Indigenous|Or crazy Libtarded Environmentalists at Thom's

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Notes:
Includes letter by 82 of community.APRIL, the pulp and paper giant, violates Indonesian laws and community rights

World Rainforest Movement wrote the "environmentalists" letter at:
biofuelwatch : Message: Teluk Meranti community requests support

About APRIL Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) is a leading developer of fiber plantations with one of the world's largest pulp and paper mills. Owns RAPP.
Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings From Wikipedia

Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper APRIL’s main pulp subsidiary is Riau Andalan Pulp & Paper (RAPP). RAPP operates in Riau Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. Beginning operation in 1995, Friends of the Earth called RAPP the biggest paper pulp mill in the world, with a capacity of 2 million tonnes per year.

EYES ON THE FOREST - EoF releases Investigative Report on APRIL’s company

Greenpeace activists leave Kampar peninsula Sunday, November 15, 2009
Funny. I guess even the "natives" do not like neocolonialism and trampsing around the forest all those do-gooders.

Govt urged to decide on illegal logging in Riau The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Fri, 11/02/2007

Repeated: Indonesia: Indigenous Peoples Oppose Acacia Plantations On Their Customary Lands

PT. Indah Kiat Pulp & Paper Corporation (IKPP)

MORE WORKERS TO LOSE JOBS IN INDONESIA'S FORESTRY SECTOR.

Palm oil: the biofuel of the future driving an ecological disaster now
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Taluk Maranti in Sumatra, has some tribal leaders being negotiated with for plantations for palm oil, acacia and more, just sign over your land, and after we clear cut the rain forest and shove the orangutangs to a zoo, we'll sew palm tree plants, create jobs, you'll get a moped.

Harvesting the topsoil, churns peat bogs about 2-3 meters deep, when exposed to air, makes it the third largest generator of greenhouse gases. But palm oil is cheap, it's in food, soap, and fuel. The multinational corporation just wants to help the indigenous tribes to become a sustainable entity. [3000 years is obviously a short term culture headed for collapse]

There are also some unmentioned materials in the green movement's generators. Magnets need rare earth materials [no not the '70's group Rare Earth,] but Get Ready for where the harvest comes from, what the cost in manufacturing, what the locals pay for in terms of degraded ecosystem, compensation, heritage, culture.. the complexity is not just black or white, or green or red either.

btw, rare earth materials are not rare, just not commonly known. However

As producer and narrator Stan Correy says:

China currently produces about 95% of the world’s rare earths, which are metals which are essential to modern living and used all around us every day. In business it’s a volatile mix, with complex political alchemy for every government, including Australia.

The program features several interviews of a variety of individuals from a number of different sectors, in addition to yours truly.

You can listen to the piece on the Background Briefing Rare Earths and China program Web page or by clicking below:

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The larger issue here is globalization, neoliberal policies that put the extraction of resources for a global "community" above local and national regulations, and the imposition of the "needs" of the global private economic entities above the needs and choices of local communities. Ultimately, we will come upon the issue of sustainability, and the rights of individuals and their communities to organize for the purpose of their self determined long term good and the sustainability of their way of life -- a way that might be separate from the ontological economic global interests in that regard.

And "in that regard," the question comes back to us, each of us individually, and our willingness to allow those interests to determine through their own powerful levers of institutional control, what our lives will be about.

The question one might ask could be, if a community expresses the following,:

Indonesia: Indigenous Peoples oppose acacia plantations on their customary lands

In June, the community of Teluk Meranti sent a letter to the company RAPP/APRIL declaring that they reject the presence of the company on their lands. They did so “with regard to the following considerations:

1. The land is to be retained for our grandchildren’s future
2. Experiences by other surrounding villages and areas where the RAPP company has operated have impacted negatively on the local community’s rights
3. It has caused loss of agricultural and horticultural land belonging to the community
4. The community will lose the source of its livelihood (economic, social and cultural) from the forest which will be converted to an industrial timber plantation.”

