The recently published report, “Anglo American: Rhetoric or Reality” the author, Phil Mattera, details the dirty deeds of Anglo American in Ghana and pollution of local water sources. According to Mattera,
Anglo company reports also apparently chronicle many other spills between 2004-2006 during which mine waste water and other tailings were spilled, thus affecting homes and communities along Ghana’s Nyam River. Next on Anglo’s hit parade…the Pebble Mine. Alaskans beware.
A mine in Ghana operated by AngloGold Ashanti – an Anglo American subsidiary until 2006 and an associated company for a year after that – has repeatedly spilled waste water and tailings into neighboring communities in recent years. Scientists have found that streams in the vicinity of the mine are significantly polluted be metals.
“You wake up one day and you realize your farm is destroyed,” said Assemblyman Benjamin Anna, a local politician. “They say they will compensate but it takes one or two years. So people are complled to go to illegal mining. The way our
ancestors did.”
Anglo company reports also apparently chronicle many other spills between 2004-2006 during which mine waste water and other tailings were spilled, thus affecting homes and communities along Ghana’s Nyam River. Next on Anglo’s hit parade…the Pebble Mine. Alaskans beware.
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