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APRIL 2013

EDITOR: SAKURA SAUNDERS

CONTRIBUTORS: LUIS MANUEL CLAPS, CATHERINECOUMANS, XIMENA CUADRA, ARI EL FORNARI,NATALIE LOWREY, MARIE-EvE MARLEAU, ISABELORELLANA, SAKURA SAUNDERS & F RANCHEzASERRANO.

DESIGN: NATALIE LOWREY

COvER PHOTO: PEDRO IGNACIO GUzMAN, FROM LACERCA, WATCHES FROM A HILL THE CONSTRUCTION OFTHE EL LLAGAL TAILINGS POND. NEARLY COMPLETED, THEINDUSTRIAL RESERvOIR WILL HOLD THE TOXIC WASTEFROM BARRICK AND GOLDCORPS PUEBLO vIEJO OPENPIT GOLD MINE. COTU, SNCHEz RAMREz, DOMINICANREPUBLIC. APRIL 2012.PHOTO: JAMES A. RODRGUEz / MIMUNDO.ORG

THANKS: vICTORIA BARNET, TAYLOR CHELSEA,JESSICA DENYER, RYAN FRANKS, DANIELA

GUzMAN, ALEX HUNDERT, MEGAN KINCH,AMANDA LICKERS, DARIUS MIRSHAHI, MANDYSKINNER, TREY WINNEY, & DAvE vASEY.

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INTRODUCTIONAs Protest Barrick completes its sixth year o working

with communities impacted by Barrick Gold, we are pub-

lishing a dierent kind o alternative annual report. We

have noticed over the years that despite some o Barrick`s

major abuses coming into light, the company has been

able to maintain within select circles a reputation

or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Meanwhile,

around the world, Barricks name is still associated with

corruption, abuse and environmental harms.

his report intends to explain this disconnect. With

inormation provided or us by ront-line communities,

we will attempt to reconcile their truth with Barricks lies.

Luckily, throughout the years, Barrick has been caught

misrepresenting themselves, hiding inormation, and

engaging in cover-ups and acts o intimidation to hide

their human rights and environmental abuses. his

behaviour has improved Barricks image with the CSR

industry as much as it has emboldened movements

against Barricks corruption in the countries in which

they operate.

Interestingly, as the prices o Barricks shares have plum-

meted due to rising costs, lawsuits, and bad decision-mak-ing, their executives and board members still claim high

bonuses due to the companys CSR targets.1

We expect this report to be o interest to investors and

social justice advocates alike. Join us as we debunk

Barricks CSR programs and their socially responsible

image, revealing a pathological company ignoring the

warning signs o numerous conlicts across the globe.

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DEBUNKING BARRICKWHY WE CANT ALLOW THIS MINING GIANT TO REGULATE ITSELF

he greatest manmade disaster in history started as an

accounting error, and ended with the death o tens omillions. he story goes that ater the collectivization o

armland across China, local oicials sent exaggerated

reports o their success to the centre, claiming harvests

three or our times their true size. While cities claimed

large amounts o grain and ood was even sent overseas,

many rural areas o China starved. At the same time, Mao

trumpeted his Great Leap Forward and those who told

a dierent story were repressed and even killed.2

A dramatic story, or sure, but also one that illustrates

the dangers o sel-reporting coupled with arrogance in a

centralized bureaucratic system.

In a CEO Forum on Sustainable Development in early

March, Barricks CEO Jamie Sokalsky boasted the com-

panys new policy o tying 30% o executive bonuses to

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) indexes reporting

on themes such as health, community, environment, and

saety and security. We got skin in the game, Sokalsky

explained. And that cascades down towards other people

in the organization. hey also get evaluated on that as

well and they will take that into consideration when they

are making decisions about how to operate.3

Benign, or even laudable at irst glance, this policy instal ls

a structure that encourages rosy sel-reporting and the

implications on the ground can be disastrous.

Already, Barrick has been caught misreporting in their

environmental sel-audits. his February, the Environ-

mental Superintendent o Chile iled charges against Bar-

rick because the Pascua Lama project ailed to meet the

environmental conditions related to waste storage at the

mine site.4

Barrick iled a sel-report admitting that they

had breached their obligations, looking or a reduction

in the ine.

However, the sel-report did not meet the provision oaccurate, truthul and veriiable acts by the holder.5

he Environmental Superintendents charges were ac-

companied by three other charges this year rom the En-

vironmental Review Commission related to the compa-

nys glacier monitoring.6

In this particular region, the stakes are high. Glacial wa-

ter reserves provide water or 70,000 people7

downstream

in an otherwise arid area that depends on agriculture.

According to CEDHA, there are more than 100 glaciers

directly in the impact zone (within 10km) o the PascuaLama project.8

Meanwhile, Barrick only acknowledges three glaciers that

could be impacted (oro 1, oro 2, and Esperanza). More-

over, Barrick insists that these three glaciers are gla-

cierets or ice reservoirs rather than traditional glaciers,

and consequently their contribution to the water resource

o the Huasco Valley is considered to be insigniicant.9

Despite Barricks attempts to belittle concerns about the

health o Andean glaciers, minings impacts on these

water sources have become a major issue in both Chile

and Argentina. Even Barrick is quick to point out thatin Chile alone, Pascua-Lama is subject to more than 400

environmental permit conditions, which include explicit

protection or nearby glaciers.10

In Argentina, the Glacier

Protection law became an issue o national debate ater it

was unanimously voted in by Congress and then vetoed

by President Cristina Kirchner.11

What became known

throughout Argentina as the Barrick Veto mounted

popular pressure against the president, who eventual-

ly had to approve a slightly amended glacier protection

law in 2010.12

Barrick then argued that the law was un-

constitutional and was granted an injunction suspending

the application o the new law to their Valedero project.However, Barrick suered another legal deeat when the

94% APPROvAL?Barrick claims to hae 94% o the Huasco valleys

2,000 water users. Besides the act that there are ap

proximately 70,000 people in Chile who rely on wa

ter threatened by the Pascua Lama project, this 94%

support was only approed by 8 o the members o

the Water Rights Committees board o director. This

agreement has been challenged by the General Water Management Board (the DGA), ater it was already

agreed and signed without consulting the approxi

mately 2,000 irrigators;.

A ull critique o this agreement by Luis Faura, then

councilperson in Alto Del Carmen, can be ound at

http://protestbarrick.net/article.php?id=118.

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Argentinian Supreme Court issued an 8 page verdict in

July o last year, striking down Barricks argument and as-

serting that Barrick would have to abide by the new law.13

While Barrick likes to point to their legal restrictions as

proo that they wont destroy glaciers, they never mention

that they regularly violate the conditions o these restric-

tions. Even beore construction on Pascua Lama com-

menced, exploration activities caused damage to glaciers

rom contamination and dust, which covers glaciers and

causes them to absorb rather than relect the suns rays. In

2008, a 5 year-old report by the General Water Director-

ship (DGA) was inally published, showing that the oro

1, oro 2 and the Esperanza Glacier were already reduced

by 50-70% because o the dust rom Barricks exploration

activities.14

Again in 2010, the DGA reported that Barrick

was ailing to comply with strict transport rules designed

to prevent dust emission.15

In late 2012, a Chilean state

agency temporarily halted construction work at Barrick

Gold Corps Pascua Lama mine citing concerns about thehealth o workers due to excessive levels o dust.

16And

today, photos o oro 1 and oro 2 show that they are

completely covered with debris,17

and recent inspections

by armers and community leaders reveal that the oro

1 glacier has all but disappeared.18

As a result o this and

other pollution issues, a Chilean court suspended Pascua

Lama in April 2013 acting on a complaint rom Diaguita

Indigenous communities.19

Unortunately, the destruc-

tion o these resources will surely cost more to the sur-

rounding communities than the occasional ine, and it

will take more than a temporary construction injunction

to stop it.

Errors in Barricks sel-reporting are not conined to

Chile, either. In February o this year, the U.S. Envi-

ronmental Protection Agency orced Barrick to pay a

$618,000 settlement or ailing to correctly report toxic

chemical releases and waste management activities at the

companys Cortez, Ruby Hill and Bald Mountain mines.20

One month later in the Dominican Republic, Barrick

mislabeled the origin o a customs declaration, saying

that gold came rom the United States when in act the

gold was rom Dominican soil.21

he error, punishable by

twice the value o the cargo or $23 million in this case 22

is evidence that Barricks aulty sel-reporting can be

damaging to itsel as well as communities on the ground.

But what does Barricks sketchy sel-reporting mean in a

country that lacks the regulatory inrastructure and po-

litical will to hold Barrick accountable? ragically, this is

the case at their mine sites in anzania, where repression

is high and Barricks story never quite matches up to the

story on the ground.

ake, or instance, their North Mara mine in anzania.

Here, there have been two reports one by researchers

at the University o Dar es Salaam23

and the other rom

the Norwegian Church o Lie Sciences24

that have con-

irmed lie threatening amounts o arsenic in the water-

ways. Barrick responded25

to the report criticizing the

integrity o the science, to which the authors responded 26

with a detailed deence o their methodology. Meanwhile,

locals complain that polluted waterways poison them-

selves and their livestock.27

In 2009, a toxic spill at this mine site let many people

and livestock dead. News reports rom Thisdaysited 20

people and 150 cows dead28

, while Dow Jones one week

later repeated local reports that the deaths had climbed

to 30 people and 300 cattle.29

Ward authorities eventually

reported that 203 people became ill, 43 people died, and

1358 livestock died.30

Meanwhile, Barrick reported only

4 chemically-related wildlie mortalities or all o 2009 attheir North Mara site.

