IPFS News Link • Activism
Conga mine moves forward
• http://lapress.org, Cecilia RemónThe US$4.8-billion project, owned by US mining company Newmont, Peru’s Buenaventura and the International Finance Corporation, a World Bank affiliate, sparked massive protests from residents in the northern Andean department of Cajamarca in recent months due to threats to their water supply. The company has proposed building reservoirs to replace the four natural lagoons that thousands depend on, so that it can drill for gold.