#subtly implying our entire population of 4 million people are somehow all too stupid to understand a good business deal

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Yeah so as expected, it seems like first quantum minerals will be taking the panamanian government to an international court now (arbitration will apparently take place in florida).

I guess there's nothing panama can do at this point but just present our case and hope they don't win, but honestly it's making me angry. I can't even tell you guys how shady this company is.... They did so much illegal shit and covered it up, but bc they have so much money and power/influence nearly every news outlet in other countries is like "well the company denied those allegations" and leaves it at that.

I also want to add that they did something really similar in the congo, where the DRC government revoked a contract and forced FQM out bc they had breached it's terms SO many times. They also left the congo completely in ruins with massive amounts of pollution and damage to the land (which is exactly what they want to do to us here, and would have if we hadn't fought against it and managed to win), and contributed massively to the situation going on in the congo right now too. Not to mention how much damage they were ALREADY doing here in panama, like the locals have been getting sick for years and the water supply is already poisoned in the region where their mine is.

And it still seems like barely anybody in canada has a clue this is all going on??? It sucks knowing I don't have a big enough platform to bring more international awareness to all this myself, but I also am not good at writing and putting things into words lmao.

But anyway... now that they can't tell photographers to go away, we have more pictures of the mine itself (as it is right now) and it really is enormous already. Like knowing how much more it was going to expand is insane, and right in the middle of a rainforest literally full of endangered animals. It's still such a relief to know this was stopped for good even though its pissing me off how they won't even leave without trying to suck as much money as possible out this country and hurt us as much as possible in the process.

(Here's some of those pictures before I end up ranting more though lmao)

#I had to stop reading articles about it from US news outlets bc it was making me so angry how many of them are on FQM's side too #and there's this really prevalent attitude thats like #subtly implying our entire population of 4 million people are somehow all too stupid to understand a good business deal #and sabotaged our own future by not wanting to host what would be one of the biggest mines in the world + endless other mining operations #like yeah ok. sure. #it was a bad decision to not want most of the country to become a toxic wasteland like the other places they exploited for resources #while having even more money stolen from us at the same time.....😐 #but sorry this post is so long jsdgfgjsdgs I just had to vent #long post #🐊