31With regards to the impact o the

spill, Barrick insists, no one died.32

Strangely, at the same time that Barrick denies sicknesses

and death due to mine chemicals, they blame villagers or

stealing the PVC lining33

at the mines waste pond. It

is completely ridiculous says undu Lissu, a member o

anzanian Parliament who has been working with com-

munities surrounding the North Mara mine since 2003.

Not a single soul has been charged o or convicted o

stealing the liners, but its a very useul propaganda tool.

Lissu explained, these are criminals, these are invaders,these trespassers, you know? No one talks about the his-

tory how did these people become trespassers on their

own lands. What happened to their arms? It becomes a

very useul ploy to delect attention rom the corporate

brutality against the community.34

Despite Barricks denials o health issues related to the

waste pond, in January o this year, anzanias National

Environment Management Council (NEMC) ordered the

company to close its pit reuse acility at North Mara due

to toxic leakages and the contamination o local water

sources.35

In addition to denying scientiic reports about water con-

tamination, Barrick also claims that skin ailments that

locals claimed were related to the toxic spill in 2009 were

not a result o contaminated water. Barrick bases their ev-

idence on a South Arican Dermatologist who made an

assessment based on photos that the company provided.36

However, according to Warren Bell o Canadian Asso-

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ciation o Physicians or the Environment, a visual in-

spection o a rash is meaningless without a knowledge

o the process that brought it into existence. Almost all

environmental exposures are conirmed by history, and

only secondarily by appearance.37

Meanwhile, according

to Chacha Wambura o Foundation Help, who did exten-

sive interviews in the communities surrounding the mine

according to [the people with the skin conditions], their

neighbours, relatives and their local leaders, the rashesdeveloped ater using the water. He ound the victims

in two villages 5-7km downstream38

, and several human

rights advocates have since visited them there.39

Mr. Wambura posted two o the victims photos along-

side their stories to his blog in 2010. In response, Barrick

threatened a lawsuit against Mr. Wambura unless he apol-

ogized or making his blog post and turned the victims

to the government authorities or medical examination.

Barricks legal notice insisted that the two people did not

come rom villages downstream.40

Alongside legal threats, North Mara is known or its high

level o militarized repression. Small scale miners are shot

at, beat up, detained and even killed with regularity by

mine security and police.41

his point is most clearly illustrated when you look at the

atermath o the 2011 massacre o ive locals accused o

invading the mine site (see sidebox his is what impuni-ty looks like). MP undu Lissu, who traveled to arime

ollowing the killings, was himsel beat and arrested by

the police, along with seven others.42

arime is irst in

this kind o intimidation and violence, undu explained

in an interview43

recalling the incident. State violence

against the community is unprecedented. You cant see

that kind o violence rom the government anywhere in

this country... its because o the mine. It has a history but

the mine has exacerbated the situation.44

BARRICK DENIES SKINAILMENTS ARE A RESULTOF CONTAMINATED WATERBY A TOXIC SPILL ATITS NORTH MARA MINEIN TANzANIA IN 2009.PHOTGRAPHER ALLANLISSNER IS ONE OF THEMANY PEOPLE WHO HAvEvISITED MAMA OTAIGO INHER vILLAGE DOWNSTREAMFROM THE MINE. PHOTO:ALLAN LISSNER.NET

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THIS IS WHAT IMPUNITY LOOKS LIKE48

Following the 2011 massacre o e locals at the North

Mara mine, MP Tundu Lissu traeled to the commu

nity ollowing the killings to ensure that a proper

postmortem examination would be conducted. The

ollowing day, the community planned an openair

uneral serice something that the police wanted to

aoid. Tundu began to hear rumours that the police

were planning to steal the bodies to preent the pub

lic mourning, so he gathered a group o 30 people to

sleep outside the morgue. That night, around 10pm,

the police attacked them.

They had me under their boots or something like 40

minutes while someone was standing literally on my

neck, another one on my eet, and another one on my

ribs, Tundu recalled. We were lying on the truck, 8 o

us. It was horrible, absolutely horrible.

Tundu woke up the next morning in a cell where the

walls had lots o blood on them. He was then trans

erred to Tarime prison, where he heard lots o stories

o people being tortured by the police. The kind o

stories they were telling just, horror, horror stories, he

insisted.

When asked why the police would attack a member

o parliament like that, Tundu explained, Thats the

thinking, i we can do this to a member o parliament,

think o what well do to you? So you beat up an MP in

order to send a message to lesser mortals that ... i an

MP can be humiliated like this in public then what hap

pens to those o us who dont hae any name?

Barrick admitted to the killings at the mine, but reused

to take responsibility or the police action, despite the act

that they employ many police to guard their mine. his

is a police matter and concerns how the anzanian police

interact with the community. Arican Barrick Gold does

not have any control or inluence over police in this re-

spect, the company said in an email.45

Again and again, Barricks version o the acts runs in di-

rect contradiction to the stories that people tell on the

ground. hey have proven themselves as a bad aith actor

in their relationships with communities, yet they contin-

ue to project an image o responsibility, which is accepted

at ace value rom so-called corporate social responsibil-

ity advocates and sustainability indexes46

. Until Barricks

lies are met with consequences greater than small ines,

the communities surrounding Barricks mines will con-

tinue to suer the triple consequence o environmental

mismanagement, human rights abuse, and the repression

o truth. How many more passes will Barrick receive aspopular pressure mounts against the mining o this large-

ly useless luxury? As consciousness spreads about the

inherent consequences o open-pit gold mining, one can

only predict that society will have less tolerance towards

this unnecessary evil.

CAUGHT IN A COvERUP47

On May 9, 2009, ollowing heay rains, runo water

rom a containment pond began owing into the Tig

ite Rier in the Tarime district in the north o Tanania.villagers near Barricks North Mara mine reported that

the water had turned a reddish colour. Many deaths o

people and liestock were attributed to this toxic spill,

though Barrick categorically denied that anyone died.

Tananian deputy minister or Home Aairs Khamisi

Kagasheki isited the area and witnessed the seepage

o acid into rier Tigite. He accused Barrick o delib

erately downplaying the matter ater Barrick ofcials

had taken Mr. Kagasheki on a tour o what they said

had been impacted areas, to proe that the area was

cleaned and that there were no urther issues with pol

lution.

Later, the Ministers car was stopped by illagers who

insisted on showing him the actual aected areas. I

hae been shocked with what I hae seen and lies by

Barrick ofcials hae really annoyed me. I am ery sor

ry, he told a meeting o local leaders and illagers in

the area ater they showed him the areas aected by

the leakage.

NORTH MARAMINE IN TANzANIA.

PHOTO: ALLANLISSNER.NET

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EXCERPT ROMINA PICOLOTTI FORMER ENvIRONMENT MINISTEROF ARGENTINA TO THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON FOREIGNAFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL DEvELOPMENT, NOvEMBER 200949

You are obviously aware o the very large mining ventures

run by the Canadian company Barrick Gold in Argenti-

na and Chile. Perhaps you know that Barricks Argentina

gold mining venture is one o the largest mining proj-

ects in the world. Unortunately, I must say, that ar rom

being the beacon and model o sustainable mining that

we would hope or in the 21st century, Barrick Gold is a

modern example o how powerul economic giants can

unscrupulously manipulate local politics and skirt envi-

ronmental and social controls to maximize proit, mini-

mize investment risk, and ignore local culture and com-

munities to the detriment o greater global objectives o

sustainable development.

...

I approached Barrick in 2007 as Environment Secretary,

to exercise my jurisdictional authority over the San Guill-

ermo Biosphere Reserve (a UNESCO site), a national

park in the Province o San Juan, where Barricks Velade-

ro mine is located, with the objective o installing con-

tamination measuring units throughout the area. Barrick

reused to give my teams access to the lands in their min-

ing territory and stalled all subsequent eorts to acilitate

such entry, until weather conditions changed so drastical-

ly (in the early winter months) that my teams work in the

area was no longer physically possible.

I had engaged with provincial and national authorities to

attempt to reorm the mining code and place the moni-

toring and control o impacts o mining activities with-

in the jurisdiction o the Secretary o the Environment.

Barrick opposed such participation o Argentinas envi-

ronment institutions and lobbied provincial and national

governments strongly to obstruct such an eort, main-

taining jurisdiction o mining operations (and their im-

pacts) solely within mining agencies.

In 2008, Congress unanimously passed a Glacier Pro-

tection Law. he new glacier law would have prohibited

mining on, under, or in glacier perimeters, somethingthat probably sounds quite reasonable to Canadians as

you come rom one o the most glacier-rich regions o

the world. So do we. Well, Barrick did not want a glacier

protection law to limit their mining prospects, and sub-

sequently pressured the President into vetoing the law. I

the President would not veto the law, Barrick would work

to block other inancial bills that were critical to stabi-

lizing the Argentine economy during the global inancial

crisis. he President capitulated to Barricks pressure and

vetoed the bill, which has euphemistically become known

as the Barrick veto. his was not the only time Barrick

was successul in reversing progressive environmental

laws and policy within Argentina.

