Big news from the resource library section: 16 new factsheets came online! These are well documented cases of environmental justice struggles, fully hyperlinked and in a nice layout. The batch we’re presenting now is all about mining and nuclear energy. Students, teachers, environmental journalists, activists and others can find fact checked stories from Brazil, Peru, Slovenia, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Niger, Guatemala, Colombia, Bulgaria, India, Turkey, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Honduras. Here’s the list (click on title to see the factsheet introduction)
- Uranium mining in Brazil: The conflict in Caetité, Bahia
- Tia Maria in Islay, Arequipa (Peru)
- TES6—New Coal Power Plant Unit in Sostanj
- Zinc, lead and silver mega-deposits in San Cristobal (Bolivia)
- Pascua-Lama – mining and glaciers on the Argentina-Chile border
- The radiological impact of uranium extraction by AREVA in northern Niger
- Popular resistance to the Marlin mine (Guatemala)
- Copper mining in Los Pelambres, Los Caimanes (Chile)
- La Colosa Mining Project in Cajamarca (Colombia)
- Uranium Fairytales from Kremikovci, Bulgaria
- Illegal Sand Mining Conflicts in India
- Opposition to Gold Mining at Mount Ida, Turkey
- Pacific Rim: El Dorado mine in El Salvador
- Gold mining suspended in Crucitas (Costa Rica)
- Yanacocha Mining Company in Conga Cajamarca (Peru)
- Gold and silver mining in Cerro Blanco (Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras)
