Mines and Community Engagement in Peru: Communities Telling Their Stories to Improve Future Practice

Armstrong, Rita; Baillie, Caroline; Fourie, Andy; Rondon, Glevys

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-02117-6_2

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“…The primary objective of Minas Conga was to generate economic revenue for the Peruvian government, and profits for Buenaventura and Newmont. These parties made significant, co-beneficial steps to ensure the "success" of the project, following common practice in Peru (Armstrong et al, 2014). The Humala Administration weakened federal environmental regulations, invested heavily in the mining industry, and supplied armed police during the ensuing social unrest.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Transparency throughout each stage of the development project is fundamental to enhance participation and make benefits more equitable (Armstrong et al, 2014). It is important that all major stakeholder groups play a meaningful role in the conceptual stage and the articulation and prioritization of legitimate needs to justify the project in the first place.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Case for Integrative Sustainable Development Practice Based on the Minas Conga Gold-Mining Experience in Peru

Downs¹,

Roa²,

Dixon³

et al. 2020

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Mining projects are among the most impactful development projects, and the most controversial. The Conga Mining Project, proposed by the U.S. based Newmont Mining Corporation, in partnership with Minas Buenaventura, was slated for the Cajamarca region of Peru. Since the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) was completed in 2010, controversy has escalated: public protests have precipitated a political crisis for President Humala, with several ministers resigning. The proposed project would have been made located approximately 73 km northeast of the city of Cajamarca, in the northern Peruvian Andes, in the district of Sorochuco, within an area defined by four major lakes, headwaters of rivers, and wetlands. Despite findings of "no significant impact" by the 2010 EIA, the project is currently postponed indefinitely due to the public backlash, international attention, and questions of integrity surrounding environmental and social concerns. We use the Conga Mining case to interrogate business-as-usual (BAU) design, assessment, planning, implementation and monitoring practices for extractive development in Peru, and suggest alternatives. Our analysis is based on an integrative framework that is empirically based (previously developed by the authors), one with a greater likelihood of improving sustainable development and the equity of positive and negative impacts among stakeholders. Suggestions are tailored to the setting: we pay special attention to the climate-change and socio-political contexts of Peru. We seek to exploit a shifting political landscape that is resisting BAU and countering the systematic disenfranchisement of vulnerable populations by extractive resource industries. These appear to be enabling conditions to promote the adoption of a capacity building, socio-technical enterprise approach to framing and designing sustainable development projects in Peru, with implications beyond.

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Section: Bau Conceptual Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Suggested Conceptual Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%