| Cockpit Country Residents - Endangered |
| Friday, 24 November 2006 | |
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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.
Unfortunately, despite all these consultative efforts, the project did not move forward, in part because a guarantee that bauxite mining would never take place was not forthcoming. Read more here. |
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