Barrick has pushed orward with several controversial

mining projects in Argentina and in the region, and time

and time again shows that the company acts in bad aith

with respect to social and environmental community

concerns that such large mining interests entail. One o

Barricks gold mining ventures called Pascua Lama (a

bi-national project within Chilean and Argentine terri-

tories) occurs right on top o ive glaciers. Unbelievably,Barrick had conveniently ailed to mention this act in its

original EIAs to either Argentine or Chilean environmen-

tal authorities. It was only ater communities protested

this site choice, and pointed out the presence o glaciers,

that Barrick admitted that indeed, its mining venture was

taking place on at least ive glaciers. However, by then,

and only rom prospecting impacts, much o the glaciers

had already been severely impacted by Barricks explo-

ration. Barricks Pascua Lama project is one o the most

controversial and opposed projects in the region. here

is strong resistance rom local Indigenous and arming

communities, greatly concerned with water management

and availability, contamination, and impacts to natural

habitat and reserves.

My riends, let me be clear, I am not against mining.

Many mining projects are key to our evolution as modern

societies. here are many metals right here in this room

that we cannot live without and that are a product o very

needed and responsible mining investments. However,

my goal as Secretary o the Environment o Argentina and

as a lietime global advocate o sustainable development

was, and is, to promote airness, equity, rationality, re-

sponsibility and accountability in corporate investments.

Mining is a priority and an integral part o the Argentine,Canadian, and global economy; however, we must pro-

ceed with mining in a sustainable way. Companies like

Barrick have shown to be systematically irresponsible.

hey portray a dark side o global economic politics and

have shown time and time again that they are uninter-

ested in balanced approaches to development. hey only

provided rhetoric and lip service to the sustainable de-

velopment objectives that both o our countries proess.

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WIRADJURIFIGHT TO THE BITTER ENDBarrick Gold owns and operates nine mines in Austra-

lia, the most controversial is the Cowal Gold Project sit-

uated in Lake Cowal, central New South Wales (NSW).

Lake Cowal is the largest inland lake in NSW, a wetland

o national and international signiicance providing hab-

itat or many threatened species and birds listed under

the International Convention on Wetlands (the Ramsar

Convention)50

. It is the Sacred Heartland o the Wirad-

juri Nation who have lived on and around the lake or

thousands upon thousands o years.

Since 2001, the Mooka and Kalara United Families

within the Wiradjuri Nation have waged a protracted

and bitter legal battle in the Federal and NSW Land and

Environment Courts to stop Barrick rom developing and

operating an open-pit cyanide leach gold mine and to

assert Wiradjuri sovereignty that has never been ceded.

he Court challenges ocused on the validity o consents

issued by the NSW Government permitting Barrick to

destroy all cultural heritage sites at Lake Cowal, and on

the protection o Wiradjuri Native itle rights.

he name Wiradjuri means, people o the three rivers

and traditionally these rivers, the Macquarie, Lachlan and

Murrumbidgee, were the primary source o ood or the

Wiradjuri people. A number o customs are unique to the

Wiradjuri communities with one o the most signiicant

being the marking on trees to signiy the burial place o

a Wiradjuri person. Dozens o these scar trees that shel-

tered Wiradjuri people around Lake Cowal rom the ele-

ments or hundreds o years and held historic markings

o generations were destroyed by Barrick. housands o

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SUPPORTING THE DETERMINATIONOF DIAGUITA?

The Diaguita Huascoaltinos Indigenous and Agricul

tural community are the closest neighbours to the

Pascua Lama project. They are the direct heirs o the

Natie People o Huasco Alto and consist o 250 ami

lies o Indigenous peasants, armers and herders. As a

community, they remained organied ater the Span

ish colony in Huasco valley and continue to hae title

to their lands. In 2006, they decided to make their com

munity a natural and cultural resere.

The Diaguita Huascoaltinos claim that Barrick seied

through a series o raudulent transers 124,000

acres o their land in 1998. Additionally, they claim that

the State o Chile approed the Pascua Lama project

in 2001 without the permission o their community.64

This iolation o their seldetermination is the basis or

a case that the Diaguita hae against Chile in the In

terAmerican Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).65

The complaint, which was led in 2007 and accepted inFebruary 2010, has already had its rst hearing in Oc

tober 2011. The act that is has been admitted by the

Commission reeals that the Diaguita hae exhausted

all local remedies (within Chile) to seek justice.

Howeer, despite this case, alongside a 2005 complaint

led with the Organiation o American States (OAS),

a lawsuit led in 2001, ormal complaints, two letters

written by Diaguita leadership to Barrick and the Pres

ident Bachelet o Chile in 2006, as well as numerous

other legal challenges, Barrick glosses oer the antago

nistic relationship with their closet neighbours. In act,

in their April 2009 edition o their CSR magaine Beyond Borders, Barrick includes an article entitled The

Diaguita o Chile: Supporting the determination o an

Indigenous people. The irony was not lost on Sergio

Campusano, elected president o the Diaguita Huas

coaltinos since 2005, who is pictured opposite with

Barricks magaine at a Parliamentary Press conerence

in 2009, when he traeled to Canada to tell Canadians

the truth about Pascua Lama.

EvILLE CHAPPY WILLIAMS, WIRADJURI TRADITIONAL OWNER (ABOvE} AND SERGIO CAMPUSA NO, ELECTEDRESIDENT OF THE DIAGUITA HUASCOALTINOS (BELOW) READING BARRICK CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBIITYAGAzINE. PHOTO: ALLAN LISSNER.NET

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PROFILESURvIvING THE PIERINA MINETHE MARINAYOC COMMUNITY AND ITS STRUGGLEFOR CLEAN WATER IN THE ANDES

On September 19, 2012 at 3:30 PM, about a hundred pro-testers rom the Marinayoc Community, a close neigh-

bour o Barricks Pierina gold and silver mine, marched

through their lands and gathered at the mines main gate

known as Bravo 22. hey demanded that Barrick ulill its

promises to provide the community with resh and clean

water. It seemed reasonable, as the massive open pit and

other inrastructure built by the oronto-based company

both destroyed the mountain as well as its iltraciones

[iltrations], the water sources that used to provide or

their consumption and crops in the dry season.

While they were protesting at the gate, the police - broughtby Barrick to protect their installations - ired gas bombs.

he protestors dispersed down the hill while the police

chased them and attacked them with shotguns. Nemesio

Poma Rosales (55) was wounded and taken into the com-

pany acilities where he later died. His body was released

by Barrick to the local morgue in Jangas - the capital o the

district - the next day at 2AM. According to Lima-based

newspaper La Republica, Edith Poma denounced that

her ather Nemesio was taken alive to the mine medical

post where, she airmed, he bled to death.66

Alejandro oms Rosales Chvez (45) was wounded in

his back by bullet splinters while he was escaping the gas.

Meanwhile, Eulogio Rosas Julca (23), Marcelina Nolasco

Albina (37), Agripina Lucas Rosas (40), Rolando Nolas-

co Albino (22) and Gilberto Norabuena (28) all suered

injuries.

A preliminary investigation o what happened that day at

the Bravo 22 gate conducted by the Fiscal Roland Martn

Deza states that the community members entered the

mine area shouting and throwing stones at the police andthree policeman were injured. Fiscal Deza also says that

there were only eight policemen at the gate. However, ac-

cording to Jorge Castromonte, a leader o the Marinayoc

Community, there were many more policemen. Despite

the act that the National Cabinet chie Juan Jimenez de-

clared that an investigation will be launched [...] inves-

tigate and penalize, that is what we are going to do67

the

community does not trust the regional judicial system,

in which the mining company has a strong hand: more

than 30 community members have been charged with

trespassing or sedition.

Between the time that protests started on September 14th

and the clashes that occurred on the 19th, the compa-

ny had over 4 days to prepare a solution that could have

prevented the use o lethal orce; they ailed. It is as i

they were determined to deend their gold with ire arms

against unarmed people. Since the September clashes, the

complete perimeter o the mine has been reinorced with

barbed wire. It is like they are preparing or a war de-

nounces Castromonte. A day ater the violence at Pieri-

na, Human Rights Watch issued an open letter to Ollanta

Humala expressing concern over the apparently unwar-

ranted use o lethal orce being employed by Peruvian se-curity orces during conrontations with protesters.

68

A Mesa de Dilogo [Dialogue able] between the Mari-

nayoc Community and Barrick is being sponsored by the

central government in Lima and is scheduled to begin this

month. In the last year the national government has in-

creased its capacity to intervene in mining conlict areas.

Last year the Humala administration received nearly $4.9

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million rom the Canadian government toward Conlict

Management and Prevention in the Extractive Sector.69

It

is yet to be seen whether these new mechanisms will con-

tribute to understanding and peaceul solutions or the

Marinayoc communitys legitimate claims, or how they

can coexist with the mining companys use o lethal orce

in dealing with local protests.

he issue of water

he Pierina mine is located in the Andean Cordillera in

the Department o Ancash, Jangas district, in north-cen-

tral Peru, some 10 kilometres northwest o the city o

Huaraz at an altitude o approximately 4,100 metres. A-

ter a two year construction phase the operation began in

November 1998. It has produced over 3.5 million ounces

o gold at an average cash cost o US$51/oz.70

With a privileged view o the Huascaran the highest

mountain in the country Marinayoc is a great place that

has provided or the needs o the Quechua Indigenouspeople who have lived there or generations. But now, the

water cycle o which the Marinayoc Community depends

on has been disrupted by the mine. Acknowledging this,

Barrick Gold oered to treat the water in a puriication

plant beore its released rom the mine to the community.

But as a mine oicial recognizes the community does

not want to use water that comes rom the mine, even

though its treated and certiied.71

Ever since the company cheated them by buying their

lands or the project, the community does not believe any

o Barricks promises and asks: i we accept the company

proposal, who is going to treat the water ater the gold

is exhausted and Barrick is gone? Instead o depending

on a water treatment plant run by Barrick, the commu-

nity proposed that resh water should be pumped rom

the rivers and streams o the neighbouring mountain val-

ley, the Cordillera Blanca (White Range), so that they can

avoid being dependent on Barrick or their water.

