I'm not impressed by the way this campaign was carried out or the results. Trying to blame a mining company for failure to compensate people that your campaign has made unemployed is particularly disingenuous. They had never employed these people, they were simply attracted to the region because they knew that a new mine would give them a chance of a job, a chance that has now gone because of your actions.

I did a bit of research and the Canadian company had agreed with the government a wage structure that offered a miner a salary three times the national average for comparable work in Argentina, most of the workers who moved to the town were recently laid off coal miners from the Mendoza region whose mine was exhausted. The mine was in a region already heavily indistrialised so no new disruption was expected and the

What's worse is that this company was exactly the sort of socially responsible one that we need in industry. In March 2008, Osisko created Le Fonds Essor Malartic Osisko in Canada, a 3 million Dollar fund to be used in support of Malartic economic development projects, public facilities and infrastructure. Also, a project follow-up committee was established to oversee the operation and bring up any concerns the community might have such as those regarding the environment. Its members were chosen with the intent that the committee be completely independent of the Company to avoid conflicts of interest. It has subsequently received much praise from the First Nation Canadians whose land the development is on for returning the mine area to its previous state and supporting the local community during the working period.

Stinking scum mining company bails out and leaves employees with nothing !!!!

Make the bastards pay, keep up the pressure.

>>>> securing compensation for the workers who had been promised jobs by Osisko if the mine had gone ahead<<<<<<

Not sure of the thinking here, are you saying these were people who were not employed yet but had traveled to the town in the hope of a job because they heard the mine was opening and now you think they should get compensation because your campaign caused the company to pull out of opening the mine ? Do you not understand that YOU have at least a moral responsibility for the situation these people find themselves in ?

Greenpeace have history with campaigns like this, their campaign against the Belo Monte dam also includes a 'demand' for compensation for the local builders who will not not get the contracts they had been promised.

Looks like the Indy mods were not happy to see me lay out a few facts concerning this case. Let's all pretend this was a success and the big bad mining company was the villain here.

Fools.

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