{"id":319979,"date":"2017-08-02T19:37:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T18:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canada-supporting-barrick-golds-exploitation-of-mineral-resources-in-tanzania\/"},"modified":"2017-08-02T19:37:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T18:37:22","slug":"canada-supporting-barrick-golds-exploitation-of-mineral-resources-in-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canada-supporting-barrick-golds-exploitation-of-mineral-resources-in-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada: Supporting Barrick Gold\u2019s Exploitation of Mineral Resources in Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Will the Canadian government continue to support Barrick Gold\u2019s exploitation of mineral resources in Tanzania no matter what abuses the company commits?<\/p>\n

Would the Trudeau government stop backing the Toronto-based firm if it bilked the impoverished nation out of $10 billion? Or, what if one thousand people were raped and seriously injured by Barrick security? Would Ottawa withdraw its support if one hundred Tanzanians were killed at its mines?<\/p>\n

Barrick\u2019s African subsidiary, Acacia Mining, is embroiled in a major political conflict in the east African nation. With growing evidence of its failure to pay royalties and tax, Acacia has been condemned<\/a> by the president, had its exports restricted<\/a> and slapped<\/a> with a massive tax bill.<\/p>\n

In May a government panel concluded that Acacia significantly under-reported<\/a> the percentage of gold and copper in mineral sand concentrates it exported. The next month a government commission concluded that foreign mining firms\u2019 failure to declare revenues had cost Tanzania $100 billion. According to the research, from 1998 to March 2017 the Tanzanian government lost between 68.6 trillion and 108.5 trillion shillings<\/a> in revenue from mineral concentrates.<\/p>\n

The controversy over Barrick\u2019s exports led President John Magufuli to fire the minister of mining<\/a> and the board of the Minerals Audit Agency. Tanzania\u2019s parliament has also voted to review mining contracts<\/a> and to block companies<\/a> from pursuing the country in international trade…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Will the Canadian government continue to support Barrick Gold\u2019s exploitation of mineral resources in Tanzania no matter what abuses the company commits? Would the Trudeau government stop backing the Toronto-based firm if it bilked the impoverished nation out of $10 billion? Or, what if one thousand people were raped and seriously injured by Barrick security? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-319979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}