This community has the right to this land because, as they specified in their letter: “We, the community of Teluk Meranti, have inhabited and utilised this area in a wise and traditional way since long before Indonesia’s independence”.

...what are the national, international, and legal frameworks that require such a plea in the first place? Somewhere in the answer you'll find the footprint of WTO, the World Bank, and so forth.

Of course we have been witnessing the process of resource extraction lands for centuries. We take it somewhat for granted now. It's taken on different guises, from our own colonial evolution into thirteen states, and then fifty, taking up the lands and resources of the continent and subsuming them into a nation, European colonial empires evolving into client states, and to the U.S. empire of bases designed for the protection of innocent "freedom loving" Americans from disturbed individuals who have their resources extracted and their ways of life disrupted beyond their recognition.

But if there is going to be any kind of consciousness shift to an understanding of our limits to infinite growth and a turn to issues of long term sustainability, of which the global warming issue is only a canary in the mine shaft, then the question of why these remaining indigenous communities must plead in this way for their rights to sustainability must come to the fore with this kind of issue (and there are many of these instances in the world beyond the television viewers in the industrialized nation of managed pets, of which the U.S. is among the foremost).

As a result, on August 17, 26 organizations from Asia, Europe, and the Americas sent a joint letter to the company, urging it to respect the community’s decision of rejecting the presence of the company in their lands. In the letter, they reminded the company that “the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, includes the right of indigenous peoples to reject planned developments that would affect their customary lands”. Copies of this letter were sent to the community, the authorities, the press and the customers of RAPP.

We hope that the Indonesian authorities will take action to ensure that the rights of the indigenous people of Teluk Meranti are respected and that they will intervene to stop the planned acacia plantations on their lands.

Precisely what are those 26 organizations making that plea? Would one be the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, perhaps? "We hope..." the 26 say in their letter. But why should hope be an issue? Hope means one is without agency.

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Not sure which organizations signed the letter but there was no mention of "We hope...". The we hope appears to be from Patrick Anderson and or someone at WRM {World Rainforest Movement}.

The letter in question's content is:

To: Thomas Handoko, Director of RAPP

Re: Respecting indigenous peoples’ rights in the Kampar Peninsular

Dear Sir,

It has come to our attention that the Teluk Meranti community has rejected RAPP’s plans to develop Acacia pulpwood plantations that will impact the community’s customary territories on the Kampar Peninsular. In a letter to RAPP on 20 June, the Teluk Meranti community wrote that it has used and managed its customary forests on the Kampar Peninsular since long before Indonesia achieved independence, and that it rejects RAPP’s presence on its territory.

We note that in March 2007, the then Director of RAPP, Mr Rudi Fajar, informed an international meeting in Riau organized by The Forest Dialogue, that RAPP would respect the principle of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in establishing new plantation areas and resolving land conflicts with indigenous communities.

The right of indigenous peoples to FPIC, which is included in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, includes the right of indigenous peoples to reject planned developments that would affect their customary lands.

We urge you to respect the decision of the Teluk Meranti community, and to implement procedures in line with the principle of FPIC within your company.

Sincerely,

Marcus Colchester

Director, Forest Peoples Programme


Cc:
Sub district head (Camat) of Teluk Meranti
Communities of the Kampar Peninsular: Teluk Meranti, Teluk Binjai, Pulau Muda
Minister of Forestry, Republic of Indonesia
NGO’s of Riau and Indonesia

Media
Customers of RAPP…

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While I think it's a good idea to use the Fair Trade issue to help raise consciousness, I don't see it as a serious strategy for dealing with the larger, macro effects of an expanding, integrating global economy. With more than 6.6 billion human beings on the planet, what we individually choose to buy based on a very small amount of total information available won't change the nature of the global economic system all that much. There's too much more involved, and much of it doesn't have all that much to do with what we buy in the grocery store, or other types of retail outlets.

