Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility
Canadian Mining and Oil Companies in Latin America
Canadian mining activity in Latin America has exploded over the past decade and a half. Investors have responded to neoliberal policies of deregulation, privatization, state-downsizing, and export promotion encouraged by leading capitalist nations and international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The result, predictably, has been sharp conflicts between the communities affected by mining and their advocates on one side, and the transnational mining companies supported by the local state and the Canadian government on the other.
This collection, the most comprehensive in the English-language to date, investigates these conflicts in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Contributors address the related sustainable development, community, corporate, legal, and social issues. A valuable contribution to Latin American development studies, this collection will prove of interest to students and specialists in the field, journalists, NGOs, and policymakers.
Contents
| Acknowledgements | |
| Chapter 1 | Mining and Oil in Latin America: Lessons from the Past, Issues for the Future Timothy David Clark and Liisa L. North |
| Chapter 2 | Mining and Communities in Peru: Constructing a Framework for Decision-Making José De Echave |
| Chapter 3 | Regulating Corporate and Community Engagement in a Large Mining Project David Szablowski |
| Chapter 4 | Bolivia's Amayapampa and Capasirca Mines: Social Resistance and State Repression Alejandra Roncallo |
| Chapter 5 | Canadian Mining in Neo-Liberal Chile: Of Private Virtues and Public Vices Timothy David Clark |
| Chapter 6 | EnCana in Ecuador: The Canadian Oil Patch Goes to the Amazon Nadja Drost and Keith Stewart |
| Chapter 7 | Canadian Mining Operations in Mexico: An Initial Overview Adriana C. Estrada Ochoa |
| Chapter 8 | Tackling Corporate Complicity: Canadian Oil Investment in Colombia Scott Pearce |
| Chapter 9 | The Story of Bonanza, Nicaragua: A Gold-Mining Town Anneli Tolvanen |
| Chapter 10 | Legitimating Plunder: Canadian Mining Companies and Corporate Social Responsibility Joan Kuyek |
| References | |
| Contributors | |
| Index |
