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Nature has distributed her bounty in varying quantities among the various countries of the world; Jamaica, no less. Destroying the Cockpit Country may be financially viable to the bauxite companies, but what of the disturbed ecology and environment? Can we replace what we never created? Look at the hills in St. Ann that have now been flattened.
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Bauxite mining has gone on here for decades and we have paid the price of that "development". Check the people who live in and around these devastated landscapes. Ask them about their health, the health of their crops, their children, their animals.
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A balanced "development plan" for Cockpit Country was developed in 1998 with the support of the World Bank, but never pursued - leaving the region vulnerable to mining exploitation and the misleading belief that true progress can only be led by foreign corporations.
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Trelawny Parish Councillors have made their position clear: Bauxite mining is not wanted in the Cockpit Country. Fernandez 'Bingy' Smith, the vice-chairman of the Trelawny Parish Council's finance committee, has moved a motion to save the ecologically sensitive Cockpit Country from the backhoes of Alcoa Minerals of Jamaica and Clarendon Alumina Production (CAP).
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Although the Government has made it clear that it will not sanction mineral exploration in the Cockpit Country, residents of a number of communities in that section of Trelawny have been relocated, reportedly by miners who have bought land and have already started digging.
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