Friday, July 16, 2010

Peru mining and social responsibility: an excellent report and video from Reuters

This is great journalism and should be required viewing/reading for anyone interested in the South American mining scene. Check out this video....



....and read the news report that accompanies the vid, as even those immersed in the sector will learn a lot. This isn't a report promoting one agenda or another, it's a fine job of work that goes beyond the obvious and looks for equitable solutions to today's problems. As the question posed at the end of the story poses:
How is it that a country that is increasingly well positioned in the global economy and has attracted loads of investment finds itself with so little public support for the projects on which it depends?
Quite right.