Even so, some Canadian observers are up in arms. Jennifer Moore, Latin America co-ordinator for MiningWatch Canada, said the company’s behaviour is “absolutely inappropriate.”
Although Infinito says it would be active in clean-up and reforestation after extraction, during email correspondence with Embassy, Mr. Lobo wrote in Spanish that the comments he made in the documentary warned that the mining project could possibly cause “tailing dam failures” which can lead to water contamination and landslides.
Mr. Lobo wrote that the company cleared 80 hectares of forest and secondary vegetation, causing considerable damage to tropical ecosystems, before stopping its operations in 2010.
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