La contaminacion de la Barrick

SDE.-"La República Dominicana enfrenta un doble peligro con la explotación de los sulfuros de la mina de PuebloViejo, Cotuí, que lleva a cabo la Barrick Gold", afirmó ayer ingeniero Químico Rafael Solano Liz, quien narró las ocasiones en que esta transnacional canadiense ha sido multada en Estados Unidos y Chile por daños al medio ambiente.

Dijo el ingeniero Solano Liz, que el país está expuesto a que sus riquezas de oro, plata, cobre y otros metales que se encuentran en la mina de Pueblo Viejo, Cotuí, sean saqueados por la Barrick Gold, que logró agenciarse un contrato altamente lesivo a los intereses nacionales.


A juicio del experto el país y, específicamente la provincia Sánchez Ramírez y zonas aledañas, están expuestas a las graves consecuencias de una severa contaminación ambiental, por el ejercicio irresponsable de la transnacional Barrick Gold, en materia de explotación minera.

Recordó que recientemente, la Barrick Gold fue multada en Los Estados Unidos y Chile, por agresión al medio ambiente, lanzando durante varios años consecutivos, en forma clandestina, químicos tóxicos al medio ambiente, axial como por no proteger una amplia zona de glaciares en Chile, donde la transnacional minera explota yacimientos minerales.

De acuerdo al ingeniero Rafael Solano Liz, en Reno, Nevada, Estados Unidos, la Barrick Gold ocultó que contaminó con mercurio, cianuro y plomo.

Y asimismo, de igual manera, a un mes de que la dirección de Aguas de la Región de Atacama, en Chile, solicitara que Barrick Gold Mines Corporación sea multada por incumplir con la protección de los glaciares situados dentro del proyecto binacional chileno-argentino Pascua Lama, la minera acaba de ser multada en Reno, EEUU, recientemente, por la liberación de sustancias químicas tóxicas.

La Agencia de Protección Ambiental de EEUU ha ordenado a tres minas de oro del norte de Nevada a pagar un total de 618 mil dólares por no informar la liberación de químicos tóxicos, incluyendo cianuro, plomo y mercurio desde 2005 hasta 2008.

Dijo que si la Barrick Gold ha sido capaz de llevar a cabo esta práctica en países que cuentan con sólidas instituciones que velan por la protección del medio ambiente, como es en caso de Los Estado Unidos y Chile, en este país será peor.


Lamentó que el Ministerio del Medio Ambiente dominicano este en pañales y que esto obligue a prepararse para estar vigilantes ante los crímenes medioambientales en que pueda incurrir la Barrick Gold en la provincia Sánchez Ramírez y zonas cercanas.

En el ultimo contrato, el acuerdo no menciono absolutamente nada acerca de contaminacion, desalojos y plantas de tratamientos de aguas..La Barrick Gold tampoco ha pagado nada todavia a las autoridades dominicanas..

Barrick Gold’s Perfect Storm Peter Munk on Resource Nationalism and the Changing Global Paradigm

The origin of problems according to Barrick Gold

Barrick Gold’s Perfect Storm Peter Munk on Resource Nationalism and the Changing Global Paradigm



“Please understand” … pleaded Peter Munk several times to shareholdersgathered in Toronto on April 24th for Barrick’s annual shareholdermeeting (AGM) as he laid out the reasons why Barrick Gold has lost nearly three-fourths of its company value, why projects are being closed due toenvironmental contamination, and why all of a sudden gold, and Barrick Gold stock in particular, doesn’t look so attractive. The speech is a revelation of what really drives the gold miningindustry and one of the most controversial industry leaders in particular.

Munk was clearly referring to Pascua Lama, the multi-billion dollar goldproject on the Argentine-Chilean border that has become a constant headache forBarrick Gold. The project is riddled with environmental problems and unpredictedand escalating costs, and suffered as a result of the collapse of the financingscheme Barrick hoped to build with subsidized public money from EDC (Canada)and EXIM bank (USA). Today, the mine remains closed in Chile for failure tocomply with environmental regulations. Barrick’s legal appeals have had noinfluence on the Chilean authorities.



A year ago today, Munk boasted that the fundamentals were brilliant.Barrick was on the verge of launching two of the most spectacularly unique goldmines, Pascua Lama in Argentina/Chile and Pueblo Viejo in the DominicanRepublic. Both projects would be characterized by exceptional production, longlife, and some of the lowest average operating costs per ounce. This yearthough, Munk was reduced to asking, “What can I say to you? ...The fundamental stoday could not be more different than they were a mere twelve months ago. Our two mines are both in trouble”. (AGM Speech: Minutes 43:00-44:00)

At both Pascua Lama and Pueblo Viejo, Barrick has run into significant problems.Munk attributed this to growing resource nationalism, which he referred to numerous times throughout his speech. He says it’s a global phenomenon and the underlying characteristic of the new mining paradigm.

He posed the following hypothetical situation to the audience: “You’rethe new president of a small Latin American country… You have two choices, keepon taxing the people… or go after that big multinational huge globalcorporation with billions of dollars of assets. … This is totally understandable, it is the essence of this enormously rapidly growing resource nationalism… It is the ultimate threat to the very lifeline of the mining industry, which ultimately will cause an enormous spike in commodity prices. (Minutes46:00 - 47:00)

He pointedto leaders such as Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Evo Morales of Bolivia … suggesting that “there’s a whole slew of new modern populist leaders that may not follow the rule of law as we expect them to do”. (Minute 48:00)

While never explicitly stated, it was clear that his critiques were no tso much about Chavez and Morales, but rather referred to his frustration with Argentina and Dominican republic

Ironically, the venting and frustration over host government rule-bendingquickly vanished when Munk came to the issue of executive pay. There, Munk pointed to the impressive CV of newCo-Chairman John Thorton, former Goldman Sachs chief, as a justification for awhopping US$11.9 million pay package from the gold giant to have Thorton takeover Barrick, which has dropped in value by nearly 75% since its recent marketpeak.

In his closing comments, Peter Munk reached out to the essence of whatsustains the gold industry. Companies mine, process and sell gold not forsocial or economic development, not for social progress and not for the benefitof the needy or the poor communities in the countries where Barrick Gold isinvested




So, the conclusion of BG speech:

• Dominican president is as radical and keep the same political lines of as Chavez and Morales
  

• The most important mines of BG are Pascua lama and Pueblo viejo have a populist leader that "dont follow the rules of law"

• BG always follow the rules of law
  

• BG is not in DR for social progress or the needy poor communities of Cotui.
  

