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Edmonton, AB T6J 1A4
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November 16, 1992
Daishowa has made Survival International's "Top Ten" list of "Companies
that do not listen or care".
The International newsletter of Survival International says that these
"Top Ten" companies have been picked by Survival International on the
500th anniversary of Columbus landing in North America "to convey the
message that the European invasion, set in motion by Columbus' so-called
discovery of the Americas, is by no means over". It says that "These
(ten) western and Japanese companies, busy plundering the last corners of
the Earth, are the ones continuing that invasion".
The newsletter says that Daishowa was included in the "Top Ten" list for
"planning to fell trees across vast areas of land claimed by the Lubicon
Cree Indians of northern Alberta".
Other companies on the "Top Ten" list include:
- Rio Tinto Zinc, a British multinational mining company, whose
plans to mine copper and uranium in Wisconsin, Panama and
Ontario have threatened the lives of 100,000 Native Indians;
- Hanson, a British multinational holding company, whose
subsidiary, Peabody, runs a coal mine in Arizona which has
forced Navajo people to leave their homes and polluted their
river;
- Newmont Gold, a British company controlled by Sir James
Goldsmith, is mining for gold on land that belongs to the
Western Shoshone people in Nevada, ransacking their resources
and risking cyanide pollution;
- Maxus, an American oil company, is building a pipeline and road
into the heart of territory in Ecuador occupied by the Waorani,
a vulnerable and semi-nomadic tribe of 1,600;
- The UK Ministry of Defence is violating the rights of the Innu
people in Labrador and Quebec by practicing low flying
exercises over their land, making it impossible for them to
earn their livelihoods in their traditional way from hunting;
- Energy Fuels Nuclear, an American company, is mining uranium at
Red Butte near the entrance to the Grand Canyon in Arizona,
regarded by the Havasupai people as a sacred site;
- Shell, the British and Danish oil company, is involved in
trying to exploit natural gas fields on the Camisea River in
Peru which would damage the lands of the Machiguenga people;
- Exxon, the American oil company, has a 50% share in a 90,000-
acre opencast coal mine at El Cerrejon which is destroying the
land of the Wayuu Indians in the far north of Columbia;
- Uranerz, a German mining company, has a major holding in the
world's largest working uranium mine at Key Lake in
Saskatchewan, which is threatening the local Dene and Cree
peoples.