Take one small example, pulp products, many of which now come from destroying rain forest ecosystems by stripping the trees and all that those old growth tree support in their climax ecosystems, not to mention their role as the very lungs of the biosphere. Is there a Fair Trade version of paper, toilet paper, paper board, and any other of a range of pulp products sold to corporations and business, not just households, for instance?

APP owned by Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL)

APP is one of the world's leading pulp and paper companies and is ranked one of the largest vertically integrated pulp & paper producer in Asia, excluding Japan.

Its combined pulp, paper and packaging capacities in Indonesia amount to over 7 million tonnes, using fiber from plantations and wood residues of plantation development. APP currently has its principal operations located in Indonesia, and markets its products to more than 65 countries on six continents.

Over the years it has expanded its operations significantly, through acquisitions and expansions in several of its pulp and paper mills. It is APP's commitment to customer satisfaction that enables us to grow our share in paper sales worldwide and broadening our presence through marketing offices in many countries.

APRIL says it does this:

Combating Illegal Logging
Empowering Local Communities
Preventing and Managing Fire and Haze
Protecting High Conservation Value Forests
Managing Kampar Peatlands for Sustainable Development
Resolving Concession Land Conflicts

But then we find stories like this:

APRIL, the pulp and paper giant, violates Indonesian laws and community rights

Of course there's always this hopeful action:

Green-Minded Staples Ends Ties With Asia Pulp & Paper

But on an international political scale, corporation vs nation state, we have this kind of back slapping between the good ol' insiders:

Asia Pulp & Paper commends US decision to reject dumping duty on China paper

Anti-dumping, Safeguards, Countervailing Duties

Anti-dumping suits, along with safeguards and countervailing measures, are tools for protecting domestic industries from surges of cheap foreign imports. Although the WTO strives to eliminate all trade barriers, it recognizes that nations require flexibility to adjust to economic shocks as multilateral agreements increasingly liberalize trade. Thus, these measures allow nations to temporarily protect their economies against fluctuations in trading patterns. Although anti-dumping, safeguards, and countervailing measures share an often uneasy relationship with the WTO’s core principles, many member nations consider them essential to fostering fair and free trade.

It's a mess.

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I'd like to add a little more level of detail to the corporate forces behind these relentlessly destructive and transformative attacks on local communities, done in the guise of the better for all neoliberal global economy.

From the original article, Indonesia: Indigenous Peoples oppose acacia plantations on their customary lands, we find this information:

The indigenous people of Teluk Meranti in the Kampar Peninsula, Riau, Sumatra, are resisting efforts by a pulp and paper company to take over their customary lands.

The pulpwood plantation company, Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper, (RAPP) owned by the pulp and paper giant, APRIL, has obtained in principle permits to develop Acacia plantations on 45,000 hectares of peat swamp forest in the Kampar Peninsula, Riau Province, Sumatra. RAPP would like to establish up to 150,000 hectares of Acacia plantations in a ring around the edge of the 700,000 Kampar Peninsula on peat forests that are under the traditional management and ownership of about ten indigenous communities.

So, the pulpwood plantation company, Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper, (RAPP) is owned by the pulp and paper giant, APRIL. Now, what is APRIL?

About APRIL

Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) is a leading developer of fiber plantations with one of the world's largest pulp and paper mills.
Our vision is to be one of the largest, best-managed, most profitable and sustainable pulp and paper companies in the world, and be a preferred supplier to our customers and the preferred company to our people.

As a major producer of fiber, pulp and paper, APRIL knows it has a fundamental role in developing ways to meet the world's growing demand for these products, while integrating sustainability in our operations.