• BG never mention pollution, smuggling cyanide, fines, etc so all those "rumors" are probably a lie

• Barrick Gold has lost nearly three-fourths of its company value, shareholders are VERY scare
  

• It's ok to pay somebody a bonus of $11.9 millions made from dominican gold , but not a single dime yet to dominican people
  

source: www.gowebcasting.com/events/barrick/2013/04/24/2013-annual-meeting-of-shareholders/play/stream/7102

These are the personal words of BG president Peter Munk in the last shareholder meeting..
Personally I am speechless ..

You make your own conclusions..

Barrick Gold sticks to its claim over limestone shipment

 
Santo Domingo.- Barrick Gold Corp. on Friday said the shipping manifest filed with the Customs Agency on the six tanks retained for nearly a month are in fact, limestone originally from Portugal worth only 50 dollars.
But Customs technicians said the cargo was shipped from the mine at Pueblo Viejo, Cotuí, a week after Barrick Gold and the Government signed the new agreement


An elnacional.com.do sources revealed that the mining company sought to ship the cargo to Canada, this time with a courier not the usual commercial carrier.

It said the company roused suspicions when it transported the six tanks to Punta Caucedo freight terminal’s Warehouse 10, instead of the customary Warehouse 3.

Another attitude which the source says spurred suspicion is that the company at no time demanded that Customs return the tanks which allegedly contain limestone.

They said the shipment would’ve been sent one week after signing the new contract, "the company still used tricks in the extraction of gold and silver, seeking to circumvent the payment of taxes."

Barrick Gold reportedly set the value of the limestone at 50 dollars, even though a shipping company would’ve charged more than $7,000 to ship it to Canada.
 

 Barrick Gold  set the value of the limestone at 50 dollars from Portugal?
The shipping company would’ve charged more than $7,000 to ship it to Canada.?
The limestone was coming directly from Pueblo Viejo mine?

Something smells very funny there..

Just the manner of declaring the commodity worth $50 is a slap in the face.
 Barricks actions moving the limestone originating from Portugal, subsequently arriving in the RD, and then manifiested to Canada is a de facto declaration of a special utility which adds value to the product.

 ¿ Is it worth the expense to ship ? Barrick thinks so.

Note: Gold is found in limestone deposits. Could it be the limestone was sent to Barrick in the RD for analysis ?

The actions by Barrick It do not pass the smell test.

Barrick's share holders have not gotten a whiff of it yet.

The new dark deal between Barrick Gold and the Dominican state

Pact: Dominican Republic gets 51%; Barrick Gold Corp. 49%
 Pact means US$1.5 billion more for the country 

 
 Meet the new pirates of 21st century!

"CEO: We’re here to stay, unless we’re expelled"
 

Santo Domingo.- After months of talks, protests and proposals, Dominican Republic and Barrick Gold Corp. on Wednesday reached a new agreement on the contract for the mine at Pueblo Viejo, Cotuí (northeast).

In a press conference after a meeting of several hours between senior officials and Barrick Gold executives in the National Palace, the government announced the pact to amend the contract, to be submitted to Congress as soon as possible.

"The objective of this review was to achieve a more balanced agreement for both parties and more in line with the Dominican reality, so we will sign a memorandum of understanding between the parties," said Presidency chief of staff Gustavo Montalvo.

Among other points, the agreement will raise Government revenue by more than US$1.5 billion over the project's duration, in addition to the US$10.0 billion projected in March 2013, and raises the profit split from 37.1% to 51.3 % for the country, and lowers Barrick’s from 62.9% to 48.7%
According to the document read by Montalvo, the projected tax revenue is US$11.6 billion, of which Pueblo Viejo will provide US$2.2 billion during the 2013-2016 period, subject to a gold price of US$1,600 per ounce. "The parties agreed to eliminate the 10% internal rate of return for the tax on the stake of net income to take effect."

The agreement eliminates Barrick’s privilege of starting payments to the State when the investment of capital is completed, for which tax payment tax would be immediate.
With the provisions, it will now take the Canadian miner until 2026 to recover its investment, and not bu 2016 as was stipulated.

Barrick Gold Pueblo Viejo CEO
 
For Barrick Gold Pueblo Viejo CEO Manuel Rocha the agreement is evidence of the miner’s commitment with Dominican Republic, from where he affirms will leave only if expelled. “We believe in the Dominican Republic ,we believe the democratically elected government here, what’s needed now is that we both do our part, it’s clear that Barrick Gold didn’t come just for a bit, we came to stay. We will work to stay unless we are expelled.”

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Let's do some quick math here
Barrick’s 27 shipments since Nov. 11 were reportedly 9,040 kilos of gold and 24,357 of silver


kilo = 35.27 oz
Gold oz price :US 1600

9,040 kilos x US1,600.00 x 35.27=


U$510,145,280.00
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Silver: U$25.- per oz

US25 x 35.27 oz x 24, 357 kilos=
U$21,476,784

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Total taken by Barrick gold till now :
U$531 Millions in 6 moth of operations

Based on previous numbers: Forecast a year of BG; U$1,062 millions


So, according to 7dias.com.do the dominican state will get U$11,600 millions for the life of that mine for 25 years .
U$11,600 / U$1062: : 10 years to achieve that goal for Dominicans.. the other 15 years are Barrick Gold 's time.
So the deal is not 49 %-51% as they initially said before.

The other open questions are these..

• -What happens with the retroactive payment?Is there going to be any as Danilo promised?

• -When is going to be the first payment and for how much?

• -Any serious reforestation plans for the future?

• -Are they going to pay the fines for smuggling dore?

• -When are they going to pay the millions they already owe to Dominican state? Arent they?

• Are they going to have a water treatment facility to clean the cyanide and mercury?Do they talk about it?

• What about any plans for clean water and sanitation for the community, the second poorest one in DR??

•  Three years ago , people used to have their own water, now they dont have water or  river because it's so polluted, so they are allow to take only 2 gallons of water per family from a water truck, because BG is using their water for the mercury and cyanide  procedure.

• What can expect the people from Cotui in the next 25 years? Eviction of everybody?

• How are they going to clean their toxic mess in Hatillo dam, and the rivers of Cotui?

• -Are they going to provide employment for Dominicans? To have 97% of foreign crew is against dominicanl law..Right?

-How are they going to measure the already taken dore from DR? What is the procedure to put a value on the millions already taken away..? Or the one is going to be taken away in the future? Or our gold don't have a value no more?

I have to agree that there is a big improvement over the last contract,and some people are super optimist, but not everything is clear.
Again.. Now we have more questions than answers..

