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Two-thirds of the world’s most impoverished people live in about 60 developing or transition countries that depend on oil, mining, or gas revenues.
Those committed to seeing the wealth generated by energy and mining finally result in better lives for ordinary people would do well to invest in the initiative during this critical stage.
In the Congo, the profits of mining companies helped maintain the late President Mobuto of Zaire, now the Congo, in power for decades--enabling him to pillage his country, allegedly facilitated by the secret bank accounts that are the specialty of countries like Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, and Cyprus.
Agricultural production accounts for half of anthropogenic methane, but wastewater systems, landfills, and coal mining also create the gas.
But where the loans at risk are concentrated – in steel, mining, and real estate – suggests that losses will be substantial.
During its domestic infrastructure boom, China financed major projects – often connected to mining, energy, and infrastructure – in other emerging economies.
Over the last 12 years, for example, the average real construction cost of an oil well has doubled, and in recent years new mining discoveries have been few, despite the industry's best (and often expensive) efforts.
To be sure, Trump has eviscerated the Environmental Protection Agency (which has helped coal mining), softened financial oversight (great for bank stocks), and has shown little interest in anti-trust enforcement (a welcome development for tech monopolies like Amazon and Google).
Citizens are rejecting fraudulently negotiated mining contracts that imply high environmental and social costs and few benefits for the public.
In Sierra Leone, paralegals are monitoring officials’ compliance with a new free health-care policy, and representing a community whose land was unlawfully damaged by a firm mining iron ore.
While US lawmakers are pushing to repeal portions of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation – which contains a provision requiring oil, gas, and mining companies to disclose payments they make to governments – the broader trend is toward greater transparency and accountability.
PIDA gives priority to energy (especially hydropower) projects to support mining operations and oil and gas pipelines, while sidelining renewable energy technologies, such as solar, wind, and geothermal.
More than 65% of foreign direct investment has gone toward mining and logging, which are notorious for generating little employment and concentrating wealth in the hands of a few.
His managed judiciary provides no comfort to ordinary people; and the country’s military installations, submarines, oilrigs, mining shafts, hospitals, and retirement homes regularly blow up, collapse, or sink, owing to neglect and zero liability.
China-Africa trade alone increased from $10 billion in 2000 to $107 billion in 2008, and billions of dollars are being invested in oil production, mining, transportation, electricity generation and transmission, telecommunications, and other infrastructure.
The mining minister had to take himself out of the process because his brother is a senior manager at SQM, which is controlled by the former son-in-law of the late dictator General Augusto Pinochet.
Furthermore, Global Witness has exposed secret transactions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in which lucrative mining assets were sold off to shell companies linked to a friend of President Joseph Kabila at prices well below market value.
Now he must keep the promise that he made at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year to “push for more transparency on who owns companies; on who’s buying up land and for what purpose; on how governments spend their money; on how gas, oil, and mining companies operate; and on who is hiding stolen assets and how we recover and return them.”
As for jobs, coal mining is becoming so automated that the entire sector employs just a few tens of thousands of workers in a labor force of more than 150 million.
Coal mining will play no significant role in future US employment trends, Trump or no Trump.
To this end, one approach that African governments could emulate is the TB management strategy in place for the continent’s mining sector, an inter-agency plan devised in 2014 by the Southern African Development Community.
Similarly, as large mining projects stalled, India had to resort to higher imports of coal and scrap iron, while its exports of iron ore dwindled.
A wide range of technologies and applications now used for human identification – such as optical and sound recognition, laser and satellite imagery, DNA analysis, and data mining, to name a few – can be adapted to advance this traceability strategy.
Such steep price drops forced America’s rare-earths phoenix, the mining corporation Molycorp, to shut down operations in 2002.
The troika could then have pressed the flesh with China’s leaders and made an offer that they would have found difficult to refuse – including, for example, sustainable mining technologies to address the environmental costs of extraction, or the development of a certification scheme to help prevent the illegal smuggling of rare earths.
It also recently signed new mining concessions for bauxite, in addition to existing concessions for diamonds, titanium, and gold.
African countries could also choose the Norwegian model, which established the principles that natural wealth belongs to all citizens, including the unborn, and that all mining deals should be completely transparent to the public.
No one is forcing us to sign the mining and drilling deals today.
African leaders should use the Natural Resource Charter, launched in Oslo in 2009, and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative as guidelines when undertaking any mining negotiations.
The ICJ held that America violated international law both by supporting the contras in their insurrection against the Nicaraguan government and by mining Nicaragua’s harbors.
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