Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Have you ever heard of Tiomin?

We have an environmental monster we are fighting in Kenya, called Tiomin. They are a based in Canada, thanks maple leaf; and they are known to be in the business of total disregard of environment especially when the mining rights are in Africa.
The company happens to but they hands on Titanium which is abundantly found on Kenyan Coast. Here is the interesting part, they are willing to pay the farmers 5 US dollars per acre of hand for them to mine titanium on their land. No loyalties, nadaa, five backs for your land, or they grab it by force. Guess the method they prefer to mine... trip mining. After they are done with the land, you can't even grape your goats, because all the fertile soil is gone.
I know you are wondering, where is the government; they are part of the kickback system. Long live the queen.

http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=1581

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