Dominican government, Barrick Gold strike mine deal; reports

Santo Domingo (hoy.com.do).- After a marathon meeting Tuesday  the Dominican government and Barrick Gold Corp. reached a tentative agreement to amend the Pueblo Viejo mine contract, although how a new tax would be levied was left pending, local media report.

Canadian miner executives John Lawson Thornton, Calvin Francis Pon, Alann Hjordis Heath, Derek Hudson Burney, Kelvin Paul Michel Dushnisky, Andrew Lloyd and Curtis Arthur Johnson arrived in the country Monday noon and met with government officials headed by Presidency chief of staff Gustavo Montalvo.
 On Tuesday president Danilo Medina said he hopes to strike a deal. "It’s a negotiation. You start with endpoints and reach a midpoint. God willing a midpoint will be reached today (Tuesday)."

 


There should be more scrutiny focus on the  ambiguity of Customs and the laws of a mining country that in   an act of ignorance or  permissiveness, haven't even care to purchase a lab that allow to detect  dore and other metals, taken away from DR  under the shadow of night ... Towards a rising movement  that bet on softening popular anger against the mining activity of BG and his deadly pollution, after being fine tuned with the same money that has come out of the  innards of our land ... Towards the talks between the Government and the arrogant company that haven't pay a dime to the Dominican government yet...

We dominicans are so feed up with lame excuses  from BG, who got a 48 BILLION gold mine for free, over and over and over..

In this case we only hope that the final deal would be beneficial to the VERY poor communities around Barrick Gold, where children can get an education , people can go to the hospitals, people can get a decent job, not a total pollution or a total devastation situation ..At the end,we are not asking for too much, just that  people can get a REAL and decent way of living..

 On February 27, in the  National Assembly, President Danilo Medina created great expectations to raise the urgent need to review the contract with Barrick Pueblo Viejo. And the people took his word. A double-edged sword. Now many people expect him  to act under the power of his own  speech.

And we do not ask much. Just ask him to be thoughtful and not give in to blackmail or urban legend  from the powerful mining company. Do not delay the awaited good news for the whole country.
Again , we hope that God give wisdom and patience to the Dominican leaders, so the deal would be really beneficial to a third world country like Dominican Republic

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Barrick Gold Encountering Problems with USA, Chile and Dominican Republic

 Barrick Gold Problems in the americas


In Reno Nevada, Barrick Gold failed to report that it released toxic chemicals including mercury, cyanide and lead.   The Dominican Republic asked for a review of a contract it had with the Canadian mining company that could threaten the government.
 The Chilean Story

A month prior to the Atacama Water Board in Chile was to request that Barrick Gold Mines Corporation should be fined for not fulfilling its promise to protect the glaciers within the borders of its bi-national Chile-Argentina project, called Pascua Lama, Barrick was fined in Reno, Nevada for releasing toxic chemical substances.

 Days after a Chilean court upheld the injunction rendering their multi-billion dollar investment indefinitely stalled, Barrick Gold executives said in a shareholders meeting in Toronto that they might abandon the Pascua-Lama project altogether.
 
 Three high-level executives from Barrick's South America branch resigned Thursday, further complicating the mining giant’s South American operations. The resignations include the company’s regional president, Guillermo Caló. Robert Mayne-Nicholls and Rodrigo Jiménez, the director of operations and the regional vice president, also announced their departures.

In the Canadian company’s annual report, Chairman Peter Munk lamented the unanticipated financial issues at the mine, though he prioritized its rebound.

“We suffered a significant delay and a major cost overrun at our flagship Pascua-Lama project on the border of Chile and Argentina,” Munk said in the report. “Since that fact surfaced — so unexpectedly — the main focus of our company, at every level, has been directed at ensuring that this project will meet its new cost and schedule estimate.”

A 48 percent decline in the company’s share price and disappointing gold prices have characterized a challenging year for Barrick, Reuters reported Wednesday.

 The court of appeals in Chile’s northern Copiapó Region granted an indigenous community’s request to suspend the mine’s operations April 10. Minera Nevada, S.P.A., the Barrick subsidiary operating Pascua-Lama, has deflected allegations of negligent environmental behavior for most of its decade-long existence on the border between Argentina and Chile.

 The American Story
According to the Huffington Post, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered three mines in northern Nevada to pay a total of $618,000 for failing to report this release of toxic chemicals, including cyanide, lead and mercury from 2005-08.

All three mines are subsidiaries of the Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp. — Barrick Cortez Inc.'s Cortez Gold Mine near Crescent Valley, Barrick Gold US Inc.'s Ruby Hill Gold Mine near Eureka and Homestake Mining Co.'s Bald Mountain Gold Mine near the Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, according to the Huffington Post.

The three agreed to pay a total of $278,000 in fines and spend an additional $340,000 on an environmentally beneficial project as part of a settlement for allegedly underestimating reports of their toxic release inventory required under the federal Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, EPA officials said.
 

"Cyanide, lead and mercury used at these mines have the potential to pose a health threat," said Jared Blumenfeld, EPA's regional administrator for the Pacific Southwest Region, based in San Francisco.
"We insist on accurate reporting of chemical releases so that citizens have a clear idea of the risk from the facilities near their communities," said Blumenfeld.

The supplemental project will be conducted at the Cortez mine to identify the metal compounds formed in its oxide mill process and test methods to verify the quantities of new chemical compounds manufactured during the process.

The companies also agreed to perform audits at all other U.S. mining operations Barrick owns in Nevada and Montana and to determine if any reporting violations occurred and if so pay a $10,000 penalty per violation up to a total of $250,000
"Nonetheless, to achieve regulatory certainty regarding its TRI obligations, Barrick has agreed to enter into a settlement agreement with the EPA," said Louis Schack, director of communications for Barrick Gold of North America, based in Salt Lake City, Utah.


"Crumbs for your gold, the dominican story”
Meanwhile, in the Dominican Republic, independent deputy Carlos Gabriel García commented on Barrick Gold’s Manuel Rocha’s insistence that the government must comply with its agreement with Barrick. Gabriel García referred to this as “challenging” the national interest.


According to the Dominican portal, El Nacional, Deputy García believes that Rocha aims to silence the domestic sectors that have spoken out in favor of revising the agreement with Barrick, in which the Dominican government “will receive crumbs in exchange for its gold.”

 

He said it seems that Rocha is unaware that the company Place Dome was the one that won the bid to explore for gold and that the agreement signed back in 2002 was beneficial to the Dominican government.
The author of the draft resolution of the Chamber of Deputies that asks the government for a revision of the agreement with Barrick, believes that “this agreement cannot be above the interests of the country.”

