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Struggles for Safe Mining and Sustainable Development
R.Sreedhar
Trustee, Environics Trust
Convenor, mines minerals & PEOPLE, Delhi
ANROAV 2007, AMRC, Hongkong
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Mining in India
• The problem of people in mining is manifold. The destruction of the preexisting habitat for the mining industry undermines the possibility to look for alternatives
• The Mining Industry is wide spread and severe adverse impacts are visible from small scale rat hole mining and stone quarrying to large open cast and deep underground mines.
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Mining in India
• The social and political implication of mining assumes far reaching implication when this principal mineral wealth lies in the most forested regions and those homelands traditionally inhabited by dalit and adivasi.
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THE SITUATION
• THE GOVERNMENTS ARE UNWILLING TO LOOK AT OTHER OPTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES
• ARE PROGRESSIVELY BINDING THEMSELVES TO SYSTEMS THAT HAVE FAILED
• FOR ANY SOVERIEGN GOVERNMENT THE `SECTORS’ OF THE ECONOMY HAVE NO MEANING, ITS FOCUS MUST BE WELFARE OF PEOPLE
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THE OVERALL SITUATION
• COMMUNITIES ARE POOR AND WEAK
• GOVERNMENTS ARE OPRESSIVE, YET THEY ARE LEGITIMATE
• THE MARKET OR INDUSTRY IS OVERPOWERING
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THE SITUATION
• LOCAL COMMUNITIES ARE CONSTRAINED AND BOUND AT MULTIPLE LEVELS THROUGH VARIOUS INSTRUMENTS– ECONOMIC– SOCIAL– CULTURAL
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CONFRONTING THE REALITY
• PEOPLE ALL OVER HAVE BEEN MISLED BY FALSE INFORMATION FROM THE INDUSTRY AND PROMOTING GOVERNMENTS
• INDUSTRY WANTS TO TALK ON GENERAL ISSUES AND DESISTS FROM ANY COMMITMENTS ON MINING SPECIFIC ISSUES
• GOVERNMENTS AND CIVIL SOCIETY SHOULD ATLEAST REACH RIGHT INFORMATION TO THE COMMUNITIES
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The beneficiaries
• Investors and Investment Bankers
• Owners and Managers
• Politicians and Contractors
• Consultants
• Reclaimers!
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Who’s paying the costs?
• Local Communities
• Workers
• Local Environment
• EcosystemSmall Investors
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Minerals for What?
– FROM DIAMOND-STUDS TO CRUISE MISSILES
– METALS AND FUELS FROM NATURE FOR NOW AND IN FUTURE
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KEY SEGMENTS
• GOVERNMENTS
• MARKETS
• COMMUNITIES
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STATE
– Multi Level• Element of Global Processes
• National Policy & Federal Government
• State Governments
• Local Self-Governing Institutions
– Deepening Sectoralism– Political Uncertainty
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SECTORAL GOVERNANCE BINDS
• SECTORALISATION– ECONOMIC– ADMINISTRATIVE– DISCIPLINARY
• MINERAL NEEDS– DOMESTIC– INDUSTRIAL– MILITARY
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GOVERNMENT’S FOCUS
• MINERAL AVAILABILITY– BALANCE OF LIFE– `EQUITY OIL’, now COAL also
• ATTEMPT AT FORECASTING?
