The GNA includes other provisions enabling the community to monitor the company’s operations and participate in company environmental management.
This is huge to be able to give stakeholders a higher level role in the actual process.
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- Apr 2025
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An interviewee from the company shared that, even though the Councils did not represent all of the local community, they were in fact “speaking on behalf of an organized group of people” in the community who cared passionately about clean air, clean water and retaining the rural character of the area.
Good enough? I don't think so.
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Generally, for project agreements to be effective, developers should negotiate with stakeholders who are representative of the community.
This reminds me of what we talked about in class where they have one high ranking community member on the Mine poster and think that's all of the stakeholders.
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“We asked the company if they would be interested in pursuing a good neighbor agreement, and we sent a letter to that effect, and much to our surprise within a week they wrote back and said yes, they would be willing to sit down with us.”
I love this. As much bad as we have heard about mining in general as well as mining companies the more i read about them it seems like they're trying to do the right thing.
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SMC wanted to expand the Stillwater mine by constructing tailing impoundment and waste disposal facilities downstream from the mine.
We have heard at length the dangers of creating these ponds and waste facilities.
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