Four members of the Ipili tribe of Porgera in Papua New Guinea (PNG), at a news conference in Ottawa, demanding that Barrick Gold address serious human rights abuses and environmental destruction (related to Barrick's Porgera Joint Venture gold mine) and promoting Bill C-300 on corporate social responsibility - recorded in Ottawa <here we have indigneous commonuties from papua new ginea demanding that canadian government pass bill c-300 in order to reign in this and many otehr canadian transnational mining corporate crimes abroad..now the libertarian position is less government intervention..so then,who would protect and safeguard these communities affected?the invisible hand?then another argument is,oh but if there was less governemnt intervention competition would protect it..this is bs because other transnational canadian corporatiosn are there competing ..like pacific as well and both are committing similar crimes...see...
Indigenous Peoples Unite Against Canadian Mining in Palawan http://intercontinentalcry.org/indigenous-peoples-unite-against-mining-in-palawan/here is more cases where ppl are being effecetd by thes etransnationals demanding accountability...with less government intervention,who will do it?nobody,th crimes will actually increase..see...India Campaign to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/ Communities across India living around Coca-Cola's bottling plants are experiencing severe water shortages, directly as a result of Coca-Cola's massive extraction of water from the common groundwater resource. The wells have run dry and the hand water pumps do not work any more. Studies, including one by the Central Ground Water Board in India, have confirmed the significant depletion of the water table.
When the water is extracted from the common groundwater resource by digging deeper, the water smells and tastes strange. Coca-Cola has been indiscriminately discharging its waste water into the fields around its plant and sometimes into rivers, including the Ganges, in the area. The result has been that the groundwater has been polluted as well as the soil. Public health authorities have posted signs around wells and hand pumps advising the community that the water is unfit for human consumption. In two communities, Plachimada and Mehdiganj, Coca-Cola was distributing its solid waste to farmers in the area as "fertilizer". Tests conducted by the BBC found cadmium and lead in the waste, effectively making the waste toxic waste. Coca-Cola stopped the practice of distributing its toxic waste only when ordered to do so by the state government. Tests conducted by a variety of agencies, including the government of India, confirmed that Coca-Cola products contained high levels of pesticides, and as a result, the Parliament of India has banned the sale of Coca-Cola in its cafeteria. However, Coca-Cola not only continues to sell drinks laced with poisons in India (that could never be sold in the US and EU), it is also introducing new products in the Indian market. And as if selling drinks with DDT and other pesticides to Indians was not enough, one of Coca-Cola's latest bottling facilities to open in India, in Ballia, is located in an area with a severe contamination of arsenic in its groundwater.
Destroying Lives, Livelihoods and Communities
Water shortages, pollution of groundwater and soil, exposure to toxic waste and pesticides is having impacts of massive proportions in India. In a country where over 70% of the population makes a living related to agriculture, stealing the water and poisoning the water and soil is a sure recipe for disaster. Thousands of farmers in India have been affected by Coca-Cola's practices, and Coca-Cola is guilty of destroying the livelihoods of thousands of people in India. Unfortunately, we do not even know the extent of the damage as a result from exposure to the toxic waste and pesticides as these are long term problems. Most affected are the marginalized communities such as the Adivasis (Indigenous People's) and Dalits (formerly untouchables), as well as the low-income communities, landless agricultural workers and women. Taken in its entirety, that's a lot of people in India. Coca-Cola is destroying the food security of the people of the land, and by stealing the water and poisoning the water and soil, it is also responsible for ensuring a life of misery for future generations to come.
more crimes by transnationals..
India: Corporate Crimes and Environmental plunderhttp://www.sacw.net/article1305.html
Corporate Dirt Archiveshttp://www.corporations.org/corplist.html
