3Canary in the Cage
The South China Morning Post wrote about China’s Mirador mining project:
The region’s mountains are being carved up, there is ongoing deforestation and rivers are being discoloured by run-off from the mine. . . .
The contract between the Ecuadorean government and Chinese firm EcuaCorriente was signed in 2012. . . . Many remember the optimism that followed. There were promises of new roads, schools and hospitals. . . .
The environmental group Amazon Watch estimates that total deforestation in the region affected by the mine from 2010 to the end of 2017 was 1,307 hectares.
David Dene and Julio Prieto, experts who are part of the United Nations network Harmony with Nature, argue that the current design of tailings dams is not ...
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