• EXTENDING OUR HEGEMONY
• MINERAL ECONOMICS– VALUE– INCOMES
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MINING INDUSTRY
• COMPLEX STRUCTURE OF TRANSACTIONS– MINERAL IMPORTS AND EXPORTS– DOWNSTREAM ACTIVITIES– EMPLOYMENT
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Market is Oligopolistic
• Ten Large Mining MNCs control nearly 90%
• Progressively Greater Consolidation
• Push Policies to suit commercial interests
• Alienated with Larger Community
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ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES
– COMPLEX OWNERSHIP STRUCTURES• MAJORS
• SUBSIDAIRIES
• JVS
• STRATEGIC STAKES
– OPAQUE FINANCIAL TRANSACTION• Primary Markets
• Secondary Markets
• Derivatives
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COMMUNITIES
– Economic Differences– Social Grouping– Political Systems– Traditional Communities– Community and State Norms
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ECOSYSTEMS
– MAJOR EFFECTS• DEGRADATION• DEPLETION• EXTINCTION
– KEY CONCERNS• DISLODGING STABLE NATURAL SYSTEMS
HARMFUL• RESOURCES ABOVE: ECOSYSTEMS AND
COMMUNITIES• SELECTIVE EXTRACTION AND GENERAL
DEPLETION
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VALUES AND VALUATION
• VALUING METHODS
• VALUATION
• VALUES
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CURRENT HURDLES
• BUREAUCRATIC GIANTISM
• POLITICAL DESPOTISM
• FINANCIAL OPACITY
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CURRENT INFLUENCES
• LARGE CORPORATES
• LEGAL AND JUDICIAL SYSTEMS
• PATRIARCHY
• INTERNATIONAL INTERFERENCE
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MINING LAWS
• MINES AND MINERALS (DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION) ACT, 1957
• CESS & OTHER TAXES ON MINERALS(VALIDATION) ACT, 1992
• GOA,DAMAN & DIU MINING CONCESSIONS ACT, 1987
• Offshore Areas Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act, 2002
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RULES• THE MINERAL CONCESSION RULES,
1960 AND ITS AMENDMENTS• MINERAL CONSERVATION &
DEVELOPMENT RULES, 1988• GRANITE CONSERVATION &
DEVELOPMENT RULES, 1999• MINING LEASES (MODIFICATION OF
TERMS) RULES, 1956
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RULES
• Marble Development and Conservation Rules, 2002
• Mineral Concession (Amendment) Rules, 2003 dated 10-04-2003
• Mineral Conservation & Development (Amendment) Rules, 2003 dated 10-04-2003
• Mineral Conservation & Development (2nd Amendment) Rules, 2003 dated 17-04-2003
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Corollary but Critical Laws
• AIR (Prevention of Pollution) ACT• WATER ACT (Prevention of
Pollution) ACT• FOREST (CONSERVATION ) ACT &
RULES,1980• ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT,
1986• LABOUR AND SAFETY IN MINES
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THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT NOTIFICATION, 1994
Key element of Public Hearing was Introduced
Currently under threat with revised notifications diluting the procedures
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Simplifying for the Corporates
• A major initiative has been in simplifying procedures to introduce transparency and avoid delay in granting different types of leases.
• During 2001-02 to 2005-06 a total of 1172 PLs were granted over an area of 133743 hectares in twelve states viz. Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka,Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttaranchal, Bihar,Chhattisgarh, Gujarat & Jharkhand.
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IMPORTS – Just Oil & Diamonds
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Andhra Pradesh
• Bauxite • Coal • Uranium• Stone Quarry - Kuppam
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Maharashtra
• Stone Quarry• Bauxite
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Rajasthan
• Stone Quarry• Marble• Oil Refinery • Mining Cooperative• Floods
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Delhi
• Stone Crushers• Mining Policy
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Goa
• Iron Ore Mines
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Karnataka
• Iron Ore• Gold• Granite Quarry
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Orissa
• Bauxite• Iron Ore
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Uttarakhand
• Askot • Kataldi• Dunagiri• Aseena
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West Bengal
• Sahasratoli
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Jharkhand
• Jadugoda• Roro• East Parej
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Meghalaya
• Domiasat• Coal• Limestone
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Summary of Actions
• Local Mobilisation
• Parallel Research and Analysis
• Campaigns at State – Central Level
• Legal Interventions – Appellates & Courts
• International Campaign – Shareholder Action; UN and other Agency Petitions– And yet it is like fire-fighting, hence
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Thematic Action Areas
• Women and Mining
• Community Environmental Assessment
• Legal Interventions
• Media and Communications
• Stone Quarry and Occupational Health
• Mine Closures and Community Futures
• Green Field Areas