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Photo credit: Matthew Burpee At the junction of the Mantaro and Yauli rivers in Peru, over 12,000 feet up in the Andes, is a small city of about 35,000 people. It is a community built on the mineral wealth of the mountains and exists only to serve the mines and the smelting company that processes [...] The Hudson River is beautiful. It begins in the Adirondack mountains, a little over 4200 feet from the base of New York State’s highest peak, Mt. Marcy, and flows for 315 miles; past the extraordinary rock formations known as the Palisades, to the southern tip of Manhattan, where it meets the Atlantic Ocean. At the [...] Ground water near this former smelting operation in Midvale, Utah is contaminated by the 2.5 million tons of slag, containing dangerous heavy metals like lead, arsenic, chromium, and cadmium. According to the EPA plan, the land will be beautified, but the groundwater will probably remain contaminated. Open this location in Google Earth With the enthusiastic complicity of the State and the participation of Canadian, US, British and South African transnational mining companies, Venezuela is seeing the execution of a project promoting the immediate exploitation of a rich gold reserve which, according to its promoters and beneficiaries, will turn out to be the discovery of the famous El [...] Last April, the Navajo Nation Council voted 63-19 to ban uranium mining on Navajo land. The vote was in response to efforts by Hydro Resources, Inc., (HRI) to get a license to re-initiate uranium mining in Indian country using a technique called “in situ” mining. Proponents say it’s safer than any other method of uranium [...] |
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