Canadian Miners Sour on Burma


	Canadian Miners Sour on Burma

jetcloud

10-14-2007 1:41 AM

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"Ties with junta earned millions for BC-based Ivanhoe."

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8fe34db9-3ce2-42aa-8102-cbae6bcd54e1/AC73988C-27DB-4090-9669-E4DBC1F706BB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/10/12/BCBurmaMiners/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=121007" href="http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/10/12/BCBurmaMiners/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=121007" style="font-size: 11px;">thetyee.ca</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/10/12/BCBurmaMiners/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=121007"><P>"There are pros and cons of doing business in a place like Burma," says Catherine Coumans, Research Coordinator for <A target="_blank" href="http://www.miningwatch.ca/" linkindex="41">Mining Watch Canada</A>. "Because the government gets a percentage of all mining projects, it's in their interests to ensure a project has smooth sailing ... there won't be problems over environmental impacts, labour impacts, community impacts, and that makes for easy mining. But the downside is that military dictatorships are often unstable internally, doing things like moving its capitol into the jungle."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/10/12/BCBurmaMiners/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=121007"><P>Reliant on good relations with his military joint venture partners, <A target="_blank" href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/QXNL.html" linkindex="42">billionaire</A> Friedland has been a defender of the regime, preaching a philosophy of engagement with the military as an agent of political reform.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/10/12/BCBurmaMiners/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=121007"><P>"I am firmly convinced that Canadian companies going to a country like Myanmar to engage in business will help the average person there," he told the Globe and Mail in 1997. "I will tell you there is no country in Asia that is a perfect democracy."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/10/12/BCBurmaMiners/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=121007"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/thetyee.ca/img/1B92C7F4-3744-42C8-A271-D0B71E1BF169" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/10/12/BCBurmaMiners/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=121007">Robert Friedland</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AC73988C-27DB-4090-9669-E4DBC1F706BB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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