Webinar: Protecting Communities in the Clean Energy Transition
Learn about the choices before us and ways to take action.
Learn about the choices before us and ways to take action.
The growing demand for minerals used in renewable energy raises the urgency to address human rights and environmental abuses common in mining.
Three organizations from the Global South will provide this webinar to discuss the consequences of "clean energy" production on mining countries in the Global South. The extraction and processing of minerals for the production of solar panels, air generators, batteries and new technologies cause important social and environmental impacts, often making the concept of "clean energy" a contradiction in terms. We must ask ourselves: clean for whom?
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Dialogue of the Peoples (Africa - Latin America)
MOGC director Gerry Lee writes the reflection for this Sunday's readings.
In mid-August, the Guatemalan government deployed over 1,500 police to Monte Olivo to evict 160 families of the community 9 de Febrero in order to allow the construction of the Santa Rita dam to go forward.
The following piece, published in the November-December 2013 NewsNotes, was prepared by Eben Levey, an intern with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns.
Over the last four days, less than a month after President Perez Molina visited the town of Barillas in the department of Huehuetenango and announced the formation of a formal space for dialogue between communities, the government, and the hydroelectric companies Ecoener Hidralia Energía/Hidro Santa Cruz S.A., police and military actions have markedly increased.
MOGC director Gerry Lee writes the reflection for this Sunday's readings.
The following story was published in the September-October 2012 NewsNotes.