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Environmental Justice Atlas
The EJ Atlas is a teaching, networking and advocacy resource. Strategists, activist organizers, scholars, and teachers will find many uses for the database, as well as citizens wanting to learn more about the often invisible conflicts taking place.
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A PLANET IN DANGER: the world of CHEVRONChevron is well known around the world as a company that systematically applies the "Polluter does not Pay Principle". This scholar-activist collaborative mapping project shows stories of communities reclaiming justice. #DíaAntiChevron |
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Climate DebtThe overconsumption of the available capacity of the Earth’s atmosphere and climate system to absorb greenhouse gases by the developed countries has run up a climate debt to developing countries and Mother Earth. |
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Permanent Peoples Tribunal Hearing on Corporate Human Rights Violations and Peoples Access to JusticeOn the first anniversary of the UNHRC resolution to address corporate abuses, this Feature Map updates the state of some cases presented in the Geneva PPT Hearing. More to be reported very soon. |
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Fracking FrenzyThe high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”, generates serious and large-scale environmental and human health concerns. |
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Environmental Justice in Himachal Pradesh, IndiaEJAtlas collaboration with Himdhara collective. Despite the image of a "green state", the Himalayan state pursue increasing energy generation and industrial development by diluting laws and ignoring dissent. |
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Mining conflicts in Latin AmericaThe mining conflicts featured map presents cases of mining conflicts related to metal ores, industrial minerals and construction materials mining activities. Metal ores present the largest number of reported cases. |
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Seed laws around the worldUnder corporate pressure, laws in many countries increasingly put limitations on what farmers can do with their seeds and with the seeds they buy. This map gives a picture of of the situation across the world today. |
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Rio Tinto's lawsuit, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea The reopening the controversial Panguna copper mine in Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea, is in doubt. The anti-mining movement led to a ten-year war in 1989. A court case against Rio Tinto failed. |
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Alinta Northern Power Station in Port Augusta, South Australia After long standing concerns about people's health and the environment, the coal industry ends in Port Augusta, however justice issues continue as the local community loses jobs and fears for their future. |
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King-King copper and gold mine in Pantukan, Compostela, Mindanao, Philippines In January 2016, 60 years old Teresita Navacilla was killed. She was a member of the Save Pantukan Movement, a network of indigenous peoples fighting for the right to their ancestral lands and opposing large-scale open pit mining. |
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Thermoelectric Complex Parnaíba, Maranhao, Brazil ENEVA operates one of the largest natural gas-fuelled thermoelectric power generation complexes in Brazil. Local communities (such as "quebradeiras de coco") complain about pollution, health and environmental damage. |
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Exploración de petroleo en Bloque 7 y 21, Ecuador La historia de la explotación de los bloques 7 y 21 en la Reserva de la Biosfera Yasuní y territorio Huaorani |
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Loei villagers fight to stop the operation of Tungkum Limited gold mine; they built walls to block the road and denounced the contamination of water and land with cyanide, arsenic, and mercury |