Rocha, Barrick Gold representative in the DR, defended the 2009 gold exploration agreement with the government. “Since the beginning, we have been very clear that this contract was negotiated in a process that went on for nearly 2 years, between the government and the company along with an expert brought in from Europe, France specifically, and from the Inter-American Development Bank,” he said.
But in fact that gold exploration agreement is a big scam , with so many picky details that dominicans will never see a dime out of the mine, and the dominicans see themselves in the eyes of Chile, where Barrick Gold spend  16 years exploiting a Chilean mines, and Barrick Gold NEVER pay a dime out of it.

The Chamber of Deputies decided that three commissions will present a report on the agreement with Barrick Gold. Mateo Aquino Febrillet, Rector of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), is one of the illustrious Dominicans who also supports the revision of the agreement.

 In the Dominican Republic, meanwhile, the soaring price of gold has the government wanting more from the Pueblo Viejo mine, which has 20 million ounces of gold reserves as well as silver, copper and zinc.

Barrick owns 60 percent of the venture and Goldcorp Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia, owns 40 percent. The companies reopened the mine last year after investing nearly $4 billion, the largest direct foreign investment ever in the Dominican Republic, and have estimated it will eventually pay about $7 billion to the government.

But President Danilo Medina and Congress have yet to see any money. They want to rewrite the 25-year contract, which promises royalties only after the two Canadian companies recoup their investment and the venture's profits rise above 10 percent.

Barrick's executives "have to change their attitude, because if they don't, the president has told them: 'Either you negotiate or more taxes will be imposed,'" said Ramon Peralta, Medina's administrative minister.


 President Danilo Medina’s "prudent deadline" issued to Barrick Gold Corp to renegotiate the gold mining contract expires today and has the population on edge awaiting the outcome of the standoff between the government and the Canada-based company which operates the facility at Pueblo Viejo (central), El Caribe reports.


It said Medina is expected to refer to the topic this week before leaving for the summit in Costa Rica.
The chief executive is expected to announce the result of the talks before month’s end, according to Presidency Administrative minister José Ramón Peralta.

Medina’s deadline to Barrick Gold formed part of his speech to Congress on February 27, and has since been accompanied by the retention of several shipments of ore at Customs, on violations including the miner’s mistaken ship manifest of the precious metal’s country-of-origin ( smuggling).

 In country after country, the world's biggest miners are facing new environmental standards, confronting changing tax and currency laws and defending long-term contracts they thought were written in stone.
 

Barrick gold only provides misery  and toxic  pollution to the communities were they go.They use tons of cyanide and mercury  in their operations for gold extraction, regardless of poor peasants, crops, river and cattle in  the exploited areas.

The situation now is just unbearable for the affected communities..And there are a lot of riots every week  in different part of Dominican republic because of that.

They have a long history of scams, heavy pollution, illness, bribery and heavy metal contamination.

In a small island like Dominican Republic the consequences are simply lethal... 
They are just destroying the island, were no other kind of human, vegetable or animal kind of life can surface out of there in any circumstances...

Say no to Barrick Gold TODAY !

Comité contra la Megaminería llama a movilización nacional los días 23 y 24 de abril





Las organizaciones que integran el Comité Contra la Megaminería y el Uso del Cianuro (CCMM) llamaron este martes a la población a movilizarse los días 23 y 24 de abril en sendas “Jornadas por la vida y la soberanía”, que busca hacer frente a los atropellos de los que son víctimas tanto la población y como el medio ambiente.

Entre las exigencias están la anulación del contrato con la minera Barrick Gold, preservación de Loma Miranda, el pago de salarios justos a los trabajadores, anulación de la última reforma fiscal y que se dejen sin efecto los contractos con las compañías generadoras de electricidad.

“El pueblo dominicano es víctima de las más grandes injusticias, el costo de la canasta familiar se ha incrementado de manera exorbitante, los impuestos se tragan nuestros salarios y el patrimonio nacional está siendo cedido a intereses extranjeros en condiciones desiguales. Ante tales atropellos es tiempo de que la población se lance a las calles en señal de rechazo a todas las medidas tomadas por el Gobierno”, sostuvo Escalin Gutiérrez, vocera del comité.

Gutiérrez reiteró que la protesta cuenta con respaldo nacional y que en Cotuí, Santiago, La Vega, Bonao, Barahona, San Francisco de Macorís y algunos barrios de la capital habrá movilizaciones.


(For more information check the forum "say no to barrick gold pirates " at www.dominicantoday.com )

Every single day this company say or does something nasty nationwide or worldwide..
It could be heavy pollution, fraud, scam,ripoff, illness,fines,misery, evictions, cyanide,breaking the law, etc, etc, you name it..

There is only negativism and bad news from them..over , and over, and over..
And the worst of all,  is the impunity that they get..

It feels like a bad new karma over dominican people..

Why they just simply go home?

Barrick Gold: Lo verdaderamente Inaceptable

25 de marzo del 2013


“¡Eso es sencillamente INACEPTABLE!”. Danilo Medina Sanchez

Las operaciones de la empresa de la Barrick Gold en el mundo se caracterizan por la destrucción del medio ambiente, la corrupción política, los conflictos sociales, los abusos contra los derechos humanos, la complicidad de las autoridades y el consumo de cantidades de agua y energía.

La empresa enarbola el principio de “minería responsable”, pero desde Argentina hasta Canadá, pasando por Chile, Perú, Honduras, y desde el Congo hasta Papua Nueva Guinea, las protestas, las críticas, los conflictos generados por la Barrick no dejan de estar presente.

¿Porque nos sorprendemos? ¿Qué nos dice el buen sentido? ¿Qué expresa el sentido común? ¿Cuáles son los intereses a defender? ¿Cómo pondera un Presidente a la Barrick Gold?

Conociendo los peligrosos antecedentes de la Barrick Gold la empresa minera aurífera más grande del mundo, que van desde evitar toda responsabilidad por la destructora herencia ambiental que dejan sus proyectos, aliarse a políticos corruptos, ocultar y omitir información, hasta recurrir a la violencia contra los críticos de sus operaciones, se hace necesario asumir el deber de defender nuestros recursos naturales, con la determinación, el valor y el arrojo que demandan las circunstancias.

Los peligros de la Barrick Gold: Más allá del esquema fiscal y el valor del oro.

Cuando analizamos al detalle los artículos contenidos en el Acuerdo Especial de Arrendamiento de Derechos Mineros entre el Estado Dominicano y Barrick Gold Corporation, concluimos en que el contrato es lesivo para los intereses del país, porque viola la Constitución de la República y las leyes nacionales de minería y medio ambiente.

