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Article

31 Jul 2002

Author:
Friends of the Earth

full report: Clashes with Corporate Giants: 22 campaigns for biodiversity and community

[includes section entitled "Towards binding corporate accountability"; also includes the following case studies: Peru: Manhattan Minerals (Tambogrande gold mine) Malaysia: Malaysian timber companies (logging in Sarawak - affecting indigenous peoples) South Africa: Sasol, Total, Dow Chemicals (pollution of poor communities) Russia/Lithuania: Lukoil (Baltic sea drilling) Papua New Guinea: BHP Billiton (OK Tedi mine) Chad/Cameroon: ExxonMobil, Chevron, Petronas (Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline) Ecuador: AGIP, Alberta Energy [now EnCana], Occidental Petroleum, Perez Companc, Repsol-YPF, Techint (oil pipeline, affecting indigenous peoples) Czech Republic: Ford, Nemak (car plant on agricultural land) Nigeria: Shell (environmental justice issues in Niger Delta) Chile: Noranda (aluminium plant) Worldwide: Aventis, Monsanto (genetically modified food) Colombia: Occidental Petroleum (oil extraction on land of U'wa people) Australia: Barrick Gold (gold mine, affecting indigenous peoples) Brazil: Petrobas, El Paso Energy (gas pipeline, affecting indigenous peoples) Indonesia: Asia Pulp & Paper (logging of rainforests) Chile: Nutreco (salmon farms) Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey: BP (Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline) Malta: Ax Holdings, Carlson Companies, Regent Hotels (golf course on agricultural land) Australia: Nihon Unipac (clearcutting Goolengook Forest) Norway: Bayer, Monsanto, Kanegafuchi (Norwegian sea pollution) Indonesia: Rio Tinto (gold mine, affecting indigenous peoples) UK: Scott's Company (peat extraction for compost)]