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Russ McSpadden

@PeccaryNotPig

Nov 6 • 7 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo

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Hudbay, the Canadian mining company pushing to mine the Santa Rita Mountains near Tucson, Ariz has a notorious history of human rights violations & environmental contamination. The company hired Peruvian National Police, who subsequently beat & teargassed villagers ...

...opposed to its Constancia Copper Mine. Hudbay’s security chief at a Guatemalan nickel mine pleaded guilty to murdering an indigenous leader opposed to the mine. Hudbay’s copper smelter in Flin Flon, Manitoba, poisoned the land & left elevated levels of lead in the blood ...

...of children. The company sued a First Nation tribe in Manitoba that opposed its mining operations.

How can they be trusted to mine in Arizona or anywhere?

The following are sources about their human rights violations and environmental damage:

1) Abusive North American Companies Pay Off Latin American Police to Harass Criticsips-dc.org/abusive-north-…

2) Mynor Padilla: Killer of anti-mining activist pleads guiltybbc.com/news/world-lat…

3) The influence of lead content in drinking water, household dust, soil, and paint on blood lead levels of children in Flin Flon, Manitoba and Creighton, Saskatchewan pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28343040/

4) HudBay sues First Nation over Idle No More blockade cbc.ca/news/canada/ma…

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@CenterForBioDiv

Today @CenterForBioDiv filed a notice of intent to sue EPA for allowing decades-long failure to limit pollution in Queen Creek. Resolution Copper’s proposed mine would discharge copper & other pollutants into the creek. The mine would destroy Oak Flat. tinyurl.com/QCreek

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