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overall goal of foei's mining
campaign:
To enhance the capacity of groups to develop
campaigns on issues according to their needs,
and to increase their regional and
international coordination, within the
framework of our sustainability concepts. The
final overall goal is to develop a very
strong set of groups with active campaigns in
their countries, integrated at both the
regional and global level.These groups will
have a clear vision of the different aspects
of the problems caused by the current flows
of energy and materials as well as the
alternatives to them, based on a developed
conceptual framework of sustainability,
integrating concepts including environmental
space, social and environmental rucksack, and
ecological debt.
the objectives of the mining
campaign
In our work we aim to:
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cooperate with and support local
communities to stop certain mining
projects.
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concentrate forces working with
communities, not with corporations, to make
people aware about the possibilities of
developing alternative activities.
we demand:
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an improvement of the standards and
performance of the mining industry.
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an end to all uranium mining.
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a significant reduction in the size of
the gold industry; a global ban on open
pit, cyanide heap leach gold mining.
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a moratorium in the financing of new
oil, gas and mining projects.
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a reduction in the current flows and
use of energy and raw materials.
our campaign also aims to:
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increase the awareness of the
population about the environmental and
social impacts of mining.
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analyze if any particular kind of
mining activity could be considered
unsustainable by nature.
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include analysis in term of gender,
ecological debt, and other integrated
analyses such as ecological footprint and
rucksack.
social impacts
Mining disproportionately affects the poor,
indigenous and rural communities. These
people often lose their lands, work in
dangerous conditions for little pay, and
suffer resulting the pollution and
environmental degradation.
Transnational oil companies in particular
have been guilty of bolstering despotic
regimes, and cooperating with massive human
rights abuses.
Mining projects often yield little, if any,
long-term net benefits for host countries and
regions. Sometimes mining and drilling is
part of an ill-considered World Bank approved
project, such as the Chad-Cameroon pipeline.
Often transnational companies are responsible
for resource extraction, sucking the earth
dry for a profit.
environmental impacts
Mining produces wastes in huge quantities.
Much of this is contaminated and creates many
environmental problems, including water
pollution. Toxic sludge, unstable spoil
heaps,and dead rivers are some of the common
results of mining.
Mining is one of the greatest threats to
biological diversity worldwide. Industrial
logging and land conversion for agriculture,
are another two, and these often occur as a
direct result of an area being opened up for
mining.
Oil and gas extraction is obviously
contributes directly to climate change, but
other forms of mining are also major
contributors: smelters and mines alone
account for up to 10 percent of world
commercial energy use.
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