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When my oldest son, a Marine, left for war and crossed the border from Kuwait into Iraq in March 2003 I started writing my conscience. After two tours that young combat veteran, my first born son, is now permanently disabled suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and his mother is now an ardent peace activist. Today I am active with Veterans for Peace, Military Families Speak Out and on the board of Rural Organizing Project Also, I am CEO of Rogue River Wind, Ltd and the inventor of a low profile wind turbine incorporating a high bandwidth relativistic generator

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US mining firm for failing to meet environmental clean up requirements">Peru ousts US mining firm for failing to meet environmental clean up requirements

February 1st, 2010 • Related • Filed Under

Doe Run was evicted from Peru

Peru’s min­ing, oil and energy asso­ci­a­tion (SNMPE) said Sat­ur­day it has expelled US min­ing com­pany Doe Run from its ros­ter for not clean­ing up its pol­lu­tion prob­lems, which envi­ron­men­tal­ists say are among the worst in the world.

“It has not shown… any will­ing­ness to com­ply with its envi­ron­men­tal com­mit­ments and its oblig­a­tions to the coun­try, its work­ers, the La Oroya pop­u­la­tion and its cred­i­tors,” SNMPE said in a statement.

So we have high hopes that ORC will not behave like Doe Run? Are both com­pa­nies pos­si­bly tied through the myr­iad off­shore cor­po­ra­tions con­trol­ling the purse strings of both com­pa­nies? Would be inter­est­ing to find out.

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