Quick links to our fact sheets on:

Combating Illegal Logging
Empowering Local Communities
Preventing and Managing Fire and Haze
Protecting High Conservation Value Forests
Managing Kampar Peatlands for Sustainable Development
Resolving Concession Land Conflicts

So we have these Orwellian high minded statements from a major transnational conglomerate of corporations, like "empowering local communities" and fluffy words about forest sustainability,

but then we find stories like the one beginning this thread, where when looking further:

APRIL, the pulp and paper giant, violates Indonesian laws and community rights we find a longer list egregious environmental affronts, systematically upside down from their nice little list of fact sheets full of assurances that they are a good world citizen with the best of intentions:

Eyes on the Forest

Here's an interesting little tid bit related to the carbon trading schemes (an echo of the pollution trading schemes some of us tried to argue against when Clinton was putting together his wonderful NAFTA and GATT proposals that have done so much for the US economy -- rah rah for Clinton, Obama and the neoliberal Democrats!):

Indonesia: Timber Corruption’s High Costs

$2 Billion Annual Revenue Loss and Damage to Rule of Law, Human Rights

HRW Press Release

(Jakarta, 1 December 2009) - Corruption in Indonesia's lucrative forestry industry costs the government US$2 billion annually, detracting from the resources available to meet its obligations on economic and social rights, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Inadequate oversight and conflicts of interest also raise a red flag over whether Indonesia can be a reliable carbon-trading partner. Carbon trading schemes are likely to be an important topic at the United Nation's Climate Change Conference, which begins December 7, 2009, in Copenhagen.

And what a nest of crap, huh?:

Indonesian NGOs: Even with LEI certification, APP paper products are unsustainable

-- Joint Press Release by KKI Warsi, FZS Indonesia Program, PKHS, Jikalahari, Walhi Riau, Walhi Jambi and WWF Riau -- 19 November 2009

JAMBI & PEKANBARU, INDONESIA – The recent certification of an Asia Pulp & Paper (APP)/Sinar Mas pulp plantation by the Indonesian Ecolabelling Institute (LEI) suggests that the LEI standards need to be strengthened, as APP products are not sustainable, a group of non-governmental organizations in Indonesia warned global paper buyers today.

APP is also owned by APRIL, check out their lovely site: APP: Care for tomorrow, we support actions for economic, social, and environmental sustainability.

And there's plenty more where that comes from.


Then there's always this hopeful democratic marketplace action to consider:

Green-Minded Staples Ends Ties With Asia Pulp & Paper

But on an international political scale, corporation vs nation state, we have this kind of back slapping between the good ol' insiders here in the US and APP/APRIL:

Asia Pulp & Paper commends US decision to reject dumping duty on China paper

Anti-dumping, Safeguards, Countervailing Duties

Anti-dumping suits, along with safeguards and countervailing measures, are tools for protecting domestic industries from surges of cheap foreign imports. Although the WTO strives to eliminate all trade barriers, it recognizes that nations require flexibility to adjust to economic shocks as multilateral agreements increasingly liberalize trade. Thus, these measures allow nations to temporarily protect their economies against fluctuations in trading patterns. Although anti-dumping, safeguards, and countervailing measures share an often uneasy relationship with the WTO’s core principles, many member nations consider them essential to fostering fair and free trade.

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Not sure which organizations signed the letter but there was no mention of "We hope...". The we hope appears to be from Patrick Anderson and or someone at WRM {World Rainforest Movement}.

The letter in question's content is:

To: Thomas Handoko, Director of RAPP

Re: Respecting indigenous peoples’ rights in the Kampar Peninsular

Dear Sir,

It has come to our attention that the Teluk Meranti community has rejected RAPP’s plans to develop Acacia pulpwood plantations that will impact the community’s customary territories on the Kampar Peninsular. In a letter to RAPP on 20 June, the Teluk Meranti community wrote that it has used and managed its customary forests on the Kampar Peninsular since long before Indonesia achieved independence, and that it rejects RAPP’s presence on its territory.

We note that in March 2007, the then Director of RAPP, Mr Rudi Fajar, informed an international meeting in Riau organized by The Forest Dialogue, that RAPP would respect the principle of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in establishing new plantation areas and resolving land conflicts with indigenous communities.

