Problem: Unprecedent extractivism, energy subsidies, health and environmental risks.
We collectively can make a difference!
Worldwide (digital) disruption in favor of local people.
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- Sign and send letter of protest (with your organization).
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Tia Maria: some info
Location : in a closed valley with Tambo valley river, at the Pacific coast of Peru.
In a beautiful fertile river delta surrounded by huge steep mountains, the Tambo valley and river is ancient agricultural community.
On this mountain, above the towns of cocachacra and El Fiscal Southern Copper Peru attempts to excavate two huge open pits and extract copper.
Status: about to be started. Immediate action required.
The corporations wanting to build this project
Southern Copper Peru, Inc.
Grupo Mexico
These corporations in numbers...
Estimated total investment: US$ 1,800 mln dollars
Annual profit: US$787 mln of which only 2% will be taxed
100,000 tons of copper per year
5 people died in defending the territory
These projects do not come without risk of disaster
uenavista del Cobre mine disaster polluted the Sonora River in Mexico (same companies involved)
Cost in dollars: Over US $2,500 million dollars
Cost in life: unfathomable