Matthew Himley, a scholar rom Illinois State Universi-

ty quoted a person living near the mine in 2010 stating

that, [Barricks subsidiary at Pierina] hasnt made good

on anything. hey oered a lot. hey were just making us

believe things. Ater that nothing. Now, to get any littlething or the village, we go to them begging, imploring.

And how much wealth are they availing themselves o?

As the water treatment plant remains on stand by, a truck

carries water every day rom a secure source up to the

treatment plant, releasing it to the Marinayoc Communi-

ty. How long will this solution last? asks Castromonte.

A SURvIvOROn September 19 2012, Alejandro Toms Rosales

Che marched to the Pierina mines Brao 22 gate

to demand Barrick Gold ulll its promises to proideclean water to the Marinayoc Community. When the

police started shooting gas bombs, many ran away, in

cluding Alejandro. He had made it some twenty steps

down the hill when he was wounded in his back by

bullet splinters. Alejandro was then taken to a clinic

in Huara where ater three operations the doctors

saed his lie.

Alejandros medical treatment was proided by Bar

rick in exchange o him signing an agreement denying

that Barrick was in any way responsible or the eents

that resulted in his shooting, afrming that the com

pany was helping him out o social responsibility.

But ater six months o the Brao 22 gate incident, the

let side o his body remains ery weak and he cant

work. Alejandro is a sur ior. There are still some bullet

splinters in his lier that they cant take out. The lier

might manage to release the splinters by itsel in the

uture, doctors say. Meanwhile, Alejando neer spoke

to a lawyer about his rights outside o Lucinda visscher

Butrn, Barricks Community Relations Manager.

ALEJANDRO TOMS ROSALES CHvEzPHOTO: LUIS MANUELCLAPS

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WORLD vISIONBARRICKS PARTNER IN PERU

World vision has been receiing money rom Barrick Gold to car

ry out projects at controersial Barrick mines in Peru since 2003.

The rst one million dollar partnership was or projects at the

conictridden Pierina mine.72 This was ollowed in 2007 by an

additional $1.3million or projects at Barricks equally controer

sial Lagunas Norte mine.73 In 2011, Canadas international deel

opment agency (CIDA) agreed to subsidie the cost o Barricks

corporate social responsibility projects at its new site in Quiru

ilca, Peru, which is already acing serious local opposition.74 Bar

ricks partnership with World vision in Quiruilca is supported by

$500,000 in Canadian tax dollars. At each o these Barrick mines

local opposition is rooted in peoples eorts to deend their basic

human rights, to protect their water resources, to protect sus

tainable lielihoods and to pursue their own seldetermined

deelopment paths.

World vision deends its decision to accept Barricks money or

projects at mines that local people oppose: Each opportunity isrigorously debated based on our stringent best practice policies,

alues and goals.75 It is unclear just what these policies, alues

and goals are, but it is clear that World vision is not speaking out

publicly about the damage Barricks mines are doing to the basis

or local deelopment, such as access to clean water. Nor is World

vision apparently listening to oices o local Indigenous leaders

such as Miguel Palacin who says:

Unortunately, Canadian mining companies have a bad track re-

cord in our countries, where companies such as Barrick Gold are the

source o many conicts because o the dispossession o lands, de-

struction o water sources, and the ignoring o international rights

(ILO Convention 169, the UN Declaration on Rights o Indigenous

Peoples, among others), that lead to multiple environmental and

social impacts on our communities.(...) So or these reasons we ask

that you, World Vision Canada/Barrick Gold/CIDA, reuse to take any

part in this development policy, and instead that you take responsi-

bility to ensure that Canadian companies respect, and demand that

States respect, the rights o the Indigenous peoples afected beore

anyone seeks mining concessions in our countries.76

World vision, together with other major Canadian deelopment

NGOs such as Plan Canada, Care and WUSC, and major Canadian

mining companies such as Barrick, Goldcorp, HudBay and Kinross

are members o a orum called the Deonshire Initiatie.77 The

Deonshire Initiatie was started in March o 2007 at the Munk

Centre or International Studies at the Uniersity o Toronto (located at 1 Deonshire Place). Barrick Golds Peter Sinclair is on

the steering committee o the Deonshire Initiatie.

BARRICKS FAILED WATER TREATMENTPLANT FOR THE MARINAYOCCOMMUNITY AT PIERINA. PHOTO:LUIS MANUALCLAPS

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TIMELINEA BAD YEAR FOR BARRICK

July 3, 2012 Te Argentinian Supreme Court re-

versed Barricks preliminary injunctions that have

blocked key parts o a glacier protection law rom

being applied to their mining operations. Te lawprotecting glaciers now applies to Barrick Gold,

casting doubt on the viability on the project.78

July 2012 - Nixon Mangape (Independent) de-

eats Philip Kikala (Peoples National Congress) to

become Lagaip-Porgeras representative in PapuaNew Guineas National Parliament.79 In 2009, Bar-

rick-supported police burnt down the homes o his

immediate amily in Wuangima village, adjacent to

Barricks mine.80 In 2010, mine security shot Man-

gape in the leg with a rubber bullet as he joined a

amily who had just had their loved one killed by

mine security.81 As a member o Parliament, Hon.

Mangape brings up the issues o on-going abuses at

Barricks mine and pushes or the resettlement o

his people outside o the Special Mining Lease area.

Aug 4, 2012 - A group o 23 contract workers oc-

cupies the San Ambrosio Church in Vallenar, cap-

ital o the northern Chilean province o Huasco, to

protest labour conditions at Barricks Pascua Lama

mine. Raael Castillo, the vice president o a work-

ers group, told Radio Bo Bo that workers die every

year or lack o medical attention at the site.82

Aug 28, 2012 - Chiles Supreme Court strikes down

the planned 2,100-megawatt, $5 billion Castilla

thermoelectric power plant project citing environ-

mental concerns.83 Barricks Pascua Lama mine was

to be supplied with power rom that project, which

may result in additional delays and costs.

Sept 1, 2012 - Paulo Sarya (26) and Rodgers Mwi-

ta (18), locals rom villages surrounding Barricks

North Mara mine in anzania, are shot dead by

North Mara police orce aer a reported 800-10,000

people raided the mine site. Both were shot dead

while in the mine pit, another local was seriously

injured and taken to the hospital.84 Sept 3, 2012 - Eight subsidiaries o Barrick Gold

are ned a total $127,000 or ailing to lodge doc-uments with the Australian Securities and Invest-

ments Commission.85Sept 20, 2012 - One person died and our were in-

jured when police clashed with protesters at the en-

trance o Barricks Pierina mine in Peru.86

Sept 28, 2012 - At least 25 people were injured by

shotgun re in the village o La Cabirma in the

Dominican Republic amid exchange o gunre be-

tween police and protesters demanding that Bar-

rick hire more local workers or their Pueblo Viejo

mine.87

Oct 4, 2013 - A Chilean appeals court accepts to

consider an injunction against Canadas Barrick

Gold, in relation to Indigenous Diaguita communi-

ties concerned with damage to glaciers. Tis case is

eventually succeeds in orcing Barrick to stop work

on the project.88Oct 31, 2012 - Chiles National Geology and Min-ing Service (Sernageomin) ordered the work sus-

pension at the Pascua Lama site aer its inspectors

ound unsae levels o ne particles in the air at the

mine; a report blamed incorrect technical moni-

toring o the earth being excavated.89Nov 2, 2012 - Barrick Golds CEO, Jamie Sokalsky,

announced yet another jump in the estimated capi-

tal costs o the Pascua-Lama mine, rom less than $1

billion in 1997, to $3 billion in 2009, to $8 billion in

July, to $8.5 billion now.90

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Nov 9, 2012 - Chibwa Ghati Muarembera (20), a

resident o Kiwanja Village in arime District is shot

dead by police aer allegedly raiding Barricks North

Mara mine with 4000 people.91Nov 10, 2012 - Citing rising operating costs, Barrick

Gold cancels the Homestake Retiree Medical Plan,

leaving about 1,000 retirees without the benet.

Cara Horton, benets manager with Barrick, reveals

that the Homestake Retiree Medical Plan was not a

union-negotiated plan. Tereore, she says, Barrick

is ully within their rights to cancel it.92

Jan 16, 2013 - Property titles were issued in Valle-

nar, Chile by Mines Commissioner Paulo Cortes

Olgun that grant sole legal jurisdiction over the

Pascua Mine area concessions and titles to Jorge

Lopehanda o Mountainstar Gold Inc.93 According

to Chilean media outlet El Ciudadano, the Commis-

sioner also established that Amarillos North (12,850

acres) and Amarillos South (8,400 acres) have been

Lopehandas property since 1996.94

Jan 2013 anzanias National Environment Man-

agement Council (NEMC) orders Barrick to close its

pit reuse acility in North Mara due to toxic leak-

ages and the contamination o local water sources.95

Jan. 9 2013 Stanley Kawambu is shot at, beat, and

le to die in a cell by police in Yanzakale, Porgera in

Papua New Guinea.96

Jan 30, 2013 Mining Watch, Rights & Account-

ability in Development, and EarthRights Interna-

tional release a scathing critique o Barricks gang

rape remediation program in Papua New Guinea,

which orces victims to sign away uture rights to

sue in exchange or receiving remedy.97

Feb 6, 2013 - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

orces Barrick to pay a $618,000 settlement or ail-

ing to correctly report toxic chemical releases and

waste management activities at the companys Cor-

tez, Ruby Hill, and Bald Mountain mines.98

Feb 13, 2013 - Arica Barrick orecasts production

would shrink or a h straight year and says it will

ocus on cutting soaring costs, aer talks collapsed

with China National Gold over a possible takeover

o the rm.99

Feb 14, 2013 - Barrick takes a $3 billion dollar write-

down on a Zambian Copper mine it bought in 2011.

