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DoomsdaysCW<p>Exclusive- <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> supporter <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ErikPrince</span></a> reaches deal with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congo</span></a> to help secure [steal] mineral wealth</p><p>Jessica Donati and Sonia Rolley<br>Thu, April 17, 2025 </p><p>Excerpt: "Democratic Republic of Congo has vast reserves of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>copper</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cobalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cobalt</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lithium</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coltan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coltan</span></a> - a mineral used widely in smartphones, computers and electric vehicles - but has been plagued for decades by violence in its eastern region.</p><p>"The agreement between Congo and Prince initially involved a plan to deploy contractors to Goma, the capital of North Kivu province and the largest city in eastern Congo. But Goma is now under M23 control and that plan has been put on hold. M23 controls tracts of mineral-rich territory.</p><p>"A source close to the Congolese government told Reuters an initial deployment of Prince's advisers was expected to start in the south, far from the area controlled by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/M23" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>M23</span></a> and its allies.</p><p>" 'If you just look at Katanga, if you look at Kolwezi down just off the Zambian-Congo border, they claim that there's like $40 million a month in lost revenue of what's going out and what's coming in,' the source said.</p><p>"A diplomatic source also told Reuters the first stage of Prince's effort in Congo would focus on securing mines and tax revenues in copper-producing Katanga province.</p><p>"One of the sources close to Prince said advisers were expected to deploy with technical experts from a company specialised in testing and inspecting commodities. The advisers would initially target larger mines and expand as revenue collection improved.</p><p>"The source did not provide details on how the advisers would tackle corruption in the sector that has long drained revenue that would otherwise flow to the state.</p><p>"A source in the office of Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi said an agreement in principle had been signed with Prince, but the details on where and how many advisers would be deployed remained to be established."</p><p><a href="https://www.aol.com/news/exclusive-trump-supporter-prince-reaches-142935924.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aol.com/news/exclusive-trump-s</span><span class="invisible">upporter-prince-reaches-142935924.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ErikPrinceColonialism</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrivateArmy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Academi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TripleCanopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TripleCanopy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OffLeash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OffLeash</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProjectVeritas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectVeritas</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TigerSwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TigerSwan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiningPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiningPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a></p>
Ms. Que Banh<p>Experts working with the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNation</span></a> of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NaChoNy%C3%A4kDun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaChoNyäkDun</span></a> who have witnessed the fallout at <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VictoriaGoldEagle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VictoriaGoldEagle</span></a> mine near <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Mayo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mayo</span></a>, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Yukon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yukon</span></a>, say systems on-site are so severely compromised that damage to the land &amp; water is all but inevitable.</p><p>What they describe is a system rendered mostly <a href="https://beige.party/tags/inoperable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inoperable</span></a>, with each affected piece elevating <a href="https://beige.party/tags/risks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>risks</span></a> to the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> — every day.</p><p>On June 24, part of the Eagle <a href="https://beige.party/tags/mine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mine</span></a> failed and a massive <a href="https://beige.party/tags/RockSlide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RockSlide</span></a> involving roughly 4 million tonnes of material cleaved off a large piece of the facility where <a href="https://beige.party/tags/gold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gold</span></a> is extracted from ore using a chemical process called cyanide heap leach. Estimates put the amount of ore stacked on the heap leach pad — which functions as a giant industrial percolator — at nearly 4 times what was lost in the slide. </p><p>With the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/HeapLeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeapLeach</span></a> pad downed, experts say a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>toxic</span></a> soup of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SodiumCyanide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SodiumCyanide</span></a> &amp; other <a href="https://beige.party/tags/contaminants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contaminants</span></a> — up to 300,000 cubic metres of solution, according to the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/YukonGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YukonGovernment</span></a> — was released in the initial slide. Since then, they say, more of it has been draining. </p><p>The First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun has called the event "the region's most recent and potentially <a href="https://beige.party/tags/catastrophic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>catastrophic</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> failure."</p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/victoria-gold-mine-experts-1.7264503" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/north/victo</span><span class="invisible">ria-gold-mine-experts-1.7264503</span></a></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NativeLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeLand</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/EnvironmentalCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/GoldMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoldMine</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MiningIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiningIndustry</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CorporateGreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateGreed</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/GreedKills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreedKills</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CDNpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CDNpoli</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AbolishIndustryLobbyists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbolishIndustryLobbyists</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MiningPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiningPollution</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/EcoJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EcoJustice</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Ecological" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecological</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arctic</span></a></p>
corpwatch<p>Navajo tribal members say they do not trust clean up plan for 100 uranium &amp; vanadium mine waste piles left by Kerr-McGee Corporation &amp; others in Lukachukai Mountains of Arizona. “We’d like to see these remediation activities carried out in a timely fashion, not 40 years from now.” </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MiningPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiningPollution</span></a></p><p><a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/navajos-worry-uranium-superfund-addition-is-a-false-epa-promise" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.bloomberglaw.com/environm</span><span class="invisible">ent-and-energy/navajos-worry-uranium-superfund-addition-is-a-false-epa-promise</span></a></p>