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Chile fines and suspends Barrick Gold for contamination at major project
Chilean authorities have fined the world's largest gold mining company, Barrick Gold Corp, more than 16 million dollars for environmental offences. Construction at the Pascua-Lama mine, on the border with Argentina, has been suspended until a system to contain contaminated water is put in place. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThere is no excuse for this sort of disregard of agreements by the company.
May 27th, 2013 - 02:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think Eduardo Flores Zelaya needs to resign in favour of someone who will carry out the work in accordance with the licence conditions.
This really puts all exploration companies in a bad light irrespective of their commitment to the environment.
Chris, I'm pro-mining and all for foreign investment, but this development has been problematic since the beginning. 16 million will remind their top management that Chile is serious..
May 27th, 2013 - 03:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1: Chriss! How's Mom? Haven't seen her on Lincoln rd at night in a while. she might wore a different wig? Send her regards!
May 27th, 2013 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I thought that chilindio was the land of bussiness? Ohohoh,
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May 27th, 2013 - 06:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I thought that chilindio was the land of bussiness? “
Is that a statement or a question?
I will assume it is a question because you wouldn’t be making statements about things you don’t understand. I will try to answer in simple terms for you.
Chile is a business friendly country. Part of maintaining an environment that encourages business is the just application of the rule of law. At Pascua-Lama the rule of law has been applied.
Our strong rule of law is one of the many reasons why so many businesses invest here and we receive massive amounts of foreign investment.
There are of course many other factors besides the law. A nice clear example to help you understand this is the Google data center being built in Santiago. Why did Google choose to build its only data center in Latam in Chile? From their website:
“Chile offers an ideal combination of reliable infrastructure, a skilled workforce and a commitment to transparent and business friendly regulations. Chile also fosters an atmosphere of innovation, and in recent years has developed cutting edge policies and programs that encourage the growth of the Internet. “
:D LOL
May 27th, 2013 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As soon as the Price of copper drops, you will be walking on barefoot and using bows and arrows again.
Accept what your are Condorito, is less painfull that way.
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May 27th, 2013 - 07:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don’t worry yourself about the price of copper. Worry about the price of soy.
#6 Condorito
May 27th, 2013 - 09:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The poor fool doesn't seem to know about our rainy day fund when the copper price takes one of its historical plunges... But then again, the concept of having savings set aside and keeping our national debt low is incomprehensible for his type. (speaking of rainy days, we're having a good one right now.)
6 Condorito
May 27th, 2013 - 09:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This cunt is a child who likes to wind up the grown-ups.
I just wish one of La Campora would mistake him for something worth beating up. Just hospital mind you, not the morgue.
Chicureo,
May 27th, 2013 - 09:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unfortunately the rain hasn't reached us yet. It was supposed to be here by 4pm. If it doesn't rain by tonight I will be complaining at SERNAC tomorrow.
Chris,
He does seem very child like. It almost makes me miss the grown-up trolls....almost.
Raining here, let's hope the north gets some of this precious water.
May 27th, 2013 - 10:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“ I thought that chilindio was the land of bussiness? Ohohoh,”
May 28th, 2013 - 01:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Chilindo, slavelandia in chilean language, is only the land of business for corporations that are able to rip off the Chileans for free with help their elected slave mastes who sell the chilean people out with bogus free trade nonsensical theory. Condorito is an excellent example.
It almost makes me miss the grown-up trolls....almost.
Ahh, how nice you miss your boyfriend chris. You should teach him spanish, because it's hard to take a grown up troll serious who claims to live in Uruguay, but cannot speak one word of Spanish and claims to be an expert on American history based on doing research on the web (wikipedia).
11 Fido
May 28th, 2013 - 03:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Chilindo, slavelandia in chilean language”
Chile has the highest wages and the highest minimum wage in Latam, so with your logic all of latam is “slavelandia”.
“corporations that are able to rip off the Chileans for free”
In reality non-Chilean businesses generally pay much higher wages than Chilean businesses. How does that fit with your nonsensical “slavelandia” theory?
So if Chile does this, it's the “rule of law”. If Argentina does it, it's those evil argies at it again against business.
May 28th, 2013 - 04:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nice double standard.
Hmmmm Nostils, all for a fine?
May 28th, 2013 - 06:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0Uni isn't really rubbing off on you, is it!
The fine is not the main point , the real is that Chile have standards to follow and hope some neighbour do the same for the best to protect our flora and fauna
May 28th, 2013 - 07:52 am - Link - Report abuse 05 warteiner
May 28th, 2013 - 10:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0It never ceases to amaze me how jelous, angry and upset these fanatic Peronist/ Kirchnerist types get whenever they hear good news about Chile.
These emotions prevent them from seeing the obvious, that Argentina, with all its magnificent past, has to face today, “the shame of having been and the pain of no longer being” and accept that your once poor neighbor (the always ignored Chile), you have to today look at as an equal and, in substantive issues try to imitate.
@11 Fido Dildo
May 28th, 2013 - 11:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Touched another nerve have I?
I did not realise you were psychic and could tell how much Espanol I knew and used from your hideaway from Holland in the USA.
I do of course, like many on here, realise how stupid you are: you reinforce that belief each time you post your drivel.
Good job Chile, and very responsible.
May 28th, 2013 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Chris, you typed one (1) word in Spanish and managed to misspell it...
(12) Condorito...
May 28th, 2013 - 05:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You say...:
“Chile has the highest wages and the highest minimum wage in Latam.”
I say....:
Telling porkies again................... or is it just ignorance?
