…in which they notified the world of the Environmental Court proceedings brought against the company by the local population around the Vizcachitas project, if you want an idea of the depth of community feeling against the project and the true state of CSR, have a read of this. Here’s an extract:
Therefore, we declare the Vizcachitas Mining a NON GRATA company as, far from being an agent of “sustainable development”, it is an agent of legal maneuvers, conflicts and social, economic and environmental degradation. We condemn the company’s manipulation of communities and of public opinion in our region, though offers of resources and financing programs for projects to organizations that will always need economic support, a method via which they try to obtain complicit silence (from people) faced with this gigantic ecocide.
And if you check the list of signees to this open letter, you’ll see that it isn’t just a few minor weirdo groups. And don’t say you weren’t warned.