Latin America has a new country: Greenpeace Chile plans to maintain an independent nation in the glacial regions until Chile finally passes laws protecting the glaciers.
Residents in high Andean communities of northern Colombian broke off talks with the government aimed at securing consent for mining in the sensitive Páramo de Santurbán.
Barrick Gold’s problems continue at the colossal Pascua Lama mine high in the Andes as a provincial court upholds its April suspension of construction on the mine.
Barrick Gold is ordered to suspend work on its massive Pascua Lama mine high in the Andes; the company also gets a fine that Greenpeace dismisses as “laughable.”
With problemsāand finesāaccumulating at the mammoth Pacua Lama mine site high in the Andes, environmentalists are asking if it isn’t time to call the whole thing off.