Te write-down was twice as big as we expected,

Pawel Rajszel, an analyst at Veritas Investment Re-

search in oronto. Tey denitely didnt do their

due diligence.100

Feb 21, 2013 - Chiles environmental commission

nes Barrick 3000 UM (US$256,518) or irregu-

larities and pollution with respect to their glacier

monitoring plan.102

Feb 21, 2013 Te road to Barricks Laguna Norte

mine in Peru blocked by 200 protesters or six daysover jobs, wages, and water supplies in the area.101

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THE DOMINICAN REPUBLICPOPULAR MOvEMENT GROWING AGAINST BARRICK GOLD

NATALIO GLvEz SANTO, 17, FROM LA CERCA, HOLDS

A COCOA POD FROM THE LOCAL TREES. BARRICK AND

GOLDCORPS PUEBLO vIEJO OPENPIT GOLD MINE

THREATENS THE COCOABEAN PRODUCING COMMUNITY

OF LA CERCA. COTU, SNCHEz RAMREz, DOMINICAN

REPUBLIC. APRIL 2012. PHOTO: JAMES A. RODRGUEz /

MIMUNDO.ORG

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A popular movement is growing in the Dominican Re-

public where Barrick and Goldcorps Pueblo Viejo mine

just started commercial production in January o this

year. Already the Local Conederation o Agricultur-

al and Poultry Producers (CONFENAGRO), with over

3,000 members, rallied on April 12 to protest the contam-

ination o water sources.108

We the national producers o rice, poultry, coee, co-

coa, milk, pork, vegetables, bananas, mangoes, and eggs

among others, and which create jobs and riches through-

out the country, we just cant old our arms Mr. Eric

Rivero, leader o CONFENAGRO, said at a press coner-

ence on April 9.109 He explained that ood producers in

the country had suered losses amounting to millions o

Dominican pesos, rom deaths o animals due to contam-

inated waters caused by the Pueblo Viejo mine.

Protests against Barricks Pueblo Viejo mine have become

commonplace now that it has been widely publicized that

Barricks contract with the DR government gives only 3cents or every dollar that Barrick takes out o the coun-

try. Last Februry, hundreds o Dominicans marched on

the Canadian embassy in DR demanding a revision o the

contract.110

On April 28, a march in Cotu, the closest city to Barricks

mine, is expected to draw on more than 3,000 people rep-

resenting dierent groups. he protestors will be com-

posed o wide sectors o Dominican society including he

Broad Front o Peoples Struggle (FALPO), cattlemens as-

sociation, armers association, Catholic and Evangelical

churches rom the region, students movements, and pop-ulations rom the surrounding communities o the Cotu

area. Among the protest leaders are Catholic popular

priests Father Rogelio Cruz, and Fathers Nino and oni

Ramos.

Prior to this mobilization, communities submitted peti-

tions to Barrick. heir list o grievances and demands,

including: the re-location o our communities adjacent

to the mining areas (El Naranjo, La Pinita, La Cerca, and

Las Lagunas), payments or right o way usage rom lands

used by the mine, a water supply system which eeds rom

the regional Hatillo Dam Reservoir, and payments or its

water consumption by the company. Payments and strict-er environmental controls o gravel materials extraction

rom the Yuna River basin, which is currently being done

indiscriminately by the mines sub-contractors, in vio-

lation o Dominican environmental law and non-com-

pliance with its own CSR. Better job opportunities or

inhabitants o the Sanchez Ramirez province. he or-

mation o a joint environmental monitoring team, which

includes dwellers rom the region. Also, the community

is requesting an investment policy to improve quality o

lie in the area.

On April 15, the Dominican Chamber o Deputies Per-

manent Energy Commission started studies to revise thecontract between the Dominican State and Barrick Gold.

According to Noticia Libre, the Resolution authored by

Deputy Carlos Gabriel Garcia, pursues that the (Domin-

ican) State obtains 50 percent o the beneits o exploita-

tion done by the mining company company (BG/GC), in

Pueblo Viejo, Cotu.111

Regarding the recent withholdings and inspections o

Barrick shipments by Dominican customs, protest orga-

nizers request that Barrick pay its air share o customs

duty, and that these revenues be used or economic devel-

opment and the eradication o poverty.

Protest organizer Andino Jose Marte says that the protest

will march on the ront entrance o the Pueblo Viejo mine,

ending with a vigil with cultural and musical groups. 112

THE HEADQUARTERS FOR THE COTU CHAPTER OF

THE CACAO PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION FROM THE

DEPARTMENT OF SNCHEz RAMREz HAS SUFFERED

SIGNIFICANT STRUCTURAL DAMAGE DUE TO THE CONSTANT

DETONATIONS, TUNNEL PERFORATIONS AND HEAvY TRAFFIC

FROM THE NEIGHBORING MINE. BARRICK AND GOLDCORPS

PUEBLO vIEJO OPENPIT GOLD MINE THREATENS THE

COCOABEAN PRODUCING COMMUNITY OF LA CERCA. COTU,

SNCHEz RAMREz, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. APRIL 2012.

PHOTO: JAMES A. RODRGUEz / MIMUNDO.ORG

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In May 2009, Jethro ulin was interviewed on the CBCsAs

it Happens, reporting about the act that over 300 houses

were burnt down by police next to Barricks Porgera Mine

in Papua New Guinea (PNG). he news hit the ront page

o newspapers in PNG, citing the Jethros interviews rom

North America. Even the Sydney Morning Herald the

largest newspaper in Australia ran an entire series113 o

eature articles on the Porgera situation, while Amnesty

International114 and the Coalition on Housing Rights and

Evictions115 both made public statements condemning the

house burnings.

Surprisingly, Barrick admitted that It [was their] un-

derstanding that the police tore down approximately 50

temporary shacks,116 never apologizing or this gross hu-

man rights abuse or their role in provoking it. According

to a ollow-up report by Amnesty International, during

the evictions three women were reportedly raped, people

were beaten, and there was no prior warning or resettle-

ment plan in place.117

However, the most shocking story that never made the

headlines was the act that the PNG police orce burnt

down the village two times ollowing the April burnings

once on June 23118 and again in July 2119 ater the vil-

lagers rebuilt houses in the same area.

his is the true tragedy with Porgera. Here, abuses cant

be conined to a ew isolated incidents, but a structure

o impunity that terrorizes residents who resist it. Here,

the crisis does not exist only in moments, but is tied to

an environment that is over run with waste, toxic dust,

landslides and tailings, creating hazards that take lives on

a regular basis.120

he landowners main plight asks or resettlement out-

side o the Special Mining Lease area, to a location where

they can live a subsistence liestyle while having basic in-

rastructure (roads, schools, and a hospital) provided or

them.121 It seems a small price to pay in exchange or a

land rich with gold.

BEYOND THE HEADLINESPORGERA IN CRISIS

APALAKA vILLAGE SITS BET WEENBARRICK`S OPEN PIT MINE ANDITS EXPANDING WASTE DUMPS.

HOUSES ARE FALLING TOLANDSLIDES AND FLAT LANDS

USED FOR GARDENS HAvE BEENCOvERED. RESIDENTS WISH TO BE

COLLECTIvELY RESE TTLED.PHOTO: SAKURA SAUNDERS

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A DISASTER FORETOLDMARINDUQUES SAN ANTONIO PIT

This is D, a brae Marinduqueo who snuck photographer Al

lan Lissner past armed guards to get this shot o Placer Domes

old copper mine. The San Antonio Pit contains millions o tonso mine waste held up by aulty dams. According to a leaked

document rom Placer Domes own enironmental consultants,

ailure o the dam is a irtual certainty in the near term. When

the Philippine goernment ordered Placer Dome to make the

necessary repairs, and clean up the mess rom two preious

dam ailures or ace criminal charges, Placer Dome responded

by pulling out personnel rom the Philippines without a word

to anyone.122

Look, that dam could break at any time, maybe next week, may

be tomorrow, I dont know. But I do know that when it does hap

pen, my house and my amily will probably be destroyed. And

just like last time, the company will deny responsibility. I want

that picture to exist, so that people can know what happened.

For that, I would be willing to sacrice mysel, said D beore tak

ing Lissner to the mine.123

Since 2005, the proince o Marinduque has been ghting Placer

Dome and Barrick in a US court.124 Rather than settle the case,

compensating Marinduquenos or lost lielihood and unding

eorts to rehabilitate the damaged ecosystems, Barrick is wag

ing an expensie and lengthy legal battle to aoid responsibility.