La República Dominicana está sujeta a lo que la empresa decida sobre cuándo, cómo y cuánto pagará. Y, con el historial que tiene la Barrick Gold, se corre el riesgo de que siempre declare pérdidas para no pagar, tal y como lo hicieron en la mina El Indio, en Chile. En esa nación suramericana, los ejecutivos de la Barrick declararon pérdidas durante dieciséis años.

El Estado Dominicano autorizó a la empresa Barrick Gold para desviar corrientes de agua y decidió asumir todos los cargos que pudiesen aplicársele por el uso o consumo de ese líquido.

En relación a los derechos del Agua, el Estado dominicano se comprometió a proveer a Pueblo Viejo Dominicana (PVDC) todos los permisos y autorizaciones para el uso de agua que sea necesaria en las operaciones, además acordó asumir “los cargos que pudieran aplicarse por el uso de agua y otros cargos de cualquier clase que el INDRHI u otra institución pudieran facturar y/o requerir a PVDC por el uso y consumo del agua”


Sabemos que la explotación aurífera a cielo abierto requiere de miles de millones de litros de agua anualmente, más los explosivos, el mercurio y el cianuro, todo en grandes cantidades, y más aún si se quiere sacar miles de onzas de oro, plata y otros minerales potenciales por años.

Los propósitos expansivos de la multinacional a través de la creación de tres empresas subsidiarias, ubicadas en puntos estratégicos para la producción de agua, atentan contra todo el territorio dominicano, tal es el caso de Dajabón, el Valle de San Juan de la Maguana y las cordilleras Septentrional y Central los cuales están en la mira de Barrick Gold.

En lo referente a ya sus brigadas transitan libremente por la Cordillera Central con el propósito de ubicar su línea de transmisión eléctrica desde Puerto Viejo de Azua, hasta Pueblo Viejo, Cotuí.

De igual modo, por las zonas cordilleranas de Azua, San José de Ocoa y Monseñor Nouel, están despojando a los campesinos de sus tierras, pagándoles en base a cotizaciones de hace veinte años y amenazándoles con la sentencia de “las vende o se las quitamos”. ¿ A quién le preocupa esto, que no es tributación?

La Barrick Gold, con la anuencia del gobierno dominicano, avanza en sus propósitos expansivos, colocándonos en una situación que implican peligros ambientales, sociales y de la propiedad, en todo nuestro territorio.



Es oportuna la ocasión para exigir al pueblo canadiense a su gobierno demandar la debida responsabilidad de la compañía Barrick por la corrupción, la manipulación de información y la destrucción del medio ambiente y los abusos de su industria minera a nivel mundial.

Los trucos en los embarques de oro de Barrick.

Por: R. Osiris de León.

En la pasada semana, el pueblo dominicano quedó sísmicamente estremecido, cuando se dio a conocer que la Dirección General de Aduanas Dominicanas había retenido un embarque de Doré (aleación de oro y plata), procedente de la nueva colonizadora minera Barrick Gold, debido a que la empresa minera se negaba a que las paletas, herméticamente selladas, fuesen abiertas, como debe ser, para fines de revisión y verificación aduanal, bajo el ridículo alegato de que los sellos sólo podían ser abiertos en Canadá, lugar hacia donde se exportaba el Doré.

Sin embargo, la retención del embarque de Doré, que podría ser el No.21 de los últimos seis meses, cada uno realizado del mismo modo, sirvió para descubrir uno de los fraudes más escandalosos cometidos por la industria minera contra nuestro país, ya que inteligentemente en el manifiesto de embarque se consignaba a Estados Unidos como lugar de origen del Doré, lo que podría pasar desapercibido frente al ciudadano común, pero no ante los ojos de quienes sabemos de minería.

Quizás pocos dominicanos conocen que Barrick Gold opera 13 minas de oro en los Estados Unidos, y si el oro dominicano es exportado hacia Canadá como originado en Estados Unidos, se sobrestima la producción de sus minas en USA y se subvalúa la producción de oro dominicano, y para fines de recuperación de su triple inflada inversión dominicana, para fines de alcanzar su tasa interna de retorno del 10%, y para fines del pago al Estado Dominicano del 28.75% de Participación en la Utilidades Netas (PUN), ese oro no cuenta, porque oficialmente nunca se produjo aquí porque nunca se exportó como originado en la Rep. Dominicana, y así la Barrick nunca tendría que pagar por ese oro.

Y usted diría, pero claro que el oro se produjo aquí y se exportó, porque la planta metalúrgica de Cotuí está operando a plena capacidad desde el último trimestre del año 2012, y tiene capacidad para moler diariamente 24,000 toneladas métricas de mineral sulfuroso, lo que indica que si el mineral enviado a molienda contiene 2 gramos de oro por tonelada, y la recuperación alcanza el 91%, se obtienen 1,400 onzas de oro diariamente, pero si el mineral enviado a molienda contiene 4 gramos de oro por tonelada, se obtienen 2,800 onzas de oro por día, sin variar el proceso ni los costos operativos, pudiendo enviar mineral de 5 y 6 gramos de oro por tonelada, y ahí es donde comienzan los trucos.

La primera parte del truco se inicia cuando la empresa envía a molienda mineral rico de 4 gr. Au/ton, pero reporta mineral normal de 2 gr. Au/ton, y engaña diariamente al Gobierno con 1,400 onzas de oro que las exporta hacia Canadá como producidas en Estados Unidos, y que a los precios actuales representaría unos 850 millones de dólares al año que se llevaría a escondidas sin que el dueño del oro reciba nada.

La segunda parte del truco se monta cuando la Barrick anuncia públicamente que en sus primeros años va a producir unas 625,000 onzas de oro anualmente, cuando en realidad va a producir más de un millón de onzas de oro anualmente, pero para que los números cuadren, la diferencia excedente tiene que ser exportada discretamente como originada en sus minas de Estados Unidos, y esa producción de oro no entra en la contabilidad dominicana. Por eso en el manifiesto de embarque del Doré se puso como país de origen: Estados Unidos, lo que hasta ahora había contado con la complicidad de personal aduanal.

La tercera parte del truco está en el uso de la palabra Doré en el manifiesto de embarque, pues Doré es un término genérico aplicable a toda aleación de oro y plata, pero sin especificar cuánto es oro y cuánto es plata, lo que le permite a la Barrick jugar a su discreción con las cantidades de oro y de plata que coloca en cada embarque, y reportar al Gobierno lo que ella quiera, pues mientras el oro hoy está a US$1,600/onza, la plata se cotiza a US$29/onza, es decir, el oro hoy está costando 55 veces más que la plata, y así en cada embarque gran parte del oro caro se exporta disfrazado como plata barata.