The right of indigenous peoples to FPIC, which is included in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, includes the right of indigenous peoples to reject planned developments that would affect their customary lands.

We urge you to respect the decision of the Teluk Meranti community, and to implement procedures in line with the principle of FPIC within your company.

Sincerely,

Marcus Colchester

Director, Forest Peoples Programme


Cc:
Sub district head (Camat) of Teluk Meranti
Communities of the Kampar Peninsular: Teluk Meranti, Teluk Binjai, Pulau Muda
Minister of Forestry, Republic of Indonesia
NGO’s of Riau and Indonesia

Media
Customers of RAPP…

The full letter of the 82 community members:

TELUK MERANTI COMMUNITY LETTER OF REJECTION TOWARDS RAPP COMPANY (APRIL)

Teluk Meranti, 20 June 2009

Regarding:

UPHOLDING TELUK MERANTI COMMUNITY RIGHTS

To the Honourable,

President Director of RAPP company (APRIL)

With this, the community of Teluk Meranti subdistrict, based on our needs to the land located across the river or land intended to become a part of your company’s operational area, declares that it: REJECTS THE PRESENCE OF THE RAPP COMPANY.

This is done with regard to the below considerations:

1. The land is to be retained for our grandchildren’s future
2. Experiences by other surrounding villages or areas where RAPP company has operated which have impacted negatively on the local community’s rights
3. It has caused loss of agricultural and horticultural land belonging to the community
4. The community will lose the source of its livelihood (economic, social and cultural) from the forest which will be converted to an industrial timber plantation

We, the community of Teluk Meranti, have inhabited and utilised this area in a wise and traditional way far preceeding Indonesia’s independence.

Thus concludes this rejection letter, made with great consideration so that unwanted problems will be avoided in the future.

Respectfully yours,

The community of Teluk Meranti

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Not sure why there is a confusion between RAPP {PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (RAPP)} which is owned by Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Limited, or APRIL and APP {Asia Pulp & Paper Co Ltd (APP)} which is "affiliated with" PT. Indah Kiat Pulp & Paper Corporation (IKPP) as their own web site indicates: Indah Kiat - INKP Stock Chart for PT. Indah Kiat Pulp & Paper Tbk.
Now both of these subdivisions have operations in the Sumatra's Riau province. As in for example:

MORE WORKERS TO LOSE JOBS IN INDONESIA'S FORESTRY SECTOR.
JAKARTA, Oct 22 Asia Pulse - PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (RAPP) and PT Indah Kiat Pulp and Paper (IKKP) plan to reduce their production capacity because of a shortage in the supply of basic material.

Yes, we have an example of other stakeholders that are affected by these actions and decisions.

Another incident happening recently in regards to this area of concern is:

Greenpeace activists leave Kampar peninsula Sunday, November 15, 2009 09:04
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Greenpeace activists --who set up a camp last month and sealed the heavy-duty equipment of PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (RAPP) in Kampar Peninsula, Riau, two days ago -- left the location on Saturday after police gave them until 6 pm to leave the place.

"Fifteen of the volunteers --who came there in protest against deforestation and peatland drainage-- have already left the camp while the other 35 are still packing their belongings," Southeast Asia Greenpeace forest campaigner Bustar Maitar said on Saturday evening.

He said Greenpeace would not stop its fight to protect forests in Riau and would continue to call for protection of Kampar Peninsula forest and exert pressure on the company that had cleared the natural forest.

However, according to latest negotiations the local police in Pelalawan had given them a security guarantee and until Sunday morning to leave.

Earlier, chief of the Pelalawan police resort Adj. Chief Coms. Ari Rachman called on them to leave the site and vacate the `Climate Protection Camp` as soon as possible around the peatland area.

The call was directly made by the Pelalawan police resort chief when he had a dialog with the locals who held a rally against the presence of the Greenpeace activists.

