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Chile lawyers braced for environmental battles
Business-friendly Chile is likely to be the scene for numerous legal clashes this year between local communities and mining companies, according to environment specialists.
Chile is likely to be the scene for numerous legal clashes this year between local communities and power and other big companies FXEGS Javier Espuny
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'This year is going to be very conflictive,' says Alvaro Toro, a lawyer working with OLCA, the environmental NGO. Until now, power projects have been the main focus of community action. However, Mr Toro says that companies mining copper are also being targeted. Independent lawyer Lorenzo Soto said: 'The questioning of big mining is just getting started.' He led the case against Barrick's Pascua-Lama goldmine project, suspended last year for threatening the purity of the water supply. 'I can't absorb all the requests I'm receiving. We haven't reached the peak of the wave yet.' Campaigns are off the ground against all the divisions of Codelco, the world's largest copper miner, he adds. Source: Reuters
