Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility : Canadian Mining and Oil Companies in Latin America

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Table of Contents

• Contents 6
• Acknowledgements 10
• Chapter 1 Mining and Oil in Latin America: Lessons from the Past, Issues for the Future 12
• The Booms and Busts of Mining Economies 13
• The Role of States, Corporations, and Civil Society 16
• Principal Findings 20
• Policy Proposals 24
• Notes 26
• Chapter 2 Mining and Communities in Peru: Constructing a Framework for Decision-Making 28
• Recent Trends in International Mining and Community Relations 29
• The Challenges and Needs of Peasant Communities: Vicco, Tintaya-Marquiri, and Yauli 32
• Community Decision-Making and Mining Projects: Competing Possibilities 41
• Resolving Conflict: Strategies for the Industry and Communities 46
• Note 47
• Chapter 3 Regulating Corporate and Community Engagement in a Large Mining Project 48
• New Prospects, New Engagement: Causes and Issues 49
• The Regulatory Environment: Public and Private 53
• Compañía Minera Antamina and San Marcos: Negotiating Entry 54
• The Forging of Corporate and Community Understandings 58
• Norms and Principles for Corporate and Community Engagement 63
• Notes 67
• Testimonial 1 Tambogrande: A Community in Defence of Its Rights 71
• Chapter 4 Bolivia's Amayapampa and Capasirca Mines: Social Resistance and State Repression 74
• From Old to New Mining: Towards a Transnational Architecture of Mining Extraction 76
• The Demands of Miners and Pueblos Originarios 82
• The Repression: Vista Gold and the Competition State 87
• The Internationalization of the Conflict and Other Developments 90
• Notes 95
• Testimonial 2 Mining Companies Must Respect Not Just the Law but the People! 98
• Chapter 5 Canadian Mining in Neo-Liberal Chile: Of Private Virtues and Public Vices 101
• The Institutional Context: Neo-Liberal Dictators and Neo-Liberal Socialists 103
• The "Mining Boom" and Its Economic Consequences: All for Some and None for All 106
• The Mining Boom and the Environment: It's Not My Mess! 108
• Mining and Communities: Poverty with a Mining Face 109
• Canadian Companies in Neo-Liberal Chile: Canada's Other Foreign Policy 111
• Barrick Gold and Pascua Lama: A Big, Bad Idea 114
• The Values of Canadian Mining Companies: Are They Your Values? 121
• Notes 122
• Chapter 6 EnCana in Ecuador: The Canadian Oil Patch Goes to the Amazon 124
• EnCana and Corporate Social Responsibility 125
• So What Is All the Fuss About? EnCana in the Ecuadorean Amazon 127
• EnCana and the OCP Pipeline 134
• The Campaign against the OCP 142
• Ecuador after Oil? 147
• Notes 148
• Testimonial 3 Unsustainable Non-Development: The Tragedy of Oil in Ecuador 150
• Chapter 7 Canadian Mining Operations in Mexico: An Initial Overview 154
• Mining in Mexico 155
• Canadian Mining in Mexico: The Case of Cerro San Pedro 161
• Justice, Civil Society, and the State 166
• Notes 169
• Chapter 8 Tackling Corporate Complicity: Canadian Oil Investment in Colombia 171
• The History of Canadian Oil Investment in Colombia 172
• Corporate Complicity in the Resource War 174
• Holding Canadian Companies Accountable 183
• Towards Corporate Accountability 190
• Note 191
• Testimonial 4 State Terrorism and the Dirty Business of Transnational Mining in Colombia 192
• Chapter 9 The Story of Bonanza, Nicaragua: A Gold-Mining Town 195
• Mining in the Bonanza and Nicaraguan Economies 196
• Güiriseros and Small-Scale Miners – "The Source of Work in Bonanza" 199
• Company Relations with Workers and Small-Scale Miners 202
• The Struggle for Basic Services 206
• Environmental Concerns and Responses 207
• The Legal Framework 210
• Rethinking the Community 211
• Notes 212
• Chapter 10 Legitimating Plunder: Canadian Mining Companies and Corporate Social Responsibility 214
• The Real Contribution of Canadian Mining in Latin America 216
• Laws and Regulation: The Devil Is in the Details 218
• The Public Relations Offensive to Control Civil Society 221
• Corporate Social Responsibility in Lieu of Regulation 223
• Legitimating Plunder: Unpacking the Concept of Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue 226
• What Is to Be Done? 229
• Notes 231
• References 233
• Contributors 249
• Index 253
• A 253
• B 254
• C 254
• D 256
• E 256
• F 257
• G 257
• H 258
• I 258
• J 259
• K 259
• L 259
• M 259
• N 260
• O 260
• P 261
• Q 262
• R 262
• S 262
• T 263
• U 263
• V 263
• W 263
• Y 264
• Z 264