PHOTO: ALLAN LISSNER.NET

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grass roots human rights organization in Porgera, and o

the Porgera Landowners Association (PLOA), represent-

ing Indigenous landowners in the mine lease area, trav-

elled to Canada to raise the issues o violence and rapes by

PJV mine security guards128 in ront o shareholders and

directors at Barricks annual general meeting in oron-

to.129 Each year they also issued press releases,130 together

with MiningWatch Canada, and spoke to Canadian par-liamentarians and ederal civil servants about the human

rights abuses perpetrated by mine employees. Members

o AA and PLOA also met with Barrick executives in

oronto in 2008 and again in 2010 to raise the issue o

violence by the PJV security guards directly with these

Barrick oicials. In response to a letter o May 2008 rom

Mr. Mark Ekepa, chairman o the PLOA to then-Barrick

President and CEO Greg Wilkins in oronto, PJVs mine

manager wrote to Mr. Ekepa: ...we ound your public al-

legations o our employees gang raping Porgera Land

Owners women to be most distasteul, to say the least as

you know these allegations to be untrue. 131

Starting in 2006 research teams rom the Internation-

al Human Rights Clinic o the Harvard Law School and

the Center or Human Rights and Global Justice o New

York University School o Law gathered data on alleged

rapes and gang rapes o local women by PJV security

guards. heir indings were presented beore the Canadi-

an Standing Committee on Foreign Aairs and Interna-

tional rade on October 20, 2009, and in a legal brie they

subsequently iled.132 Barrick was aware o the investiga-

tions by Harvard and NYU having received three letters

rom the Harvard/NYU team in the course o 2008-2009requesting...inormation regarding speciic instances o

violence. ...133 hese letters rom the Harvard/NYU team

should have been suicient cause or Barrick/PJV to exer-

cise due diligence and take proactive steps to investigate

its security orces. Barrick responded to the parliamenta-

ry testimony by Harvard and NYU in 2009 via a careul-

ly worded statement on its web site: o our knowledge

there have been no cases o sexual assault reported to

the mine management involving PJV security personnel

while on duty, since Barrick acquired its interest in the

mine in 2006. It is not possible or the PJV to investigate

an allegation it has never received....134

Barrick implements a flawed remedy program and

seeks legal waivers from rape victims

In 2010, ahead o yet another report on the rapes soon to

be issued by Human Rights Watch,135 Barrick inally ac-

knowledged the reality o the problem and set about put-

ting in place a remedy program. In October 2012, Bar-

rick announced a remedy program or victims o rape by

the PJV mines security guards.136 he remedy ramework

document is quite clear on the types o individual remedy

that will be oered. Aside rom mental or physical health

related services, the core remedy package oerings may

best be characterized as income generating projects.137

hese are the sorts o projects companies now commonlyoer community members in the normal course o op-

erations as part o community relations or corporate

social responsibility. In act, Barrick will be oering sim-

ilar projects to community women generally through a

separate community-based program. he packages Bar-

rick is oering can better be described as beneits rath-

er than rights-compatible remedy i.e. in accord with

internationally recognized human rights consistent with

international standards on the right to a remedy as set out

in the UN Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to

a Remedy or Gross Violations o International Human

Rights Law and Serious Violations o International Hu-manitarian Law.

MiningWatch Canada conducted a ield assessment o the

remedy program through interviews with victims o rape

in Porgera between the dates o March 5-10, 2013.138his

ield assessment raised a range o concerns with the rem-

edy program Barrick has put in place. MiningWatch Can-

ada has detailed these concerns in two letters (March 19

and April 2) to the UN High Commissioner o Human

Rights and Barrick has responded to the March 19 let-

ter.139 In Barricks March 22 letter the company disclosed

that 170 women had already iled claims at that time andthat no claim had yet been inalized.

MiningWatchs concerns include: use by remedy program

sta o a language not commonly understood or spo-

ken by local women; lack o decision making authority

by rape victims regarding the orm o remedy they will

receive (most women reported being oered chickens to

raise);140 remedy is not tailored to the harm that has been

suered;141 remedy is not culturally appropriate;142 lack

o understanding by women o the process in which they

are engaged;143 women do not have access to independent

(not paid or by Barrick) legal representation in the pro-

cess; women are not always given copies o documents

they have signed.

Additionally, the remedy program is not transparent or

the women who participate in it, or or outside observ-

ers.144 Furthermore, lack o awareness by local women o

the program was apparent as nearly hal o the women

interviewed by MiningWatch Canada who were not al-

ready engaged in the remedy program had not heard o

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the program. hese laws may have been avoided i Bar-

rick had been willing to engage core local and interna-

tional stakeholders in the design and implementation o

the ramework. In particular, Barrick explicitly excluded

rom consultation the leadership o a grass roots human

rights organization in Porgera, the Akali ange Associ-

ation (AA), and the Porgera Landowners Association

(PLOA), which represents the landowners in the minelease area.

he women who have endured rape by Barricks security

guards have suered a gross violation o human rights

and a criminal oence. What Barrick is oering through

its non-judicial process does not relect remedy that vic-

tims o rape may receive in traditional courts in Papua

New Guinea, or through the Papua New Guinea civil jus-

tice system.145 Barricks initiative does not provide bene-

its that are commensurate with international standards

on remedies or human rights abuses, nor does it pro-

vide the procedural protections o judicial processes thatwould ensure victims the opportunity to make a ree and

inormed choice about their rights. Nonetheless, wom-

en who elect to accept beneits rom Barricks procedure

will be required to sign legal waivers:

the claimant agrees that she will not pursue or partici-

pate in any legal action against PJV, PRFA [Porgera Re-

mediation Framework Association Inc.] or Barrick in or

outside of PNG. PRFA and Barrick will be able to rely on

the agreement as a bar to any legal proceedings which may

be brought by the claimant in breach of the agreement.146

In its letter o March 22, Barrick says that it is appropri-

ate that claims against Barrick, PJV and PRFA should be

released in order to bring inality to the process. While

it is undoubtedly o great value or the company to be

able to secure a bar to uture legal procedures, this is o

no value to the women, in act it takes away their right

to pursue legal action. A remedy program is supposed

to provide remedy or harm that has been done, not to

unction as a transaction o value or the company. Bar-

rick should be oering the victims o rape by its security

guards an appropriate remedy package in a transparent

process. But remedy should be oered to compensate or

the egregious harm that has been suered; it should notbe used as a vehicle by which to secure legal immunity

or Barrick Gold.

GOLD FEvERAN INSANE INDUSTRYGold, long said to inspire insanity in the men who wouldsearch or it, has now become an insane industry, produc

ing oer a million times more waste than product147. Bar

ricks gold mines on aerage use more water148 than the

entire bottle water industry in Canada149, and this water is

polluted with mining waste products such as cyanide, mer

cury, arsenic, cadmium, selenium, and suldes.

All this waste and pollution is in exchange or a product that

has ery ew practical applications. The ast majority o gold

is used or jewellry, while its use or inestment is next in

line. That leaes less than 11%150 or all other uses o the sot

shiny metal. Whats more, since gold is eternally recycled

and neer consumed, theres enough that is already dug upto meet practical demands or all o the oreseeable uture.

Sound cray? Just compare coppers pricetag at $3.30/lb

ersus golds at $1,370/o. and you can guess at how much

more waste companies are willing to produce to get at it.

With eninomental costs almost entirely unaccounted or,

the processing costs are all that stand in the way or com

panies to realise huge prots at the expense o those liing

next to the mines.PHOTO: ALLAN LISSNER. A

MURAL IN SAN MARCOS,GUATEMALA

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More than 170 mining companies are active in Argentina.

85% o them are oreign corporations, o which more than40% are Canadian.

Barrick Gold has had two active projects in the countrysince 2001: Veladero, an open pit gold and silver mine locat-ed in the northern province o San Juan, and Pascua Lama,the rst binational gold and silver mining project in theworld, located on the border between Argentina and Chile.By 2011 waterways nearby both projects had been shown tohave been contaminated rom Barricks operations.

In 2003, Barrick tried to begin the Famatina project in themountains o the province o La Rioja, but they were metwith staunch opposition rom communities in that region

who opposed the expansion o mining into their territories.

Since the 1990s, megamining projects, and particularly openpit mining, one o the most polluting, devastating and dan-gerous industrial activities, are rapidly expanding, sustainedby a legal ramework written with the help o the very sametransnational companies that steer the mining develop-ments.

In 1997 Barrick played a key role in developing theMining Complementation reaty between Chile and Argen-tina, which eliminated restrictions on oreign ownership oproperty in border zones. Te Andes were transormed intothe territory o transnational mining companies.

A strong social movement has arisen as communities haveinitiated dynamic processes o social organization anddeveloped multiple strategies to conront their situations.

Te case of El Famatina

One o the communities that has led the ght againstmegamining projects in Argentina is in the region o LaRioja, where people have taken the risk o blocking miningoperations in Famatina. In 2006 Barricks mining projectwas orced to pull out. In 2012 they stopped the Canadiancompany Osisko rom coming in.

Since 2003 Barrick showed an interest in this territory orthe mineral reserves ound in the mountain range. In 2005,Barrick secured an agreement obtaining exclusive rights toexploration and operation o the Famatina project.

Authorization o the mining operation was granted in 2006,

which is when people living nearby the site ormed the rst

sel-organized neighborhood assemblies in the region. Fromthat moment on, a range o organized actions by citizensassemblies in the cities o Chilecito and Famatina were keyin the deense and protection o the mountains.

Tis mobilization is ongoing. Te permanent and strategicroad blockade set up in the sector o Peas Negras sinceMarch, 2007, is the most efective tactic the communitieshave used in deending their territories.

As a result o this determined peoples movement, Barrickwithdrew rom El Famatina in May, 2007.

In his 2007 campaign or governor o the province, Beder

Herrera supported two laws, one that prohibited open pitmining with the use o cyanide and other contaminatingchemicals, and one that created a committee to investigatethe contract between the province and Barrick. However,when he was elected governor in 2008, he back pedaled,revoking these laws and restoring the relationship with themining companies.

