
>Legal Defense Fund; pers. comm. with U’wa leaders, ONIC representatives,
>March 1998.
>
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>
>AFRICAN COMMUNITIES PAY HIGH PRICE FOR MINING
>
>According to reports from African non-governmental organizations,
>communities located in mining areas are paying a heavy social and
>environmental price for the increased mining activities on the continent.
>Commercial mining has led to environmental degradation, the displacement of
>people from communities where they have lived for years, and higher
>incidences of lung diseases among populations.
>
>Often, mine sites are contaminated beyond restoration, according to
>participants at a March 2-4 meeting in the Ghanaian capital of Accra on
>‘Mining, Society and Environment’, organized by the Africa office of the
>Third World Network.
>
>The effect of mining activities on the society and the environment has
>received little attention from African governments and mining transnational
>corporations (TNCs). "Presently, the benefits from mining tend to stay with
>the TNCs, while the negative consequences like pollution of water and soil,
>which may threaten the livelihood of surrounding communities, stay within
>the country," says a briefing paper circulated at the meeting.
>
>Mining is one sector that has attracted huge sums of Foreign Direct
>Investment (FDI) worldwide. From 1985 to 1995, there were US$3.5 billion of
>new investment in emerging- market mining projects, but in the last two
>years alone, there have been US$8 billion in new deals, according to
>Christopher Chamberlain of the Bank Information Center, a non-governmental
>organization that provides information on the projects, policies and
>practices of the multilateral development banks.
>
>This increased investment has gone hand in hand with initiatives meant to
>encourage foreign investment - by the end of 1995, at least 35 countries
>had radically relaxed their mining codes.
>
>Charles Abugre of Third World Network expressed the above point clearly in
>his statement, "Indeed, so intense is the desire for Foreign Direct
>Investment that African leaders have literally fallen over each other to
>create the incentives and establish the investor confidence necessary to
>attract FDI."
>
>"The greatest concern over the mining rush is in the areas of social
>development and the environment," said Abugre. "There is a growing
>perception of collusion between the state and mining companies in a
>singular drive for investment... and that this collusion has little
>sensitivity to social and environmental accountability or responsibility.
>Social impacts are the most abused. Most often than not, communities are
>not involved during the baseline studies, nor do they have the capacity to
>conduct such studies independently," he added.
>
>E. Kofi Arhin, an industrial relations officer with the Ghana Mineworkers
>Union in Tarkwa, western Ghana, agreed: "What we are seeing is that the
>relationships between the communities and mining companies are going to be
>really nasty,"  Arhin said. "The mining companies are not doing anything to
>help people. The mine corporations are having a field day, doing whatever
>they like. They are only interested in ploughing back their profits to
>their countries."
>
>Countries appear to be underbidding each other in a desperate scramble for
>foreign investment. Tax systems have been modified to include incentives
>such as duty-free imports and freedom to remit foreign currency earnings.
>
>"The recolonisation of Africa is going on," remarked one delegate, "and if
>we don't stop this, we are in trouble again."
>
>SOURCE: "The Mining Companies Rush In" by Lewis Machipisa, InterPress
>Service, March 4, 1998; pers. comm. with Danny Kennedy, March 5, 1998.
>
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>
>DAYAKS RALLY SUPPORT IN AUSTRALIA
>
>A group of Dayaks, the indigenous people of Kalimantan in Indonesia,
>recently toured Australia to promote solidarity with their struggle for
>land rights and compensation from Australian-based mining companies. These
>companies account for more than 60% of Australian investments in Indonesia.
>
>"This tour is part of the Indonesian mining campaign being run by Community
>Aid Abroad (CAA)over the next 18 months. It will be parallel with a
>national campaign in Indonesia, run by the National Mining Advocacy
>Network", said Leonard Simanjuntuk, one of the participants.
>
>The CAA campaign is focusing on two mines: PT Kelian Equatorial Mine (PT
>KEM) in East Kalimantan and PT Indo Muro Kencana (PT IMK) located in
>Central Kalimantan. PT KEM is 90% owned by Rio Tinto, while PT IMK is 90%
>owned by Perth-based Aurora. Both mines produce significant amounts of gold
>and silver.
>
>PT KEM produces 400,000 ounces of gold a year and is considered the largest
>gold mine in south-east Asia after the huge Freeport mine in Irian Jaya (in
>which Rio Tinto has a significant interest).
>
>Traditional landowners and people from the towns and villages in the
>vicinity of these mines have had to cope with a host of problems since
>exploration and operations began in the 1980s. These have been exacerbated
>by the recent fires and drought.
>
>"First of all, there is the destructive impact on the environment. PT KEM
>dumps their waste in the Kelian River, which subsequently is now polluted
>along with the Mahakam which joins it", explained Pius Nyompe, a customary
>landowner forced off his land by the company. Pius continues, "People no
>longer fish or bathe in these rivers."
>
>Last September, angry residents from Linggang Biggung blockaded a road and
>demanded that the company do something about the dust that trucks throw up
>which covers crops and produce. PT KEM agreed to take responsibility for
>the maintenance of the road while mining continues, but stated that it
>could not afford to seal the road.
