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Drought, Disease and Isolation: The Urgent Situation …

February 3, 2021 The deep consequences of interconnected globalized systems paired with destructive localized human actions is on full display in the La Guajira peninsula of …

Biggest Coal Mine in Latin America Accused of Human …

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Javier Rojas is a leader of the Shipia Wayuu organization and member of the Wayuu Nation, one of Colombia's largest indigenous groups who mostly live in the northeastern department of La Guajira. Many Wayuu live in rural areas and have relied on subsistence farming, which is in crisis as only 4% have …

Glencore agrees to acquire JV partners' shares in the …

Baar, Switzerland 28 June 2021. Following notices from our joint venture partners, BHP and Anglo American, offering to sell their entire shares in the Cerrejón mine in Colombia, Glencore has reached agreement with each of them on substantially the same terms to acquire their respective 33.3% interests.

Cerrejon Open-pit Coal Mine, La Guajira, Colombia

The Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia is the biggest open-cast coal mine in Latin America and one of the largest surface coal mining operations in the world. It is a high-quality thermal coal mining operation jointly owned by …

Bloquean acceso a Cerrejón: esta vez comunidad …

Miembros de la comunidad afro de Roche completan un día de bloqueo en tres puntos de acceso a la mina de Cerrejón, argumentando incumplimientos por parte …

Nuevos bloqueos en Cerrejón estarían afectando las

Foto de archivo. Un camión transporta carbón en las minas de Cerrejón, cerca a Barrancas, en el departamento de la Guajira, Colombia, 24 de mayo, 2007.

Reports allege abuses by Glencore in Peru and Colombia, …

A third report, by Oxfam and FFI, shows how European banks and financial institutions helped finance Glencore's operations in Peru and Colombia. They accounted for nearly 50% of the total $88.1 ...

Colombia's resilient Wayuu resist global and local threats

THE WAYÚU ETHNIC GROUP. The local and ancestral inhabitants of the La Guajira peninsula are the Wayúu ethnic group. The Wayúu are the largest indigenous group in Colombia with a population of approximately 270,000 (20-30% of Colombia's total indigenous population). More than 100,000 Wayúu live across the border in Venezuela …

In Colombia, threatened women of the Wayuú community …

Meanwhile, La Guajira is the second poorest department in Colombia, and 61.8% of residents live on less than $87 a month, according to the National Administrative Department of Statistics. The ...

Late Paleocene fossils from the Cerrejón Formation, …

Results. From coal strip-mine exposures of the Cerrejón Formation, we recovered 2,191 foliar fossils from 16 localities [Fig. 1, Table 1, and SI Appendix (see …

Colombia mulls future of massive coal mine as water …

Bogotá (AFP) – Colombia's massive El Cerrejon coal mine has landed in the crosshairs of President Gustavo Petro, who has blamed the open-pit operation for …

Extraction: In Colombia, a Mine Takes Much More from the Land than …

This was how Aura Pérez, a resident of the village of Tabaco in Colombia's remote Guajira peninsula, described her home before it and the rest of the village was razed by Cerrejón Zona Norte, the largest open-pit coal mine in the world. Cerrejón is a huge, gaping gash 30 miles long by 5 miles wide in the hot, dry landscape. On August 9 ...

Late Paleocene fossils from the Cerrejón Formation, Colombia …

Fossils from the Cerrejón Fm. of northern Colombia, reported here, show a relative abundance and diversity of plant families at approximately 58 Ma similar to modern Neotropical rainforest; like living rainforest, it was dominated in biomass and diversity by palms, legumes, laurales, malvales, menisperms, aroids, and zingiberaleans, among …

Colombia: Mining company under fire from …

Apr 27th, 2022. Cerrejón Mine. ABColombia - on behalf of CAFOD, SCIAF, Trócaire, Christian Aid and Oxfam - organised and led a British and Irish delegation of parliamentarians to Colombia between 1-7 April. As a result of the human and Indigenous Rights violations that they encountered perpetrated by a multinational coal mining …

Colombia Cerrejon's coal output soars 89% in 2021 …

Published. Feb 28, 2022 11:04AM EST. Colombian coal miner Cerrejon's production jumped 89% last year to 23.4 million tonnes, the company said in a statement on …

Fossil of 43-foot super snake Titanoboa found in Colombia

The remains of several specimens of the snake are from a cache of fossils excavated from El Cerrejon coal mine in northern Colombia. Paleontologists are excited about the find because there are ...

Titanoboa: The Monster Snake that Ruled Prehistoric Colombia

A Titanic Boa. Titanoboa simply means 'titanic boa' and is an apt name for this prehistoric snake. According to estimates made by paleontologists, it could have grown to a length of between 42 feet and 49 feet (between 12.8 meters and 14.9 meters) and weighed up to a massive 2500 pounds (1134 kg). In addition, the thickest part of the snake ...

Colombian wind farm end-of-life raises circularity and …

La Guajira, COLOMBIA — On Oct. 9, Colombia's first wind farm, Jepírachi, officially reached its end of life after running for almost two decades in Uribia, in the northeastern region of La ...