Lamentablemente la Dirección General de Aduanas Dominicanas no tiene cómo determinar cuánto oro y cuánta plata va en cada embarque de Doré, pues sólo el laboratorio químico puede determinarlo y para ello hay que tomar muestras del metal y analizarlas mediante espectro fotómetro, cosa que Aduanas no tiene, aunque puede encargar estudios a laboratorios privados nacionales y extranjeros.

Es importante destacar que la retención de este embarque no respondía a una inspección aleatoria, como quiso decir Aduanas, sino a una firme decisión presidencial correctamente adoptada para presionar a la empresa minera y obligarla a que se siente a renegociar un Contrato que le deja a ella el 97% de los beneficios reportados y a los dominicanos el 3%, pero como se puede ver, gracias a los trucos, lo reportado tiende a ser la mitad de lo realmente producido, y así los indígenas de Quisqueya estamos siendo nuevamente engañados por los colonizadores que desde hace 500 años han venido a buscar oro.

Barrick Gold concession violates laws

Barrick Gold concession violates laws

Deputies say Dominicans Barrick concession violates laws
Posted March 6, 2013 Associated Press
SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - A special committee of the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic reported Wednesday that the millionaire contract granting a gold mine to Barrick violates several local laws, and therefore recommends that immediate review or annulment.

"We have the options of submitting an override of the Barrick contract with the state because there is sufficient evidence, legal elements," said Demosthenes Martinez, chairman of the justice committee of the House.

Martinez reported that according to a study by a multiple commission, the contract contravenes 10 articles of the energy bill, as well as at least five of the environmental law and several provisions of the constitution.

The agreement, originally negotiated in 2002, was amended by an amendment passed by Congress (bicameral) in September 2009.

After months of protests against various sectors of the mining concession considering leaving few economic benefits to the country, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Abel Martinez, requested in February to justice commissions, environment and energy, submit the agreement to a new study.

The tripartite committee concluded its report on Wednesday, which will be discussed in the coming days by the full House of Representatives, said Alejandro Jerez, president of the energy committee.

The Canadian Barrick Gold and Goldcorp acquired in 2006 the concession to operate for 25 years the Pueblo Viejo mine, 100 kilometers north of the capital, with a proven reserve of 20 million ounces of gold. The miner also extract silver and zinc.

Using an adaptation of the contract in question, passed in 2009 by both houses of Congress, Barrick will begin to pay the state profits from the exploitation of the mine only when you have recovered their entire investment and achieved a 10% return.

Until these conditions are met, the state will receive only 3.2% of the profits and income tax.

President Manuel Rocha miner said last week that the mining company has invested nearly 4,000 million, the highest foreign direct investment in the history of the Dominican Republic.

President Danilo Medina warned last February 27, introducing his first government report that Barrick should renegotiate the contract, considering it "unacceptable" because of a presumed allow the company to remain "virtually all" the benefit of the mineral extraction and export, which began in mid-2012.

   
Medina said that gold prices have increased from $ 298 an ounce since negotiating a $ 1,700 grant, without representing more immediate benefits for the country.

Not to accept a renegotiation, Medina warned the mining submit a bill to impose new taxes on the "windfall profits" of the mining industry by the increase in metal prices.

While insisting that the company is open to dialogue, the Pueblo Viejo Barrick spokesman, Jorge Esteva, said this week in an interview with a local television station to "renegotiate the contract, redefine the rules, change the legal framework that protects the investment, that is not on the table ".

Esteva told The Associated Press that negotiations to adapt the contract in 2009 lasted 27 months and also passes through both houses of Congress and was enacted by the executive branch.

Trajano Potentini from the Justice and Transparency Foundation (FJT), reported Sunday that the contract with the company Barrick Gold, as well as being harmful, illegal and unjust, so Olympic violates the Constitution, in relation to the constitutional principles of equality, equity and proportionality, privileges almost absolute tax exemptions, as well as issues of health, environment, international treaties, and the General Mining Law.

Trajano Potentini president of the FJT considered mockery, a challenge and a provocation of the head of the Barrick Gold in the country, when required by the Dominican State to fulfill an agreement that is illegal, unjust and unacceptable.

"It is a contract full of constitutional and legal violations, specifically the Mining Law of the Dominican Republic, it is a nightmare, a dismal and unfortunate experience for the country, which now requires the will and determination of the authorities and the Dominican people in a relentless struggle to reclaim our heritage, "he said.

                                           Cancellation of contract

He stressed that the consensus position of the FJT, is that the contract is totally null reference, both by general principles of law that establish the invalidity of the conventions that repealing public order regulations, as express provision of Article 19 in fine of the Mining Law No.146 "the terms of the contracts may not be less favorable to the national economic interest that under this law."

He said the contract Barrick Gold violates Articles 32, 43, 75, 95, 98 letter g), 129, 133, 134, 137 and 138 including the Mining Law of the Dominican Republic, No. 146, dated 16 June 1971, published in Official Gazette No. 9231, resulting void.

Trajano said that among the many violations attributed to the contract between the Dominican State and Barrick Gold, was identified as Article 98 directs the Dominican Mining Law, which within six following the granting of the concession, the Barrick Gold due constitute a Dominican company to carry out the operation, which has not done yet. For this reason alone, the award is null and void.

The battle between Barrick Gold and dominican goverment..and their negotiators

Losses by Barrick Gold increase value of Pueblo Viejo
Issue of judicial security divides business community

SANTO DOMINGO. The exploitation of the gold mine which the Barrick Gold mining company is administering in Dominican territory is one of the businesses which the Canadian company is betting on to improve it earnings, given the decrease in earnings in 2012 and the demands of investors for a change in the gold industry.

Peruvian miners in front of Barrick Gold installations in Cotui, Dominican republic


In a report published by the mining company on its webpage, dated 14 February, which contains the results of the company's behavior in 2012, the company reports a net loss of US$3.06 billion (US$3.06 per share) in the fourth quarter of the year, "including a US$4.2 billion after-tax impairment charge primarily related to our copper business unit."

For all of 2012 Barrick reported a net loss of US$0.67 billion (US$670,000,000) and US$0.66 a share, "including after-tax impairment charges of $4.4 billion." (NT: "Adjusted net earnings of $3.83 billion ($3.82 per share) were the second highest in the company's history.

