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Trinidad & Tobago: Smelter activity continues

Categories: Caribbean, Trinidad & Tobago, Development, Economics & Business, Environment, Governance, Health, Protest

Rights Action T&T, a blog designed to support the protest against the establishment of an aluminium smelter in a community in southern Trinidad, issues a press release [1] reporting that preparations for the establishment of boreholes have begun in the area, and deploring aluminium company Alcoa's “continued attempts to psychologically intimidate members of the Chatham village with their scientific mumbo jumbo and their well oiled PR machine.”