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Chilean court suspends Barrick's Pascua-Lama mine project
2013-07-15 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Chilean appeals court on Monday suspended Barrick Gold Corp's controversial Pascua-Lama gold mine until the company builds infrastructure to prevent water pollution, and ordered the mine's environmental permit be reviewed. In April, the Copiapo Court of Appeals temporarily and preventively froze construction of the $8.5 billion project, which straddles the Chile-Argentine border high in the Andes, while it examined claims by indigenous communities that it has damaged pristine glaciers and...
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