Alcan't at Coega
and other Environmental Concerns in the
Eastern Cape

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There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. - Robert Orben

INTERNATIONAL PROTESTS

Protesters  blockading the entrance to the Runcorn Alcoa factory near Manchester. Photo Jenny (www.savingiceland.org) Protests at the Runcorn Alcoa factory near Manchester. Photo Jenny (www.savingiceland.org) No Alcan on our land - Orissa protesters Otaheite Village Doesn't Want Manning's Aluminium Smelter. Photo  Taran Rampersad
Protest at site of proposed Rio Blanco dams, part of Alumysa aluminum complex, Chilean Patagonia Photo: Peter Hartmann Iceland pop star Bjork's mom, Ms Hauksdottir, protesting in Iceland New Year's day 2007 - London protest action by Saving Iceland University of Sussex students dressed in reindeer-like costumes protesting "Barclays funds Iceland's destruction"

Websites

Saving Iceland - Iceland
ALCANT in India - India
No Smelters in T & T - Trinidad & Tobago
Jamaica Bauxite Environmental Organisation - Jamaica
Don't Sell us out Coalition - Canada

Media

2007 All Summer of International Dissent against heavy Industry - Gathering starts 6 July 2007
2007 May Iceland chased around Reykjavik by Heavy Industry and Death - Photos
2007 May Victory over ALCOA in Brazil!
2007 Mar Earth First! Shut Down Aluminum Giant ALCOA in The Netherlands
2007 Mar Dutch folk singer fighting for Icelandic nature
2007 Feb Majority of Icelanders are against the expansion of the ALCAN smelter and favour more environmental protection
2007 Jan Saving Iceland New Year Stunt in London
2007 Jan ELF Strikes Against ALCAN in Iceland
2007 Jan Alcan't Regulator quashes controversial power sale agreement.
2006 Oct Funeral march for Iceland & Trinidad - LONDON 27 OCTOBER
2006 Sept Smelter Struggle: Trinidad Fishing Community Fights Aluminum Project
2006   Where are the Jobs?
2006 Mar Week of Iceland Actions in the Low Countries
2005 Nov Saving Iceland gathering held in Forest-fields
2005 Oct Activists blockaded the Alcan aluminium smelter in Fort William on Tuesday 25th October
2005 July First lock on in Icelandic history Aluminium smelters emit enormous quantities of greenhouse gases
2005 Feb Groups Protest Violence Against Anti-Mining Activists
2004 Dec Severe police violence against the peoples of Kashipur who oppose a major mining project proposed by Alcan Inc. MUST STOP IMMEDIATLY
2003 Mar The concerns of a Chilean environmentalist about a planned new aluminum smelter in Patagonia
2003 Jan Residents urge Bastrop to can Alcoa road plan
2002 Oct Bjork's mother ends hunger strike

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. - Native American Proverb
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