In a Fight Over a Colombian Coal Mine, Covid-19 …

"That is the reason that pushed the Wayuu to appeal to the U.N., she added. "It is a matter of survival — of not being wiped out." The battle pits members of the Wayuu — the largest Indigenous group in …

Cerrejón Accused before the OECD of Human Rights …

OECD Complaint Against the Parent Companies of the Cerrejón Mine. OECD complaint related to the human rights abuses and environmental damage that the Cerrejón mine in La Guajira Colombia …

Glencore agrees $588m acquisition of full Cerrejon …

Glencore has agreed the acquisition of stakes in the Cerrejon coal mine held by joint venture partners BHP and Anglo American, giving it full ownership of the large thermal coal project in Colombia. The deal involves purchase of the 66.6% stake in the venture Glencore does not already own, with BHP and Anglo selling their respective …

Environmental Disaster and Health Crisis in Cerrejon

Cerrejon mine is located in the dry department of La Guajira which is home to more than 900,000 people. 45% of the population is indigenous, with most of the people belonging to Wayuu and the remaining coming from smaller groups such as Arhuacos, Koguis and Wiwas. 8% of the population is Afro-Colombian, thus making La Guajira the …

Life by Latin America's largest open-pit coal mine

La Guajira is a province in Colombia, located in the northeastern part of the country. The province is one of Colombia's poorest. Over the last four years La Guajira has been hit by serious ...

How Titanoboa, the 40-Foot-Long Snake, Was Found

Nine years later, Fabiany Herrera, an undergraduate geology student at Colombia's Industrial University of Santander, in Bucaramanga, visited Cerrejón on a field trip.

The First Neotropical Rainforest Was Home of the Titanoboa

October 13, 2009. News Release. Smithsonian researchers working in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine have unearthed the first megafossil evidence of a neotropical rainforest. Titanoboa, the world's biggest snake, lived in this forest 58 million years ago at temperatures 3-5 C warmer than in rainforests today, indicating that rainforests ...

Traveling on Coal's Death Route: From Puerto Rico's Jobos …

Although our understanding is that the coal burned at the AES plant located in Guayama, Puerto Rico, comes from Colombia, we also know that it is shipped from the port of Santa Marta, which handles coal mined in El Cesar by Drummond, LTD, to the AES port in Las Mareas harbor. In contrast, Cerrejón ships its coal from Puerto Bolivar.

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Cerrejon in Motion; Strategic projects; Sustainability . Sustainability reports; ... A trip through more than 400 guajira communities. Find out. 2023-07. ... that the earth offers us and transport it to the world where it is transformed into energy. Video file. 2021-09. Mining for Colombia and La Guajira. Get to know our 2022 Sustainability ...

Giant boid snake from the Palaeocene neotropics reveals hotter

Discovery of Titanoboa extends the known range of body lengths in snakes by more than two orders of magnitude, between TBLs of 10 cm ( Leptotyphlops carlae) and 12.8 m. Our estimates of body size ...

In Colombia's La Guajira, the native Wayuu are …

A coal pit at Cerrejon, one of the world's largest open-pit coal mines. ... Colombia exports more coal to Europe than to any other continent: 20% of its total exports in 2017 were represented by ...

In less than a generation, legal mining in Colombia …

In less than a generation, legal mining in Colombia deforested over 120,000 hectares. by Nicolás Bustamante Hernández on 8 June 2021. A study by researchers in Colombia found that forest ...

UN Treaty Could Force Mining Companies to Behave Responsibly

Glencore is one of the world's biggest transnational companies dedicated to the production and marketing of raw materials. It has mining operations in more than 50 countries and its revenues in 2019 exceeded $215bn, five times more than Bolivia's GDP, 95% of Peru's GDP and two-thirds of Colombia's GDP in that year.

Two tiers and double standards: foreign investors and the …

Coal extraction in Colombia is conceived to supply the needs of the international commodity market, rather than oriented towards development of local Colombian economy (Arias, 2015). From 1987 to 2017 Cerrejón has exported more than 680 million tonnes of coal, and in 2017 it extracted 31.7 million tonnes of coal, 37% of the …

Colombia's Cerrejón mine: the social impact on surrounding …

Cerrejón mine: located in La Guajira, north-east Colombia, this open-pit coal mine generates 32 million tonnes of coal per year. is exported.

From a Vibrant Past to a Desolate Future: La Guajira and …

Alta Guajira, Colombia. The Cerrejon Formation. In the distant past of the La Guajira peninsula, what is now semi-arid desert plain used to be wet rainforest, with extensive river systems. Specifically, in the Paleocene period (66 to 56 million years ago), the geological "Cerrejon Formation" took shape in the Cesar-Rancheria sub-basin that ...

Cerrejon Open-pit Coal Mine, La Guajira, Colombia

The Cerrejon coal mine is a high quality thermal coal mining operation located in La Guajira, Colombia. Image courtesy of Tanenhaus. The coal output of the Cerrejon mine is transported over 150km to the port of Puerto Bolivar. Image courtesy of Cerrejon. The Cerrejon coal mine produced 25.8Mt of coal in 2019. Image courtesy of Cerrejon.

Colombia mulls future of massive coal mine as water dries up

El Cerrejon is the largest open-pit coal mine in Latin America, stretching over 69,000 hectares (170,000 acres) across a harsh landscape that is also home to the semi-nomadic Wayuu tribe, who live ...

Late Paleocene fossils from the Cerrejón Formation, Colombia…

Results. From coal strip-mine exposures of the Cerrejón Formation, we recovered 2,191 foliar fossils from 16 localities [Fig. 1, Table 1, and SI Appendix (see Fig. S1 and Table S1)] and segregated them into 65 morphotypes using leaf architectural characters [Fig. 2, Table 1, SI Appendix (see Figs. S2–S98 and Tables S1, S2, S10, and …

Luis Diaz's home, the mine causing it 'irreparable …

A 2017 ruling from Colombia's constitutional court ordered Cerrejon to halt rerouting of the stream, which is sacred to the Wayuu, finding that the Bruno is "a living being, important in its ...