2013: A year of protests, conflicts of interest and lingering mysteries

In Romania, two proposals – opening Europe's largest open-cast gold mine and drilling for shale gas – drew thousands of protesters. In China, people protested not just the deadly smog that blankets their northern cities but also the government's inadequate flood-relief plans and proposals to build a refinery and uranium processing plant. In Nepal, locals staged a sit-in at a wire factory. In Malaysia, tribespeople blockaded the construction site of a new dam. In rural Mexico, wind farms drew demonstrations from native people.
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