The Guardian reports that for too long mining companies have used the mantra of growth to excuse environmental destruction.

The market news is quoted as saying,

Have you noticed that mining is increasingly getting up people’s noses? Globally, more communities are fighting it. Gaggles of poor villagers are taking on well-connected, cashed-up companies representing the brutish but powerful foundation of the globalised free market system. You have to admire their style.

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