>
>"The communities have been marginalised economically through the loss of
>their own small-scale mining", said Nyompe. He continues, "Before Rio Tinto
>came, traditional mining [panning] was the main and most important source
>of income. There is a regulation from the local government which allows
>people to do traditional mining in a 50-metre band along the banks of the
>Kelian River. PT KEM ignores this regulation. When it started exploration,
>the company simply claimed the area along the river. Now the people are not
>allowed to do their traditional mining there, and hundreds of families have
>been evicted from their land."
>
>Some 440 families have been displaced since land acquisitions by the
>company began in 1990. The police mobile brigade and army units have been
>used to enforce evictions and to quell disputes over compensation.  Nyompe
>and his group are scathing about PT KEM publications which talk up the
>benefits the mine provides to the community, referring to them as "glossy
>lies". The unwillingness of the company to respond to the concerns of
>people affected by the mine remains a big obstacle.
>
>A highlight for the group was when they addressed a 500-strong stop-work
>meeting of CFMEU members on February 2nd at Singleton in the Hunter Valley.
>After a presentation of CFMEU caps made for the Hunter Valley No. 1 picket,
>the chant of "the workers united will never be defeated" filled the meeting
>hall. The Dayaks’ plight is being publicised by the international campaign
>by unions against the anti-worker practices of Rio Tinto.
>
>SOURCE: Green Left #305, February 11, 1998.
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>DIARY: De Beers: Hopes that small print will give an edge
>
>De Beers, the South African group that dominates the world’s diamond
>business, plans to inscribe its name in tiny letters on each gem it
>produces to bolster consumer confidence at a time of less than sparkling
>sales.
>
>The inscription will be invisible to the naked eye, but will be legible,
>even in set jewellery, through a microscope.
>
>"We believe there is a certain anxiety in buying such an expensive product
>which you know little about," said Nicky Oppenheimer, De Beers chairman.
>"The De Beers name will give a sense of confidence to the buyer."
>
>The company - which has suffered a big sales drop in the Asian economic
>crisis and faces increasing competition from rival producers - has
>developed technology for inscribing the gems. Each one will also carry an
>identification number.
>
>Analysts welcomed the inscription move. "This is an attempt to attach a
>value to the brand," said one. "It could put other producers under some
>pressure."
>
>De Beers yesterday reported a 9 % fall in 1997 net earnings to US$1.2bn
>after sales measured by diamond value fell by 19 % in Japan and by 18 % in
>the rest of the Asia Pacific region. Mr Oppenheimer said that if the dismal
>outlook continued no measure could be ruled out, including the possibility
>of cutting mine production.
>
>The North American market was the only real growth area, with sales up 10 %
>in dollar terms. "The US is the only show in town," he said.
>
>SOURCE: Financial Times, March 4, 1998
>
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>
>ECUADOR: An explosion and fire at Ecuador's largest pipeline has killed 11
>people. The Red Cross said 2 children were among the 4 who died in Quito of
>burns suffered in the blaze. A fireball from the explosion razed a
>neighborhood on February 26th, killing 7, injuring 80 and causing residents
>to throw themselves into a river to escape the flames. More than 600 people
>were left homeless by the blaze, which occurred near the Pacific port of
>Esmeraldas, 110 miles northwest of Quito. The fire also prompted an oil
>leak in the area. Three children were flown to a burn institute in Texas
>for treatment but a fourth child awaiting evacuation died as the plane
>prepared to take off (Associated Press, March 2, 1998).
>
>LOUISIANA, USA: Though federal courts threw out a lawsuit by the Amungme
>people against Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold on March 3rd, a similar case
>filed in New Orleans will go forward, a state appeals court ruled on March
>5th. The 3-judge panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed last
>year’s decision to dismiss the suit filed on behalf of Yosefa Alomang. The
>judges ruled that the Orleans Court does have jurisdiction over the
>personal injury and environmental damage claims of the Amungme people of
>Irian Jaya. Because the defendants are based in New Orleans, trial in
>Louisiana is proper. The class action lawsuit will represent between 3,000
>and 10,000 Indonesians (The Times-Picayune, March 6, 1998; pers. comm with
>Martin Regan, March 5, 1998).
>
>PERU/ARGENTINA: Cambior said has it shelved plans to develop 2 copper
>projects worth US$3.3 billion in Argentina and Peru, a sign plunging metal
>prices may delay billions of dollars of mining investment in Latin America.
>Meanwhile, Minorco SA, the international arm of South Africa’s Anglo
>American said that it also has delayed a study of a US$750 million copper
>mine in Peru due to weak copper prices. The decisions are the latest sign
>that sluggish demand from Asia is pummeling mining companies, forcing them
>to shut mines or delay investments until prices for gold, copper and zinc
>recover. At least 5 major mines, with production equal to 2.2 % of global
>output, may shut down this year due to low copper prices, according to a
>recent report by Macquarie Equities. Several gold mining companies,
>meanwhile, have shut mines as the precious metal hit 18-year lows in
>January (Bloomberg News, February 26, 1998).
