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| Activists want Barrick taxed on gains by PIUS RUGONZIBWA , Daily News Tanzania August 22nd, 2012 STAKEHOLDERS have called for the government to hurriedly charge and collect Capital Gains Tax from the African Barrick Gold (ABG) following reports that its mother company, Barrick Gold, intends to sell off its stakes to a Chinese investor. |
| For Barrick, Tanzanian mines lose their lustre by Geoffrey York, Globe and Mail August 16th, 2012 Barrick Gold Corp.�s mining operations in Africa have been a publicity nightmare for the company for years, but until now the company had always seemed confident that the mines were profitable enough to withstand the damage to its reputation. |
| Tanzania: New Local Pension Law Unfair by Ngwegwe Mussa, East Africa Business Week August 13th, 2012 The newly introduced pension law in Tanzania that requires any employee to reach a maturely age of 55 years in order to retrieve his benefits has continued to get criticisms from majority of Tanzanians especially those in the private sectors. Recently different employees working with the mines of African Barrick Gold in Buryankulu (western Tanzania) aired their concerns on the newly signed law saying it was unfair and, they are willing to stage protests against it. |
| Ministry to meet Barrick over Mara mine conflicts by Jacob Mugini, Daily News July 15th, 2012 ENERGY and Minerals Ministry will soon meet with African Barrick Gold (ABG) management to find lasting solutions on recurrent conflicts between the Canadian miner and the local communities surrounding North Mara Gold Mine. |
| Tanzanian Representative Illegally denied Entry into Barrick Gold AGM by ProtestBarrick.net May 2nd, 2012 Amani Mhinda traveled from Tanzania to speak out against Barrick Gold's abuses at their mines sites there. However, despite holding a legal proxy to enter the meeting, his entry to that meeting was denied. "As part of Civil Society Movement in Tanzania and Citizens of Tanzania we would like an end to atrocities and human rights abuses which has come to be associated with Canadian mining investment. I am here to represent Ms. Otaigo, who died in April because she drank poisonous water next to Barrick's North Mara Mine," said Amani. "Clearly, Barrick denied my entrance because they wanted to cover up the abuses that their company is responsible for." Other advocates were able to attend Barrick's meeting, reading statements from the communities in Papua New Guinea and an Indigenous community in Northern Chile. |
| Barrick launches new corporate social responsibility advisory board by Craig Wong, The Canadian Press March 2nd, 2012 Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX) is setting up a new corporate social responsibility advisory board that includes former Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler. "I guess the question in my mind is what an advisory committee is going to tell them that isn't already quite well known and documented...and where the solutions have also been proposed and they're actually just awaiting implementation," said Jamie Kneen of Mining Watch Canada. |
| Meet whistleblower who paid through the nose Guardian February 19th, 2012 A personal story about how Barrick sabotaged a fact-finding mission to visit their mine sites with the religious community from Canada. |
| Villagers blame goldmine for unfair compensation The Guardian (Tanzania) January 9th, 2012 Kakola Namba Tisa villagers in Kahama District, Shinyanga Region, have lodged complaints against the Bulyahulu Goldmine owned by Barrick Tanzania for failing to compensate them fairly after the company took their land. |
| Mining companies in Tanzania yet to pay raised royalty fees http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/1298496/-/nglnxfz/-/ January 2nd, 2012 Tanzanians are yet to start benefiting from the new mining law which raised royalty paid on precious minerals including gold from three to four per cent because mining companies haven�t migrated to the new tax regime. |
| African Barrick Gold Mine faces multimillion dollar suit the Guardian (Tanzania) December 25th, 2011 Afrcan Barrick Gold (ABG) faces a multimillion court battle following its draconian decisions taken two years ago to freeze payments to Mwanza based firm, Simba Pipe Line, under the allegations of frauds. |
