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[https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/11/30/panama-celebrates-court-order-to-cancel-mine-even-as-business-is-hit by Michael Fox 30/11/23 ALJAZEERA] | [https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/11/30/panama-celebrates-court-order-to-cancel-mine-even-as-business-is-hit by Michael Fox 30/11/23 ALJAZEERA] | ||
The country’s Supreme Court of Justice ruled that Panama’s new mining contract with the Canadian company First Quantum was unconstitutional. | The country’s Supreme Court of Justice ruled that Panama’s new mining contract with the Canadian company First Quantum was unconstitutional. | ||
=====Mining Critical to Renewable Energy Tied to Hundreds of Alleged Human Rights Abuses===== | |||
[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07062023/mining-clean-energy-human-rights/ by Katie Surma 7/6/23 Inside Climate News] | |||
The Business and Human Rights Resource Center said the alleged abuses involve global mining for copper, lithium, cobalt, manganese, nickel and zinc, all used in critical renewable technologies like solar panels, vehicle batteries and windmills. | |||
