Lynas, Rare Earths and the War Machine
Lynas Rare Earths likes to present itself as a green technology company, sit with the evidence for an hour, as everyone who joined our recent webinar did, and that story falls apart.
Lynas Rare Earths likes to present itself as a green technology company, sit with the evidence for an hour, as everyone who joined our recent webinar did, and that story falls apart.
A webinar tracing the imperial powers behind the West’s “clean” rare earths champion and the communities who have refused to accept the toxic legacy left in their name.
Opposition to planned mining activities in Beutong Ateuh Banggalang Subdistrict, Nagan Raya Regency, Aceh, has intensified once again. Local communities,
together with the APEL Green Aceh Foundation, officially submitted an open letter signed by 87 national and international organizations to Commission III of the Aceh House of Representatives (DPRA), urging the government to halt all mining permit processes that threaten the Leuser Ecosystem, indigenous communities’ livelihoods, and Aceh’s historical heritage.
We are calling on you to stand once again with the Indigenous peoples of Palawan, the Philippines.