Te peoples movement maintained their road block-ade in Peas Negras, but the state response has made ElFamatina one o the most well known cases o criminalizingsocial protest in Argentina. However, the determinedstruggle o communities has been ertile. Tey orced bothBarrick and Osisko to abandon their mining projects andhave also strengthened a growing social movement in theace o state repression and criminalization.

Tis process was acilitated by the social cohesion withinthe popular assemblies as well as the network o regional,national and international relationships. Tat has enabledthe exchange o inormation, research and analysis o themining industry, the sharing o experiences, planning coor-dinated actions and getting the word out.

At the heart o this process o social mobilization, theygenerated diferent principles that legitimized the strug-gle, diferent orms o organizing, diferent dynamics and

relationships o power, organizing themselves in acomplex social and political process, productive andpromising, making space or the emergence o a new ormo exercising rights and responsibilities or the members othe community, linking social and environmental struggles.

EL FAMATINA NO SE TOCAA PEOPLES vICTORY AGAINST BARRICK GOLD150

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CONCLUSION & RECOMMENDATIONS

Implicit in this report is the reality that you cannot take

Barrick Golds representations at ace value. Herein lies

the most basic critique o Corporate Social Responsibility

(CSR) as it is currently practiced within the mining sec-

tor; sel-reporting ails to live up to outside scrutiny, while

human rights and environmental abuses are covered up.

Even in the cases where Barrick is orced to acknowl-

edge wrong-doing, CSR has been used by this company

to avoid legal accountability as opposed to compensate

vict ims o abuses.

here are many changes that Barrick must take and many

liabilities it must resolve beore it can be considered a re-

sponsible company. Barrick should:

Resettle the Porgerans currently living with

the Special Mining Lease area o the mine;

Respect the sel determination o commu-nities neighbouring its mine sites, including

the right to say no;

Stop using lethal orce to deal with the peo-

ple living around Barrick gold mines;

Compensate people who have been victims

o violence rom mine security;

Not use non-judicial remedy as a way to get

legal waivers;

Suspend operations at the North Mara mine

and allow an independent investigation othe contamination o local water sources;

Settle with communities in Marinduque and

ensure that there is a lasting resolution to

saety issues at the San Antonio Pit;

Stop lobbying against regulation aimed at

ensuring international mining companies

are held accountible or abuses overseas;

Discontinue mining in sensitive eco-sys-

tems, such as the San Guillermo Biosphere

reserve, and accept and abide by laws meant

to protect glaciers and other vital natural re-

sources;

Exercise greater due diligence by taking is-

sues like rape, non-sexual violence or envi-

ronmental concerns brought to the company

by local people, NGOs, government pension

unds, or others seriously. reat the messen-

gers with respect, and make every eort toaddress the concerns in an open and trans-

parent ashion; and

Publish closure plans and available bonds

or all operating mines.

Barricks CSR Adisory Board: Window dressing?PICTURED: Gare Smith, Aron Cramer, Eliabeth Dowdeswell, John Ruggie, and Robert Fowler

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1 Barricks huge pay: Is enough enough? Boyd Erman, The Golde and Mail. March29, 2013. http://protestbarrick.net/article.php? id=874

2 Tombstone: The Untold Story o Maos Great Famine by Yang Jisheng reiewRana Mitter, Guardian UK. Dec. 7, 20 12. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/dec/07/tombstonemaogreatamineyengjishengreiew

3 March 5, 201 3. Jamie Sokalsky, CEO orum on Minings Contribution to Sustainable Deelopment lie presentation. PDAC Conerence, Toronto.

4 Superintendencia del Medio Ambiente ormula cargos contra Pascua LamaSebastian Marchant, 24 horas. March 27, 2 013. http://www.24horas.cl/nacional/superintendenciadelmedioambienteormulacargoscontrapascualama577359

5 Ibid.

6 Empresa Barrick es multada nuea por incumplimientos en proyecto PascuaLama Alenjandra Tilleria & Mario Castillo, Biobio

Chile. April 1, 2013. http://www.biobiochile.cl/2013/04/01/empresabarrickesmultadanueamenteporincumplimientosenproyectopascualama.shtml

7 Goerenment Study: Chilean Gold M ine Threatens Local Glaciers James Fowler,Santiago Times. January 7, 2010. http: //www.protestbarrick.net/article.php?id=556

8Barricks Glaciers Report reeals more than 400 Glaciers in Indigenous TerritoriesImpacted by Pascua Lama Subido Porernanda, Center or Human Rights andEnironment. March 20, 2013. http://wp.cedha.net/?p=12411&lang=en

9 Editors Reality Check: Myth s. Fact Nancy J. White, Barrick Beyond Borders.September 8, 2010. http://barrickbeyondborders.com/2010/09/realitycheck/

10 Ibid.

11 Equator Principles Due Dilligence Reiew: violations by Barrick Golds PascuaLama Project Jorge Daniel Taillant, Center or Human Rights and Democracy.No. 25, 2011. http://wp.cedha.net/wpcontent/uploads/2011/11/EquatorPrinciplesDueDiligence ReiewBarrickGoldPascuaLamaEnglish.pd

12 Ibid.

13 Pascua Lama mine: What Barrick didnt say Haliax Initiatie. August 7, 2012.http://protestbarrick.net/article.php?id=841

14 PascuaLamamine:WhatBarrickdidntsayHaliaxInitiatie.August7,2012.http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=11856

15 Congressmen Seek Pascua Lama Reiew Because O GlacierDamage MonicaEans, Santiago Times. http://www.protestbarrick.net/article.php?id=149

16 Digging work suspended at Barricks Pascua Lama mine Felipe Iturrieta& Helen Popper, Reuters. Noember 10, 2012. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/10/usbarrickpascualamaidUSBRE8A90GP20121110

17 Glaciers and Periglacial Enironments in Diaguita Huascoaltino IndigenousTerritory Jorge Daniel Taillant, Center or Human Rights and Enironment. December 2012. http://wp.cedha.net/wpcontent/uploads/2013/02/InormedeGlaciaresydelAmbientePeriglacialenTerritorioInd%C3%ADgenaDiaguitaHuascoaltinoenglish.pd

18 Chile: Communities and Goernment Ofcials Redraw Borders that BarrickGold Seeks to Dissole Haliax Initiatie. August 7, 2012. http://www.miningwatch.ca/news/chilecommunitiesandgoernmentofcialsredrawbordersbarrickgoldseeksdissole

19 Chilean Court Suspends Pascua Lama Mine Marianela Jarroud, Inter PressSerice. April 10,2013.

http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/04/chileancourtsuspendspascualamamine/

20 Neada gold mines to pay $618,000 or pollution Scott Sonner, BloombergBusinessweek. February 7, 2013.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/20130207/neadagoldminestopay618000orpollution

21 Barrick gold shipment released by Dominican Republic Manuel Jimene,Reuters. March 18, 2013. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globeinestor/barrickgoldshipmentreleasedbydominicanrepublic/article9931919/

22 Ibid.

23 North Mara Pollution Report Manred Bitala, Charles Kweyunga & MkabwaManoko, CCT. June2009. http://www.protestbarrick.net/downloads/North%20Mara%20Pollution%20Report.pd

24 IPM report 2009Asgeir Almas, Charles Kweyunga & Mkabwa Manoko,Norwegian Uniersity o Lie Sciences. http://www.protestbarrick.net/downloads/FinalTanania2.pd

25 Barrick Gold response re alleged water contamination in Tanania. BarrickGold, December 15, 2009. http://198.170.85.29/BarrickGoldresponsereallegedwatercontaminationinTanania15Dec2009.pd

26 Response to Barrick Gold Corporations critique o IPMReport 2009 http://www.protestbarrick.net/downloads/Barrick %20Response.pd

27 Tanania: Killings and Toxic Spill Tarnish Barrick Gold zahra Moloo, TowardFreedom. May 11, 2011. http://www.towardreedom.com/arica/2390tananiakillingsandtoxicspilltarnishbarrickgold

28 Tanania: The human cost o gold: A nd a deadly price to pay This Day Tanania. June 30, 2009. http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15402

29 Barricks Tanania N Mara Mine Probed On Pollution Allegation NicholasBariyo, Dow Jones Newswire. July 7, 2009. http://www.protestbarrick.net/article.php?id=509

30 Dangerous Leels o Arsenic Found Near Tanania Mine MiningWatch Canada.Noember 17, 2009 http://www.miningwatch.ca/en/dangerousleelsarsenicoundneartananiamine

31 Barrick 2011 Responsibility Report Barrick Gold Corporation. http://barrickresponsibility.com/2011/datatables/enironmental perormance?noexit=true

32 Editors Reality Check: Myth s. Fact Nancy J. White, Barrick Beyond Borders.September 8, 2010. http://barrickbeyondborders.com/2010/09/realitycheck/

33 Barrick Gold Signicant Incidents and Concerns in 2010BarrickGoldCorporation. http://barrickresponsibility.com/2010/en/society/signicantincidents.html

34 Interiew with Tundu Lissu by Sakura Saunders. Dar es Salaam, Jan 25, 2012

35 NemcsordertoBarrickBeldinaNyakeke,TheCitien.January26,2013.http://www.thecitien.co.t/news/49generalelectionsnews/28377nemcsordertobarrick.html

36 Editors Reality Check: Myth s. Fact Nancy J. White, BarrickBeyond Borders.September 8, 2010. http://barrickbeyondborders.com/2010/09/realitycheck/

37 Email correspondence

38 Email correspondence with Chacha Wmabura

39 Ibid

40 Barricks legal threat to Chacha Wambura S. D. Magai, IMMMA adocates. June8, 2010. http://protestbarrick.net/downloads/Barrick_legal_threat_Tz.pd

