By: Marcela Zuluaga C.
The coal mining activity in the Colombian Caribbean not only affects the health of its neighbors but has also displaced entire communities, leaving a path of dispossession and resistance.
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Glencore poisons rivers in Cesar and La Guajira.
Research: Joanna Zapata and Marcela Zuluaga
Audiovisuals: Iván Castaño
Drone footage: Plinio BarrazaCoal mining waste poses a serious problem; companies like the Prodeco Group – Glencore are responsible for changes in water quality, loss of aquatic diversity, and the accumulation of contaminants in the food chain of aquatic species in the communities of Calenturitas and La Jagua in Cesar, and near El Cerrejón in La Guajira.
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Glencore: Swallowing the Tropical Forest in Colombia
Research: Joanna Zapata, Marcela Zuluaga, and Omar Vera
Audiovisuals: Iván Castaño
Drone footage: Plinio BarrazaThe environmental footprint that Glencore has left in northern Colombia is evident. Vast expanses of tropical forests in the departments of Cesar and La Guajira, where the Swiss company operates open-pit coal mines, have accumulated four decades of deforestation and soil damage that may never be repaired.
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Glencore: «We were not aware»
By: Andrés Gómez – 01 August, 2023
Glencore’s top executives choose evasiveness when it comes to addressing questions about human rights, labor, and environmental violations. Their actions in Colombia, surrounded by controversy, appear to be just a reflection of a broader and concerning practice that extends wherever they have operations in the world.
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Drummond and Dimantec are leaving 800 people without work
Mining mechanics in Colombian department of Cesar perform their work in extreme conditions – Photo: Kelly Michals. By: Camila Ramírez – January 22th, 2015
More than 800 mechanics of the coal mines operated in Colombia by Drummond have lost their jobs in the northern departments Cesar, La Guajira and Atlántico, after which the company Dimantec Ltda., on December 31st last year, decided to dispense with their services without just cause.
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La Jagua: a mine that causes illness and pollution
The Tocuy river receives all wastewater produced by the open-pit coal mine of La Jagua de Ibirico, the fourth largest of its kind in the world – Photo: Omar Vera. By: Christian Peñuela – January 26th, 2013
Lumbago, silicosis, sleep disorders, work stress, spinal discs herniation, hearing loss, skin cancer, ringworm, extinction of native plant and animal species, along with the deterioration of major rivers in the Colombian northern department of Cesar are progressive and irreversible damages denounced by the mine workers of La Jagua de Ibirico and the 21000 people who live near the world’s fourth largest open air coal mine.