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Published on Monday, 11 July 2016 18:00
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***Special Event Announcement****
Don’t miss this
FREE screening
of
Flin Flon Flim Flam
An
Investigative Media production.
Hudbay Minerals‘ worldwide operations and its human rights and
environmental abuses.
Coming to Victoria on Friday July 15th at 7 pm
The Vic Theatre: 808 Douglas St.
The film director John Dougherty will be in attendance for
discussion and Q and A after the film.
There will be a brief introduction by Mining Justice Action
Committee (MJAC).
Award-winning journalist John Dougherty’s latest documentary “Flin Flon
Flim Flam”, reports on Toronto-based miner Hudbay Minerals‘ worldwide operations
and its human rights and environmental abuses.
The exposé reveals how Hudbay contaminated its home community in Flin
Flon, Manitoba with high levels of heavy metals from a smelter the company
operated for more than 80 years. The documentary also reports on the impact to
residents of Hudbay’s former mine in El Estor, Guatemala where the company’s
security guards allegedly clashed with residents... over land claims.
A Mayan community leader was shot to death and another man left
paralyzed in the September 2009 violence. Hudbay is now the target of a three,
precedent-setting civil suits in Toronto that have withstood the company’s
attempts to have the case thrown out. The cases are proceeding to trial. The
cases mark the first time a Canadian company is being held accountable in
Canadian courts for the acts of an overseas subsidiary.
Dougherty also reports on demonstrations and community opposition to
Hudbay’s recently opened Constancia open pit copper mine in Uchucarco, Peru.
Residents in the community were beaten and tear gassed by Peruvian National
Police wearing rain gear provided by Hudbay Minerals. Residents in the rural
community claim Hudbay has reneged on its promises to the community in exchange
for rights to the land for the open pit mine.
The film covers in detail the environmental destruction that would
occur if Hudbay Minerals obtains state and federal permits to construct the
Rosemont mine on the north-eastern face of the Santa Rita Mountains and the
threat to Green Valley’s water supply from Hudbay’s planned groundwater pumping.
Hudbay has promised to replace 2 groundwater it pumps from the Santa Cruz River
Valley with Central Arizona Project Canal water. Critics, however, cast doubt
that Hudbay will be able to fulfill its promise as Colorado River supplies
continue to decline.
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