The high costs, beyond what was foreseen, are taking the company to the decision to sell Barrick Energy and not expand the copper mine at Lumwana, Zambia.

In the meantime, the company is focusing on the 1.5 million ounces of gold of the average annual production of Pueblo Viejo and Pascua-Lama. Pueblo Viejo, in the Dominican Republic has gold reserves of 25,300,000 ounces and is one of the largest undeveloped gold deposits in the world. Pascua-Lama, on the border between Argentina and Chile has proven and probable reserves of 17.9 million ounces of gold.

in other words, Dominican republic have to be the one that help Barrick Gold to avoid the same net  loss at ANY COST.That includes you , me and everything you know so far in DR.




"We have a number of world class mineral resources around the world that have considerable economic potential, but at the present time they do not comply with our investment criteria. In the meantime, we are going to spent the minimum amount of capital needed to maintain the economic potential of these assets," says the Barrick report by Jamie Solkalsky, the CEO of Barrick Gold Corporation.

On 27 February, President Danilo Medina issued a "last" call for Barrick Gold to sit down with the government to revise the fiscal aspects of the contract for the exploitation of Pueblo Viejo, since he considers the current scheme of distribution of the income from the sale of gold to be "unacceptable."


The mining company has stated its willingness, but says that it faces limitations due to the commitments undertaken with the institutions that are financing the project.

The specialist in mediation and a negotiation consultant, Nelson Espinal Baez, said that the fact that the mining company lowered its global earnings "is not an objective criteria for opposing a renegotiation (process) with the Dominican government."

this is the profile of the negotiator from barrick gold:Nelson Espinal Báez


Associate MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program at Harvard Law School. Abogado, Mediador y Consultor en Negociación
Dominican Republic Alternative Dispute Resolution
Summary

CIC - Cambridge International Consulting,Abogado, mediador, consultor en negociación, árbitro y profesor universitario, Associate MIT- Harvard Public Disputes Program at Harvard Law School, consorcio universitario formado por la Universidad de Harvard y el Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) para la investigación y desarrollo de la teoría y la práctica de las negociaciones complejas, la mediación de conflictos públicos y la construcción de consenso en políticas públicas.

Do you think the government officials have such an expert in negotiations as well?



And this is the expert from the government..


who would you choose?


Vincho Castillo advierte Barrick debe medir consecuencias ante negación
Publicado por Noticias SIN en marzo 7, 2013

SANTO DOMINGO, República Dominicana.- El director general de Ética e Integridad Gubernamental, Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho), advirtió este jueves a la Barrick Gold, medir las consecuencias que pudieran desprenderse ante la negación al diálogo con el gobierno, el cual busca una salida racional y equilibrada a favor de los intereses colectivos de la nación.

Castillo se refirió al tema durante su discurso en acto de juramentación de la Comisión de Ética del Ministerio de Hacienda, al explicar que se han analizado las variables del precio en el mercado del oro desde el momento en que se estableció contrato y cómo han surgido factores de rigor que exigen una revisión justa y equitativa, porque se han transformado los beneficios.

“El precio del oro se ha enmendado y se ha encargado de desquiciar el contrato, de desajustarlo, de hacerlo inicuo; razón por la que se le ha pedido tomar medidas razonables en base a la equidad, de lo contrario, creo que el gobierno debe estar pensando en las consecuencias y en la ley para fijar los impuestos”, apuntó el funcionario.


En el acto estuvo presente Simón Lizardo, ministro de Hacienda quien también destacó la importancia de reviste el cumplimiento ..

I am sure we will see a nice fight but at the end, we hope we will see the Dominican people wining..

The  problems of Barrick Gold in Dominican Republic 

The contemporary history of the Pueblo Viejo gold mine, which produces gold oxide at the top and gold sulfide at the bottom, begins in 1975 with Rosario Resources Corporation, a company that later passed into the hands of the Dominican State under the name Rosario Dominicana, and whose operations ceased permanently in 1999 because of economic and environmental factors. In 2002, the mine found a new leaseholder, the Canadian company Placer Dome, which signed a 33-year contract before being bought by another Canadian company, Barrick Gold, in 2006. Barrick Gold has been in the sights of the Dominicans some of the details about the signed contract were made public, a contract which was approved at the end of 2009 in Congress by the vast majority of legislators.


The renegotiation of the contract with the Dominican State when Barrick Gold acquired Placer Dome followed the movement of gold prices in the stock market, which has risen substantially since 2002 in response to successive food and financial crises – both of a global reach- until it reached a price of more than US$1000 an ounce, where it currently stands.

 The original contract signed with Placer Dome held the State's profits to the price of gold, which meant that the higher the price on the market, the greater the profits for the Stage. Geologist and blogger Osiris de León explains it this way [es]:

(…) como el precio del oro ha ido en ascenso rápido y ha superado los 1,000 dólares por onza, ello implicaría una participación del Estado en las Utilidades Netas (PUN) de US$194 millones por año, fruto de que la Barrick piensa producir en Pueblo Viejo un millón de onzas de oro anualmente, y al multiplicar 1,000,000 de onzas de oro por US$775, que es el diferencial entre el precio del oro en este momento (US$1,050/onza) y el costo de producción (US$275/onza), y luego multiplicarlo por el 25%, obtenemos unos 194 millones de dólares anuales para el Estado. Y la Barrick se niega a entregar tanto dinero.

Por tal razón la Barrick Gold ha obligado al Estado Dominicano a una renegociación del contrato original, a fin de que esa participación estatal del 25% de las utilidades netas sea llevada a cero, óigase bien, a cero, mientras ellos no hayan obtenido una tasa interna de retorno (TIR) de un 10% y hasta haber recuperado los US$2,585 millones invertidos para desarrollar el proyecto, y a partir de ahí pagar un 28.75% como PUN, con lo cual la Barrick le quita 194 millones de dólares anuales al pueblo dominicano, durante al menos los primeros 6 años de operación, lo que implicaría que durante esos 6 años el pobre pueblo dominicano dejaría de percibir unos 1,164 millones de dólares, a los precios de hoy.

 For this reason, Barrick Gold has forced the Dominican State to renegotiate the original contract, so that the state share of 25% of net profits will be brought to zero, pay attention, to zero, while they have not obtained a rate of return of 10% and until they had recovered the US$2,585 billion invested to develop the project, and thereafter pay a 28.75% as PUN, which means Barrick takes away the US$194 million annually from the Dominican people during at least the first 6 years of operation, implying that during those 6 years the Dominican people would stop earning of US$1,164 million at today's prices.