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salario_m%C3%ADnimo
Besides........ Very kind of you “lamenting” (in the Copahue thread) the fact that the ash from your volcanoes falls in our Patagonia........... affecting in a disproportionate way the ~250,000 Shilenos here making a living of tourism in the Cordillera and animal husbandryin the Meseta Central.....
(16) The Chilean perspective
Inferiority complex showing its ugly face again .......... huhhhhhhh?
Tell me......?
If you can't sound any better than an Argentinean when luck finally smiles at you........... What are you criticizing us Argentineans for?
(17) ChrisR
“Español” Mr. ChrisR......, “E S P A Ñ O L”......, with an “Ñ”..... EÑÑÑÑE...
Comprende?
19 Think
May 28th, 2013 - 07:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You say:
“Telling porkies again................... or is it just ignorance?”
I say: It must be my ignorance then.
But I tell you what Ché, this ignorant Shileno will send you 2875 Arg pesos (Arg min. wage) and you send me 200 lukita (Chilean min wage) in return. Deal?
Copahue: are those 250,000 Shilenos, the “ugly native Alpaca Andina” variety that your compatriot warteiner speaks of, or are they merely the people who have been husbanding animals in the cordillera for generations before the Germans, Welsh, (the odd Swede) etc showed up?
19 Think
May 28th, 2013 - 07:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Si!
Thank you, but I am aware of that; however my English keyboard requires me to use the 'insert symbols' to access these sorts of letters.
I do apologise but it is VERY laborious to do and I am confident that those who know Español (I copied and pasted yours :o) ) will understand what I am referring to.
Have you noticed I no longer edit your misspelt words?
18 Stevie
”Chris, you typed one (1) word in Spanish and managed to misspell it”
Yes, this is very true but I sometimes misspell complicated English words as well! But I am sure you understood what I was trying to say, didn’t you; at least Think did.
I do have another life other than MP so I sometimes do not run it all through a spell checker to save time and this occasion I have paid the price for it.
Oh dear, never mind, practice will help.
(20) Condorito
May 28th, 2013 - 07:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You say...:
”But I tell you what Ché, this ignorant Shileno will send you 2875 Arg pesos (Arg min. wage) and you send me 193 luquitas (Chilean min. wage) in return. Deal?”
I say.....:
No, No deal.....
People living on a minimum wage in Chile or Argentina do not transfer money to unknown persons over the Internet....... nor do they care at all about the Blue Dollar rate, the price of Scotch Whisky or Louis Vuitton bags…..
They use their minimum wage to pay for things like rent, utility bills, simple clothes and food…
And if I’m not very mistaken, all those things are cheaper in Argentina…..
As you can read on the link I provided at (19) the Argentinean minimum wage is ~30 higher than the Chilean minimum wage.
As you can read on the link I provided at (19) the Brazilian and Uruguayan minimum wages are nearly equal to the Chilean minimum wage.
If I had to live for the equivalent of 400U$S in any of the four above mentioned countries......, Chile would be my last option.
22 Think
May 28th, 2013 - 10:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are really wriggling there. The reason neither you nor any sane person would swap Ch$200.000 for Ar$2875 is simply that the latter is worth less.
As for which minimum wage buys more...well I just don’t know, with 25% inflation and price controls, what was the case last week may no longer be the case this week.
Going back to the gist of the argument at 12 (prior to your nitpicking), since 2000 average Chilean incomes have doubled (against a back drop of low inflation) and the number of people on the minimum wage has dropped from 20% to 10%. Why would you begrudge us this?
21 ChrisR
May 29th, 2013 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0“I do have another life other than MP” lol, you sure about that one? coulda fooled me! ;)
24 mastershakejb1
May 29th, 2013 - 01:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMy_w5HsfdI
@8: If I'm a child or not, won't change the fact that your mum's rent's her body on Lincoln Rd.
May 30th, 2013 - 12:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@12: I think your aborigenal genes don't let you think very well don't they?
http://www.biobiochile.cl/2013/03/19/sueldo-minimo-en-que-posicion-actual-esta-chile-con-respecto-a-latinoamerica.shtml
http://www.biobiochile.cl/2013/03/19/sueldo-minimo-en-que-posicion-actual-esta-chile-con-respecto-a-latinoamerica.shtml
@16? Jelous? You have to be joking! About what? We have the best city in AL the most beautifull woman's in AL, we are FAR superior to you lot in everything that we do. We are million miles more atractive, we are a thousand miles more educated (that's why your ugly countryman and woman come to our universities, and also to see if they can get an Argentine chorizo :D). The fact that your economy grew for a few years does not mean anything, you always will be like Peruvians and Paraguayans in here. Nothing more, sad but true.
Poor warteiner has never been outside of Argentina...on the plus side ignorance is bliss and ignorance is his forte.
May 30th, 2013 - 03:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 026 warteiner
Jun 01st, 2013 - 11:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are a typical Kirchenerist aren't you.
Your minimum wage is AR$2875 which is only CLP$ 152375 @ the going exchange rate ( http://www.cambiosantiago.cl/). NOT YOUR BULLSHIT OFFICIAL RATE THAT NO ONE CAN ACQUIRE FUNDS AT.
The minimum wage in Chile is going through the parliament right now and it will end up a touch over CLP$205000 or AR$ 3867...MILES above your minimum. Also in Chile only 770000 workers out of a total labor force of 8.2 million get that wage. Get this pal WE are going forward YOU are going backwards. All I can say is VIVA Cristina. May she win in October by a landslide.
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