41 Barricks Tananian project tests ethical mining policiesGeorey York, TheGlobe and Mail. September 29, 2011. http://protestbarrick.net/article.php?id=768

42 Engaging in journalism act iities without permission Jocelyn Edwards, TheToronto Star. May 28, 2011. http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2011/05/28/engaging_in_journalism_actiities_without_permission.html

43 Interiew with Tundu Lissu by Sakura Saunders. Dar es Salaam, Jan 25, 2012 44Ibid.

45 Engaging in journalism act iities without permission Jocelyn Edwards, TheToronto Star. May 28, 2011. http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2011/05/28/en

gaging_in_journalism_actiities_without_permission.html46 Barrick Earns Top Position in Canadian Mining Industry Sustainability Rankings4Traders. Noember 19, 2012. http://www.4traders.com/BARRICKGOLDCORP1408870/news/BarrickGoldCorpBarrickEarnsTopPositioninCanadianMiningIndustrySustainabilityRanking15531476/

47 Cheyo in the soup: allegations o water contamination by acid seeping rom theNorth Mara Gold Mine. Samuel Kamndaya, Dodoma and Anthony Mayunga, TheCitien. July 1, 2009. http://protestbarrick.net/article.php?id=503

48 Interiew with Tundu Lissu by Sakura Saunders. Dar es Salaam, Jan 25, 2012

49 Romina Picolotti, ormer Secretar y o t he Enironment o Argentina RominaPicolotti, Noemebr 24, 2009. http://protestbarrick.net/article.php?id=654

50 The Rainorest Inormation Centre, http://www.rainorestino.org.au/gold/lakep.html

51 Community: Sharing Benets, http://barrick responsibility.com/2011/community/Indigenous

52 Editors reality check: myth s reality, September 8 2010, Beyond Borders http://barrickbeyondborders.com/2010/09/realitycheck/

53 International Solidarity conronts Corporate Spin May 28 2002, http://protestbarrickgold.blogspot.com.au/

54 Barrick Golds Dirty S ecrets, June 1 , 2007, Green Let Weekly, http://www.greenlet.org.au/node/37700

55 The Coalition to Protect Lake Cowal, http://www.rainorestino.org.au/gold/lakep.html#Coalition

56 Fourteen protestors arrested at Wiradjuri Lake Cowal demonstration, April 9,2007, Mines and Communities http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=439

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57 Lake Cowal Gold Mine locked down during Protest, April 12, 200 9, WorkingGroup or Abor iginal Rights Australia, http://wgar.wordpress.com/tag/lakecowal/

58 The Wiradjuri Fight to the Bitter End, https://www.youtube.com/watch?=rCFlBFiAg8

59 Barrick Golds mine in Lake Cowal, the Sacred Heartland o the Wiradjuri Nation,August 21, 2012, Engage Media, http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/waysoseeing/ideos/barricksacredheartland

60 Aboriginal Spirituality undamental reedom, Neille Chappy Williams, a Wiradjuri Traditional Owner o Lake Cowal, Central New South Wales, Australia on HumanRights and Fundamental Freedoms at 7th Session o the United Nations PermanentForum on Indigenous Issues, New York, 29 May 2008.

61 International Day o Action Against Barrick Gold, April 2007, http://protestbarrick.net/article.php?id=89

62 Meet the Resistance: a speaking tour o aected Indigenous communities, April2008 http://protestbarrick.net/article.php?id=263

63 Someone Elses Treasure: Indigenous Resistance, Multimedia by Allan Lissner,April 2008 https://imeo.com/5659516

64 Statement o the Diaguita Huascoaltinos Indigenous and Agricultural Community, Chile April 28, 2010. http://www.protestbarrick.net/article.php?id=592

65 HUASCOALTINOS CLAIM IS ADMITTED BY THE INTERAMERICAN COMMISSIONON HUMAN RIGHTS: a statement rom the Diaguita Huascoaltinos Feb 23, 2010.http://www.protestbarrick.net/article.php?id=570

66 Un muerto y nuee heridos deja enrentamiento en centro minero Pierina Eran

Rosales and Liliana Rojas. La Republica, Sept 21 , 2012. http://www.larepublica.pe/21092012/unmuertoynueeheridosdejaenrentamientoencentromineropierina

67 Jee del Gabinete: se inestigar y sancionar a responsables de muerte depoblador en Ancash Sept. 20, 2 012. ANDINA. http://www.andina.com.pe/Espanol/noticiajeedelgabineteseinestigaraysancionaraaresponsablesmuertepoblador ancash429081.aspx

68 Human Rights Watch Peru: Preent Unlawul Killings o Protesters Sept. 20, 2012http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/09/20/peru preentunlawulkillingsprotesters

69 Canadian PM announces Peruian mining conict management program Dorothy Kosich. Mineweb. No 14, 2011 http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/content/en/minewebsustainablemining?oid=139490&sn=Detail&pid=102055

70 Lowest Producing Cost Gold Mine In 1998 updated Dec. 2012. www.mineengineer.com/mining/pierena.htm

71 Deadly clash at Peru protest oer Barrick gold mine BBC News, Sept. 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worldlatinamerica19669760

72 See Suriing the Pierina mine: the Marinayoc Community and its struggle or

clean water in the Andes in this report.

73 See McGill Uniersity http://micla.ca/conicts/lagunasnorte/

74 See Rick Ar nold, Embassy Magaine, March 5, 2012. http://www.miningwatch.ca/article/peruiansopposecidasjointcsrinitiatiebarrickgoldandworldision

75 http://www.worldision.ca/AboutUs/Newsroom/pressreleases/Pages/WvPositiononAidDeelopmentMiningIndustry.aspx

76 http://www.miningwatch.ca/article/peruiansopposecidasjointcsrinitiatiebarrickgoldandworldision

77 http://www.deonshireinitiatie.org/aboutus.html

78 Argentine high court denies Barrick Gold injunction blocking law against miningnear glaciers Associated Press, Washington Post. July 3, 2012. http://www.protestbarrick.net/article.php?id=814

79 PNG 2012 National Election Ofcial Results The Garamut. July 15, 2012. http://garamut.wordpress.com/png2012 nationalelectionofcialresults/

80 Wuangima illage (as Amnesty reers to it) is also called Ungima village. Operation Ipili 2009 Repor t #3 report by Akali Tange Association http://protestbarrick.net/downloads/OPERATION%20IPILI%202009%20REPORT%20_%203.doc

81 One more Aggressie Shooting at Porgerareport prepared by Ak ali TangeAssociation 2010. http://protestbarrick.net/downloads/ONE %20MORE%20AGGRESSIvE%20SHOOTING%20AT%20PORGERA.pd

82 23 contract workers occupies the San Ambrosio Church in vallenar translatedrom http://radio.uchile.cl/noticias/165182/ and http://noticias.lainormacion.com/economianegociosy nanas/mineria/trabajadoresdepascualamaocupaniglesiachilenapordemandas laborales_rDkqaQcQLd1mQIL9ydFI32/. English languagelink: http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.ca/2012/08/wnu1139chileanmineworkersoccupy.html

83 UPDATE 5Chile top court rejects $5 bln Castilla power project Erik Lope &Alexandra Ulmer, Reuters. August 29, 2012. http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/28/

chilecastillaidINL2E8JS82620120828

84 Tanania: Police Fire Lie Bullets At Ciilians Mugini Jacob, Tanania Daily News.September 1, 2012. http://allarica.com/stories/201209010458.html

85 Barrick Gold hit with nes by ASIC Marc Howe, Mining.com. September 3, 2012.http://www.mining.com/barrick goldhitwithnesbyasic71656/

86 Peru: Barrick gold mine protest leaes one person dead Amy Silerstein, GlobalPost. September 20, 2012. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/120920/perubarrickgoldmineprotestleaesoneperson dead

87 Doens injured in Barrick Gold Dominican Republic protest Dominican Today.September 28, 2012. http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2012/9/28/45246/DoensinjuredinBarrickGoldDominicanRepublic protest

88 Chileans diided oer alue o Barrick s water und Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.com. December 17, 201 2. http://www.mining.com/chileansdiidedoeralueobarrickswaterund31169/

89 Obras de Pascua Lama paraliadas por incumplimiento a reglamento de seguridad minera Radio Uniersidad de Chile. Noember 10, 2012. http://radio.uchile.cl/noticias/178819/

90 Glaciers, protests and court cases slow Barrick in PascuaLama CatherineSolyom, The Gaette. December 15, 2012. http://www2.canada.com/technology/glaciers+protests+court+cases+slow+barrick+pascua+lama/7703080/story.html?id=7703080

91 Thousands inade gold mine in Mara IPP Media. Noember 9, 2012. http://www.ippmedia.com/rontend/index.php? l=4782 0

92 Lost benets Wendy Pitlick, Black Hills Pioneer. Noember 10, 2012. http://www.bhpioneer.com/article_430cae12 2abe11e2b9120019bb29634.html

93 Barrick Gold Could Lose the Pascua Lama Project El Ciudadano, Upside DownWorld. April 3, 2013. http://upsidedownworld.org/main/newsbriesarchies68/4210barrickgoldcouldlosethepascualamaproject

94 Ibid.

95 Akali Tange Association. Extrajudicial Killing: incident report Jan. 16, 201 3.http://protestbarrick.net/downloads/EXTRAJUDICIAL%20KILLING%20(1).docx

96 Nemcs order to Barrick Beldina Nyakek

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