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Tag: extractive industries

  • Protect our national forests from an increase in logging

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    fitzdon

    A few weeks ago, my wife and I were backpacking on the Sheltowee Trace National Recreation Trail along Rock Creek in McCreary County when we came across a fellow hiker who’d traveled from Indiana to hike Kentucky’s long trail. After some talk of footwear choices and blisters, she remarked on the astounding beauty of the…

  • Meet the people building alternatives to mining in Colombia

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    fitzdon

    On the 26th March 2017, citizens from the mountainous municipality of Cajamarca, Colombia, voted, with a 98% majority, to ban South African miner AngloGold Ashanti’s vast La Colosa gold mining project, in a ‘popular consultation’ led by grassroots youth activists and small-scale farmers. One year on, and Cajamarca’s victory has helped inspire a much wider…