Rachaman said police would not take risk in maintaining the presence of the environmental activists in the area. He said he received orders from the Riau police chief to evacuate them in order to prevent physical clashes between the volunteers and local people.

Since the activists` presence, tension between groups of local people who were for and against the activity had also increased although it was believed it was the company who had incited local sentiment against the environmental activists.

Greenpeace`s action took place on the Kampar Peninsula on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, on Thursday, where Greenpeace has set up a `Climate Defenders` Camp`.
The activists locked themselves to three excavators, owned by Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL), one of Indonesia`s biggest pulp and paper producers, to prevent it destroying the rainforest to make way for tree plantations, grown to make pulp and paper for international customers, including UPM Kymmene.
UPM-Kymmene is one of the world`s leading forest industry groups and the leading producer of printing papers. It is a modern, efficient and focused forest industry company. It has production facilities in 15 countries and its main market areas are Europe and North America. UPM`s shares are listed on the stock exchange in Helsinki. UPM creates value from renewable and recyclable.

The activists decided to leave the area in an effort to prevent increasing tension among groups of local people.

"Greenpeace is in a position where it has to make a hard decision for the sake of the interest of the local people," Greenpeace forest campaigner Bustar Maitar said.

He added: "We are at a loss about what to do," he said. As an organization that shuns violence, he said, the organization did not want to see a communal conflict to happen after they had left.

Maitar believed that the company was behind all this and therefore his side had asked the police to follow it up.

"The license of PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (RAPP) is not complete and therefore the company`s action in clearing the forest is against the law. If the government acts as if it does not know it it means they are ignoring existing public norms," he said.
He said Greenpeace would also hand over the camp set up last month on the side of Kampar River to the local community.

It was reported on Friday that police have named 21 of the activists after they sealed the heavy-duty equipment of RAPP.

The 21 were among 33 Greenpeace activists detained at the Pelalawan police resort after they sealed the heavy-duty equipment in a peatland forest area in the peninsula on Thursday, their lawyer Susilaningtias said.

Twelve of the 33 Greenpeace activists are foreign nationals. They come from Brazil, Germany, Thailand, Spain and the Philippines.

Their lawyer said the 21 activists are charged with committing an unpleasant act under article 335 of the Criminal Code and violating a ban on entry into a company`s working area without a permit under article 551 of the code.

"They may be penalized under articles 335 and 551 of the Criminal Code. It was a RAPP employee who reported them to the police," Susilaningtias said.

However, police denied having arrested them. All the 21 suspects are from Indonesia.
Chief of the Pelalawan police resort Adj. Chief Coms. Ari Rachman denied that the police had detained tens of Greenpeace activists after they sealed the heavy-duty equipment.

"The police did not arrest but protected them after the local people had written to the Riau governor, the Riau provincial police and the Pelalawan police resort rejecting the presence of the Greenpeace activists," he said.(*)

COPYRIGHT © 2009

Now that is too funny!!!
They don't want no Neocolonialism, now do they? They don't seem to appreciate a bunch of eco-nuts running around their forests messing with it.

As far as the the "anti-dumping duties on coated free sheets (CFS) paper imported from China, Korea and Indonesia is a just and evidence-based decision" and that is exactly the decision that should have been decided. Some may not like the decision but that is besides the point as proving dumping has not been established in the least. Dumping is an economic thought and has no bearing on the environmental aspects of events.

There are other avenues of making stakeholders interests known...

godknows

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Anglo Platinum Bulldozes Sekuruwe Farmlands in South Africa

The indigenous community of Sekuruwe in Limpopo, South Africa, suffered a great loss at the hands of Anglo Platinum last week.

In the face of mounting protests, on December 3rd, company bulldozers destroyed the Sekuruwe’s last remaining farmland, what little they had left since their land rights were handed over to the company last year.

“This aggressive violation by the mining company is the latest development in a week of hostile action against the community on its remaining land, this after a year of systematic destruction of its most arable land, ” says Jubilee South Africa in a recent press statement.

