Charred,
With all due respect to you,why do critics make it sound like the mine will stop people from farming there? The size of the mine isnt huge you know, about the size of one very big praire farm, and thats not accounting for the big chunk thats under the town (no lime production there)..... in short, I really question the impact on "lime production". Dont think they'll miss a couple of farms' production, at most.
I also wonder why everyone gets to voice an opinion on this even if they are not directly affected in terms of land.... seems like there are a lot of vested financial interests there that would love to see a mine stopped because it would drive up wages, and the local rich farmers wont be able to pay the same to their cheap slave underemployed labour if a mine does get built..... if true, then I dont think there are too many valid "farm preservation" arguements....maintaining a cheap stock of slave labour (with little impact on local farm production if a mine was built) = no valid reason for not going through with it.....
And if the people are being displaced get better housing in the deal, with actual flushe toilets etc, all i can say is, if I was in that position, you could displace me anytime, the local mafia monoploistic farmers and their international eco-propagandaistic cronies could drop dead for all I'd care if I were a landless peasant....
(Having said that I do own a bit of stock in MAN, so maybe I'm biased).
Al.
I know enough about Peru to know most of it on the Pacific side of the Andes is bone dry..... if MAN did irrigation projects to assist in developing new farm land, to get or 4 crops off a year, then I say do it. Just do it right. |