 While some people believe that the contract leaves the Dominican Republic at a clear disadvantage, this is not the only reason for protest. There is concern about the effects that the operations of Barrick Gold will have on the environment, due to the bad reputation the consortium has on a global scale, which has not escaped the attention of Dominicans. Indeed, there have been public protests [es] and various groups have utilized groups on Facebook [es]The blog also provides details of the contract approved by Dominican lawmakers, forced evictions for area residents, and the work currently being performed by Barrick Gold in the readjustment of the mine, which has made headlines in recent days for the intoxication of over 300 peruvian  workers for reasons still unexplained.   While the company talks about food poisoning [es],a regular  lie) others insist that the poisoning was due a a boiler explosion  

Barrick Gold has felt a lot of pressure in the Dominican Republic that it has seen the urgent need for a public relations program, which includes the publication of statements in paid advertisement spaces in national newspapers and on national television. Their representatives leave no doubt the benefits that their presence is having in Cotuí.

Despite the public relations efforts, people are continuing to protest. For Holy Week, there is a planned 4-day pilgrimage walk that will depart from Km. 9 of the Duarte Highway towards the mining installation in Cotuí. March organizers expect more than 10,000 people to walk the 105 kilometers to protest against Barrick Gold and to protect the environment in Cotuí, which has been damaged by the operations of Rosario Dominicana, as explained by Alexander Medina, who has 30 years of experience in the mining sector [es].

Una vez procesados los óxidos de oro, los sulfuros quedaron expuestos y la mina fue abandonada a su suerte, permitiendo que esta drenara hasta la Presa de Hatillo aguas ácidas del río Margajita, producidas por la mezcla del agua de lluvia y el mineral de los sulfuros de oro que quedó al descubierto. Otro impacto ambiental negativo legado por Rosario es la acumulación de metales pesados como el hierro, cobre y mercurio en el sitio de la vieja planta y en los lodos del lecho de los ríos Mejita y Margajita.

Once the gold oxide was processed, the sulfides were exposed and the mine was abandoned to its fate, allowing acidic waters from the Margajita River to drain away to the Hatillo Dam.

 The acidic water is the result of a mixture of rainwater and the minerals from the gold sulfides that have remained exposed. Another legacy of negative environmental impact from Rosario is the accumulation of heavy metals like iron, copper, and mercury at the site of the old plant and the sludge from Mejita and Margajita Rivers.

 

Paola Mejía Sandoval, of the group NO A LA BARRICK GOLD, BATEALA Y SACALA DEL PAIS [es] (No to Barrick Gold, bat them and kick them out of the country) summarizes the feelings from some Dominicans towards Barrick Gold:

Si no peleamos ahora por defender lo que es nuestro quizas manana dej de pertenecernos entonces, por que lucharemos??? nosotros debemos plantarnos en favor de nuestros ideales. NO A LA BARRICK GOLD EN REPUBLICA DOMINICANA.

If we do not fight to defend what is ours, maybe tomorrow it may stop belonging to us. Why do we fight?? We should stand up for our ideals. No to Barrick Gold in the Dominican Republic.

The reality of Barrick Gold in Dominican Republic

Barrick Gold contract and contamination in Dominican Republic

So we want to create some statement about what we think is Horrible for our beloved country , D.R.
it's not an super ecological movement..It's basically about the future of our nation..

Historically speaking , no nation in the world had get out of a third world situation through mining..In fact their situation has getting worst and worst..Specially with such a destructive contract made by Barrick Gold and some lobbyist in our congress..Like Tanzania, Bolivia, the frontier between Chile and Argentina,South Africa, Papua New guinea, etc, etc..do they look developed countries to you?


We are getting conscious of the damage and the poisoning they are doing to our nation , specially after they poison our waters , resources and mind ..Like they did in 1492


 Hatillo Dam, Is country’s most important freshwater source. Measuring 22 square kilometers, the dam irrigates the Cibao’s rice fields, the country’s main staple food, as well as numerous other crops both for national consumption and export.

  2010

La presa de Hatillo es la mas grande reserva de agua dulce en el pais, y asi se encuentra ahora despues de la llegada de la Barrick Gold: Usted beberia de ella ahora?


Nobody can spreed poison in Our land, Our humble people and Our concious!


What are we going to tell our future generations when they ask why we didn't do anything to stop the destruction of our beautiful land?



Be proactive!

Hatillo Dam

 La Presa de hatillo era un lugar de esparcimiento para las familias, donde estaba el agua para regar las cosechas, y un lugar de pesca, un patrimonio de la nacion..
..Ahora es simplemente uno de los basureros mas de la BG

Ni usted ni ninguno de sus hijos usara JAMAS la presa de Hatillo gracias a la Barrick Gold,. una compania que NO da trabajo, No lo beneficia a usted, No construye y solo trae muerte y enfermedades a cualquier parte del mundo a donde va..


La pregunta es : Vale la pena tener una compania asi en nuestra tierra?

They admited that they were usin a huge amount of cyanide :


"Posteriormente, y durante el programa del buen amigo Dr. Julio Hazim, el ejecutivo máximo en el país de la Barrick Gold admitió que esa empresa usará en el proceso de explotación del oro en Cotuí el cianuro, con lo cual quedaba confirmada la información obtenida, y que fuera hecha pública por quien esto escribe en conversación con el gran amigo don Álvaro Arvelo, en el programa El Gobierno de la Mañana, a quien el país debe agradecer sus valerosas denuncias públicas sobre los abusos de la empresa minera.

La información de que la Barrick Gold va a importar una gran cantidad de cianuro a la República Dominicana, debe de poner en auto a las autoridades dominicanas, en su ineludible deber de exigir que se cumplan de forma rigurosa las estrictas medidas de seguridad (conforme a las normas del Consejo Internacional de Metales y Medio Ambiente con Sede en Ontario), que eviten o reduzcan a la mínima expresión la posibilidad de un accidente que pueda generar una catástrofe ecológica, de magnitudes nunca vistas en nuestro territorio.

El peligro que acecha al país es mucho más grave cuando se examina la actitud de la Barrick Gold sobre la última experiencia de intoxicación masiva en Cotuí. En vez de declarar la realidad de lo ocurrido, se optó por otorgar una versión pública que nadie creyó, relativa a intoxicación de alimentos, lo que fue desmentido por un estudio técnico y científico dado a conocer por la UASD la semana pasada, que atribuye a una emanación de gas tóxico lo ocurrido.

Source: http://listindiario.com/puntos-de-vista/2010/3/28/136609/La-Barrick-Gold-y-el-cianuro

Que la gente sepa que hay dominicanos con conciencia y pantalones!