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The fact that pipeline projects and tar sands projects are going forward is a violation of treaties and our fundamental rights, so we are not ready to negotiate or reconcile with extractive corporations.
President Trump has already eviscerated the Clean Power Plan, promised massive tax breaks to extractive corporations and the billionaires who run them, and made a spectacle of a press conference promising Kentucky coal miners they'd be going "back to work", with no real path to do so.
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In both cases, civil lawsuits are being use as a lever to pry extractive industry corporations from their traditionally unsavory partnerships with dictators.
Communities that traditionally relied on rivers, forests and communal grazing grounds are increasingly being displaced by corporations – including extractive, construction and agriculture industries – through government collusion.
One major scene of such privatisation has been the extractive industries, providing transnational corporations with access to diamonds in Sierra Leone or oil in Uganda or lithium deposits and water rights in Bolivia.
I hope it succeeds where the 1992 conference failed, and in particular seeks to end the fallacy of a so-called green economy that promotes green investment but is nothing less than a perverse market instrument that benefits large corporations, the extractive industry and polluters, violates human rights, and ignores any social and environmental justice.
It also urges an end to trade deals "that interfere with our attempts to rebuild local economies, regulate corporations and stop damaging extractive projects".
Which is why this is another one of The Leap's key demands: "We call for an end to all trade deals that interfere with our attempts to rebuild local economies, regulate corporations and stop damaging extractive projects".
Enhancing readers' understanding of the geography, sources and scope of extractive resources in Africa, the book explains how corporations can effectively identify, mitigate and prevent legal and business risks when investing in African extractive industries.
If the Supreme Court rules in favor of Royal Dutch Shell and against the plaintiffs, multinational corporations — particularly in mining and other extractive industries — could draw the lesson that it is now safer to forge alliances with autocratic regimes that have poor human rights records because they will not be judged culpable in the way individuals can be.
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