"Panama’s vast Rio Cobre copper operation was shut down by judicial decision more than a year ago, but Indigenous people report restrictions on movement and unexplained illness and death - Guardian"
Sadly, The Guardian have made a whole range of factual and contextual errors in their article. These are being challenged. There are no restrictions on movement (I even have the bus time table for the transport arranged by the mine, the use of which is open to everybody; clearly, as one would expect, access to the industrial site itself has to be restricted - a safety thing...maybe the bus frequency at the bus-stop the investigative journalist used wasn't frequent enough for him?). Oh, and before the mine arrived, there were no roads at all...the mine built them.
On the illnesses described are not unexplained and also have nothing at all to do with the mine - this is verified in an independent Government statement not mentioned by the journalist - the illness was from drinking untreated water. Despite the mine having made provision for clean fresh water.
Indeed, the journalist spent months putting the article together and then just one working day before publication decided to ask the mine for its comments using an inappropriate email address. Also, the mine is not Rio Cobre....it's Cobre Panama.
"Panama’s vast Rio Cobre copper operation was shut down by judicial decision more than a year ago, but Indigenous people report restrictions on movement and unexplained illness and death - Guardian"
Sadly, The Guardian have made a whole range of factual and contextual errors in their article. These are being challenged. There are no restrictions on movement (I even have the bus time table for the transport arranged by the mine, the use of which is open to everybody; clearly, as one would expect, access to the industrial site itself has to be restricted - a safety thing...maybe the bus frequency at the bus-stop the investigative journalist used wasn't frequent enough for him?). Oh, and before the mine arrived, there were no roads at all...the mine built them.
On the illnesses described are not unexplained and also have nothing at all to do with the mine - this is verified in an independent Government statement not mentioned by the journalist - the illness was from drinking untreated water. Despite the mine having made provision for clean fresh water.
Indeed, the journalist spent months putting the article together and then just one working day before publication decided to ask the mine for its comments using an inappropriate email address. Also, the mine is not Rio Cobre....it's Cobre Panama.