Hello, In Mexico we have the perfect examples you need, the most recent one
being the Balsas system of dams, a huge megaproject that was to be funded
by the World Bank and would have covered 35 nahuatl indigenous communities
under water.
The nahuatl organized back in 1990 and networked with mexican NGOs for
civil support, they formed the Consejo de Pueblos Nahuas del Alto Balsas.
After struggling hard they succeded and the project was cancelled. I was
one of the NGO people to support them, they published a report on their
struggle after we took them to Earth Summit in 92 where there was a special
forum for people affected by megaprojects. You could try checking the Earth
Summit internet site, they must have all case studies reported there. In
fact meeting Vandana Shiva and the Chipko people in India empowered our
people to fight harder.
Good luck.
Patricia
Any good sources, online or off, or off the top of your head, on the
>Ecological Impacts of Mining, and the Impacts of Mining on Indigenous
>Communities?
>
>Mining is of course the basis for everything we use. The steel in our cars,
>aluminum, coal, oil, copper, etc.
>
>Also if anyone can supply good sources on The Destructive Impact of
>Hydroelectric Plants both in terms of river ecologies as well as indigenous
>communities, with possible histories of regions, that would be helpful as
>well.
>
>Is there also a history of the ecologically devastating impact of roads?
>
>And then any reports on manufacturing would be helpful as well.
>
>I am teaching a workshop on The Ecological Evils of Industrialism and I need
>some concrete examples.
>
>Any help in this regard would be much appreciated.
>
>Sincerely,
>
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