>
>PUERTO RICO: About 8,000 gallons of jet fuel leaked from an underground
>pipe into a canal near the Caribbean Gulf Refinery in Catano, Puerto Rico,
>the US Coast Guard said on February 24th. The Coast Guard said it was
>working with local government officials to contain and recover the oil
>product. Workers at the site discovered the leak after a vessel offloaded
>fuel to the refinery. An oil boom had been placed around the area to
>contain the fuel, which was continuing to leak from the broken pipe into
>the evening (Reuters, February 26, 1998).
>
>THAILAND: Thai Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai  has said that a suspended
>Thai-Burma gas pipeline must go ahead despite objections from environmental
>activists. The pipeline will cut through first-class watershed forest and
>will affect the livelihood of the villagers as well as harm flora and fauna
>in the area. The prime minister conceded the state-owned Petroleum
>Authority of Thailand (PTT) may have neglected to take full account of the
>pipeline's environmental impact. Uncoal of the US will operate the pipeline
>as it does in Burma where it has faced heavy opposition from human rights
>activists who have documented the use of  forced labor to build the
>pipeline (Agence France-Presse, March 3, 1998; Reuters, February 25, 1998).
>
>UAE: The United Arab Emirates has banned the use of floating storage
>facilities for storing and transporting oil and oil products in its ports
>and territorial waters. The official WAM news agency said the resolution
>banned the use of barges, tankers and other marine vessels used as floating
>depots for transporting and storing oil and its products. It said the
>resolution also annulled all licenses previously issued to such carriers.
>UAE authorities have come under rare attack this year in local newspapers
>for allowing ill-equipped and unsafe barges to carry oil in UAE waters. Two
>oil spills in the space of 1 week have highlighted an environmental threat
>by barges widely suspected to be illegally carrying Iraqi oil (Reuters,
>March 4, 1998).
>
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>
>VITAL STATISTICS: Layoffs in the mining industry
>
>United States: (all figures for gold companies in 1998)
>
>Newmont of Denver                : 500
>Homestake of San Francisco   : 850
>Echo Bay Mines of Denver      : 650
>
>South Africa: (all figures for gold companies)
>
>1998              National losses:  50,000
>1988 - 1998 National Losses: 250,000
>
>Eastern Europe: (all figures for coal industry, 1990-1996)
>
>Poland :                150,000
>Russia :                147,000
>Czech Republic :         60,000
>Romania :               60,000
>Hungary :               20,000
>Bulgaria :              2,000
>Slovenia :              2,000
>
>1990 - 1996: 500,000 (regional total)
>1996 - 2000: 400,000 (projected)
>
>Chile (all figures for coal industry)
>
>1997: 1,600  in Lota plus
>1997:  3,500 mine-related jobs in transportation & suppliers
>
>
>SOURCES:  US job losses: Associated Press, January 28, 1998. South African
>Job Losses, Inter Press Service, January 14, 1998.  Eastern Europe job
>losses: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe press release,
>November 21, 1996. Chilean job losses: Miami Herald, March 3, 1998
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>WHAT YOU CAN DO: Guardians of the Rural Environment are calling for letters
>of protest by March 15,1998.
>
>The Yarnell Mining Co. (Bema Gold Canada) proposes an open-pit mine and
>cyanide leach facility within 500 feet of homes in the Yarnell area of the
>Bradshaw Mountains in central Arizona. This small village of 800 elderly
>retired persons opposes the project in general and most vehemently because
>of the health issues raised. The blasting of 78,000 tons per week and the
>introduction of 7 million lbs. of cyanide through the leaching process
>poses serious health issues to the residents.
>
>These draft permits contain no reference as to the ownership or
>availability of the necessary millions of gallons of water required for
>operation. The air quality permit shows no investigation of possible Hanta
>virus or Valley fever impacts caused by blasting. These two deadly diseases
>are endemic in the Southwest and are doubly dangerous to the elderly. We
>seek to force an investigation and medical evaluation into these health
>issues before ANY permit is approved. No listing of point source emissions
>from the all diesel power proposed. The manufacturer and technical data of
>all the mechanical equipment is listed as "TBD"(to be determined).  A
>permit should not be considered without complete data. This permit contains
>NO data.
>
>Your help is desperately needed. Only complaints from Alaska, B.C., the
>Northwest and Southwest can influence this Agency. Politically Arizona is a
>mining captive and has only limited population to threaten action if our
>health concerns are ignored. A letter of protest addressed as follows would
>help.
>
>Arizona Dept. of Environmental Quality
>3033 N. Central
>Phoenix, Az. 85012
><water> att: Tony Bode
><air>   att: Prabhat Bhargava
>
>Guardians of the Rural Environment
>P.O. Box 1086  Yarnell, Az. 85362
>520-427-3591
>
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>
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>
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>Tel: +61 3 9289 9444
>Fax: +613 94195318
>Email: caa@caa.org.au
>
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>2025 I St., NW, suite 400, Washington DC, 20006, USA
>Tel: +1 202 466 8191
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>
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>
>As of March 12th, the U’wa listserve will be operational. It is an open
>listserve and will keep subscribers up to date about the struggle of the
>U'wa people in Colombia, and the activities of multinational corporations
>in and near their territory.
>
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