Information about consultation and consent After the Environmental Compliance Certificate (Annex B) for the mine development was issued, the next step is to acquire the consent of mining-affected communities, specifically indigenous communities for the four ancestral domains covered by the project. However, due to social disorder and different views of communities on mining, there is no common position or consensus where the communities are amenable with the risks of the project. As of present, SMI has engaged local governments and provided tokens of “development projects” and additional funding, seen as bribe. This is further implicated by threat of human rights violations and militarizations forcing the communities to opt for resettlement in fear of the lives of their tribe members and especially the young
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:33:28 +0000