| DJ Tanzania Inflation Rate Soars Over Food Shortage The Financial December 18th, 2011 Tanzania, Africa's third largest gold producer is also grappling with acute power shortages, blamed in lower water levels at its main hydro power stations. Power shortages have compelled the state power utility, Tanzania Electricity Supply Co. to embark on nation-wide rationing as it seeks to balance demand and supply. The country was hit by several months of drought late last year and earlier this year, affecting water levels at its hydro power stations and hitting its rain-fed agriculture. |
| Barrick Gold blamed for neglecting sick workers by Joseph Mchekadona, the Guardian (Tanzania) December 15th, 2011 African Barrick Gold (ABG) sick workers and some ex-workers residing in Dar es Salaam have complained about ill-treatment by their management and also of substandard services at the hotel they are residing. |
| End of the Barrick Gold Lawsuit: �cosoci�t� Settles Out of Court http://www.freespeechatrisk.ca October 20th, 2011 At the conclusion of a judicial struggle that has lasted three and a half years, �ditions �cosoci�t� has arrived at an out-of-court agreement with the multinational Barrick Gold. In order to put an end to the proceedings that Barrick Gold instituted against it in April 2008 for the sum of 6 million dollars, and for this reason only, �ditions �cosoci�t� is ceasing the publication of the book Noir Canada and made a payment to Barrick through their insurer. |
| Once again a SLAPP against Noir Canada! by Dominique Caouette, Catherine Dorion, Louis Dumont, Francis Dupuis-D�ri, Jean-Marc Larouche, Lucie Lemonde, Normand Mousseau, Christian Nadeau, Pierre Noreau, Marcelo Otero, �ric Pineault, Michel Seymour, Sid Ahmed Soussi, Pierre Trudel et Daniel Turp, Free Speech at Risk After three years of lobbying by the mining company Barrick Gold against the authors of Noir Canada and the publisher �cosoci�t�, and pending a trial that was the culmination of a SLAPP, Barrick Gold has signed an out of court settlement with the authors and the publisher. |
| Barrick�s Tanzanian project tests ethical mining policies by Geoffrey York, Globe and Mail The Globe and Mail asks: How did a leading Canadian corporate citizen and the world�s top gold producer get itself into this contradiction? And why does Barrick continue mining in a place where bloodshed and corruption seem inescapable? |
| Barrick Gold�s Tanzanian headache by Geoffrey York, Globe and Mail, Report on Business Magazine September 30th, 2011 Geoffrey York reports in the Globe and Mail's Business magazine, over 11 pages with colour photos on Barrick's mine in North Mara 'As long as Tanzanians are forced to choose between dying for a living and the potential wealth that they can gain by invading Barrick�s gold mine, the bloodshed at North Mara is likely to continue. Weapons and walls are a poor solution.' |
| Pay Dirt? by Michelle Slater, Castlemaine Independent July 27th, 2011 Can gold ever be ethical? |
| North Mara investors risk being kicked out by FLORIAN KAIJAGE, the Guardian (Tanzania) June 19th, 2011 Tarime District residents have threatened to halt mining gold operations at North Mara, Nyamongo area, if the mine proprietors, African Barrick Gold, continue dishonouring an agreement with communities in the mine�s neighbourhoods. |
| In an African mine, the lust for gold sparks a deadly clash by GEOFFREY YORK, The Globe and Mail June 8th, 2011 The morning of May 16 began like many others. Carrying hammers and rucksacks, hundreds of Tanzanian villagers trudged to the mountain of waste rock at dawn expecting to make another illicit deal with the heavily armed police who protect it. Two hours later, at least five villagers were dead and many others wounded � gunned down by police at the gold mine owned by a subsidiary of Barrick Gold Corporation of Toronto. |
| Tanzanians Killed at Barrick�s North Mara Mine Not Forgotten Munk OUT of UofT campaign Approximately 70 people gathered today at a commemoration held for the seven individuals killed in Tanzania at African Barrick Gold�s North Mara Mine. Public outcry over this violence has been amplified by recent reports that local security/police forces employed by the mine have attempted to ban a memorial ceremony for the deceased. To the horror of many local families, these security forces also stole 5 of the 7 peoples� bodies from the mortuary. |
