Monthly Archives: ஒக்ரோபர் 2007

இங்கே ஜெகஜ்ஜோதியாக இரவெங்கும் மினுமினுக்க எங்கோ எவரோ சுரண்டப்பட்டு சுருங்குவது குறித்த பதிவு:

மேலே: ஒரு நகரம் இராணுவத்தின் உதவியுடன் தரைமட்டமாக்கப்படுகிறது. ஊரில் வசித்த அனைவரும் பலவந்தமாக வெளியேற்றப்பட்டார்கள்.

The dirty story behind local energy – News – The Phoenix: “Eastern Massachusetts hums comfortably on Colombian coal. But the mines are devastating land and lives in the Guajira peninsula.”

“We’re not against coal mining,” says José Julio Pérez, the president of the Tabaco displaced villagers’ committee (and the brother of the late Aura Pérez), who now lives with his wife and five children in a two-room shack in Albania. “We just want the mine to compensate us for the damage it has caused. We’re asking the mine to relocate our community. We just want it to respect our human rights.”

“In Massachusetts, Colombian coal is a way for Dominion to delay having to install costly capital equipment to meet our state’s clean-air regulations,” says HealthLink founder Lynn Nadeau. In addition, as its name suggests, HealthLink takes a holistic approach to the impact of fossil fuels and the true cost of coal to our society. Shifting coal mining to Colombia doesn’t reduce environmental destruction — it just relocates it. “Colombian coal exploits cheap labor and causes vast environmental degradation [there],” adds Nadeau, “making many areas uninhabitable.”

Cerrejón pays out more than half a billion dollars to its shareholders every year. In 2005 it reported close to $450 million in retained profits. The communities affected by the mine got a much smaller compensation from the company’s operation: Cerrejón spent just $2 million in its “communities division.”

MISERY: A Wayuu child shows clear signs of severe malnutrition, including reddish hair, distended belly, and spindly arms and legs.