“The community has repeatedly stated that they did NOT give consent for Anglo Platinum to use their land. Despite repeated requests and demands that Anglo Platinum stop working on their land until the dispute is settled, Anglo Platinum proceeded to destroy the community’s fields, and call the police to arrest anyone who attempts to go onto their land to protect their crops.”

However, for a short time it looked like Sekuruwe would be able to claim a well-earned victory. After protesting for days on end, a group of 200 villagers forced Anglo Platinum to scurry behind their fenced-off encampment, also Sekuruwe land. The move surely brought tears of joy to the protesters.

Unfortunately, by the time the Bulldozers arrived on December 3, and with the police ready to make their move, those tears dried up, and the villagers could do nothing but stand by and watch.

Despite the tragic loss, the South African community, one of several effected by platinum mining in Limpopo, isn’t prepared to simply pack up and leave. Not while the water is being poisoned their air polluted, and even more land threatened.

Anglo Platinum World Leader in Platinum
COMPANY PROFILE
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Anglo Platinum Limited is a member of the Anglo American plc group (see link below). Its shares are listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange Limited, with a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange and a listing of international depositary receipts for the company’s shares on the Brussels Bourse.

Anglo American PLC
Anglo American PLC (LSE: AAL, ) is a world-wide group of companies, originally founded in South Africa as a mining enterprise but now extending into other areas. Natural resources remains the focus of its operations. Its headquarters are in London, UK with its primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
Video:
The Triple Bottom Line Model gives weight to:

economic concerns,
social responsibility
environmental stewardship

Approximately 2:00 minutes: "The third strand is the environment because there's no good after becoming wealthy and meeting people's needs if we damage the environment in a way that prevents future generations from benefiting."

Operating Income: $10.116 billion (2007)
Country: England, UK
City: London
Net Income: $7.304 billion (2007)
Region: South Africa (Core Market)
Name: Anglo American PLC
Founded: 1999
Products: Ferrous metals, Platinum, Nonferrous metals, Coal, Gold, Base Metals, Industrial minerals
Type: Public (LSE: AAL)
No. of Employees: 162,000 (2007)
Key People: Cynthia Carroll (CEO)
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, (Chairman)
Revenue: $35.674 billion (2007)
Industry: Mining
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Notes:
Anglo Platinum’s Comments on the SAHRC’s mining related observations and recommendations

ANGLO PLATINUM EXHUMES GRAVES, BUT LEAVES HUMAN BONES AT SITESekuruwe, north of Mokopane, Limpopo

South African villagers take action against Anglo American subsidiary | Indigenous Peoples Links

South African Human Rights Commission Report Into Anglo Platinum And Affected Communities Around The PPL Mine, Limpopo

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The Lorax Was Wrong: Skyscrapers Are Green - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com

Worldchanging: Bright Green: Does City Living Trim Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
http://www.growingsensibly.org/cmapdfs/ ... ssions.pdf

Green Cities, Brown Suburbs by Edward L. Glaeser, City Journal Winter 2009

Fans of central planning might argue for a complicated tax-and-subsidy scheme that would induce people to move to greener acres. But such a scheme would be politically impossible and difficult to operate even if it were possible. Others may be drawn to a simple carbon tax, which would charge people for the social costs of their energy use. Like many economists, I find much to like in a carbon tax, but it won’t lead to good development decisions as long as the greenest parts of the country are banning new construction.

Before even considering carbon taxes, the country should rethink its land-use policies, which currently push people toward high-emissions areas and away from green ones. The chart below shows the relationship between estimated pounds of carbon dioxide emissions and the Wharton Residential Land Use Regulation Index, which is the gold-standard measure of barriers against local building in metropolitan areas. (I average across all places in the metropolitan area, weighting each place by its population, since the Wharton survey measures political jurisdictions, not metropolitan areas.)