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Gold/Mining/Energy : Winspear Resources -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lorne who wrote (23899)	8/3/1999 8:51:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26850

It's been over before and you've brought it up again. Learn to read, and to comprehend what you read. Assume nothing without evidence. You have no true clear idea who i am or where i'm from or what i do. You have invented a false one. I maintain these points - 1. An awkward and overly lengthy land-use decision process has cost Diamet and Aber, and will soon cost Winspear, far more than the maintenance of good soil/water/air stewardship and of good Indian relations would warrant. The process could be improved. A lot. Remember when wsp had a program held up for lack of a blasting permit? Think about it. 2. The chiapaneco situation is far more complex than you seem to imagine. I mean my God it's more complex than I imagine, and i spend time there. At times i confess i have felt sympathy for one 'side' or another, hearing the story of one 'side' [and at the moment i would tend to agree with the ezln angle on the situation in the Tzotzil/Tzeltal/Lacondón areas to some degree ... not the languages of our area, btw] ... but after a while you get to realise that like everywhere else, there's a side for each individual, and for each individual case. Watch out for the danger of sitting in judgement, especially with limited witnesses whose credibility you haven't verified. And where the dispute is over land use, and over power and control of land, and where cultures clash. This also definitely applies in the NWT to the diamond company, resident, native, and government groups involved. There was an FP article over the weekend on some stupid Ontario beer company using the 'don't drink the water' cliché against México in their adverts. In my village we drink the tap water, the system is clean and well-maintained. Where it is not potable, for instance in all cities, people drink bottled water. Don't accept myths as gospel - yes you can drink the water in México, you just have to learn about it first. Sort of like talking politics.