HiPointDem (1,803 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
10's of 1000s thrown off land in uganda so british corp can take it over & sell carbon credits
KICUCULA, Uganda — According to the company’s proposal to join a United Nations clean-air program, the settlers living in this area left in a “peaceful†and “voluntary†manner. People here remember it quite differently. “I heard people being beaten, so I ran outside,†said Emmanuel Cyicyima, 33. “The houses were being burnt down.†Other villagers described gun-toting soldiers and an 8-year-old child burning to death when his home was set ablaze by security officers...
According to a report released by the aid group Oxfam on Wednesday, more than 20,000 people say they were evicted from their homes here in recent years to make way for a tree plantation run by a British forestry company, emblematic of a global scramble for arable land.
Across Africa, some of the world’s poorest people have been thrown off land to make way for foreign investors, often uprooting local farmers so that food can be grown on a commercial scale and shipped to richer countries overseas.
But in this case, the government and the company said the settlers were illegal and evicted for a good cause: to protect the environment and help fight global warming. The case twists around an emerging multibillion-dollar market trading carbon-credits under the Kyoto Protocol, which contains mechanisms for outsourcing environmental protection to developing nations... The company involved, New Forests Company, grows forests in African countries with the purpose of selling credits from the carbon-dioxide its trees soak up to polluters abroad. Its investors include the World Bank, through its private investment arm, and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, HSBC.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/world/africa/in-scramble-for-land-oxfam-says-ugandans-were-pushed-out.html?_r=4&scp=3&sq=uganda&st=cse
here's the oxfam report:
http://www.oxfamnovib.nl/Redactie/Downloads/Rapporten/cs-new-forest-company-uganda-plantations-220911-en.pdf
Tsiyu (13,486 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
1. "New" Forests Company:
Old "**** these humans so I can have MORE MORE MORE" mentality.
Humans are disgusting....
Well, somebody has to cover Algore's carbon footprint...and his celluloid assprint.
raouldukelives (1,509 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
3. Whatever Wall St supporters demand.
Wall St supporters get.
I thought Wall St wanted to destroy the planet by denying global warming.
lonestarnot (67,495 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
4. Richie Richers operating on the poor and defenseless again.
Zalatix (4,345 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
6. Look for more of this shit if 'cap and trade' goes global.
This is why I support CAP, period. No trade, no stupid games, just an all-out worldwide CAP.
I don't see you lily white brats giving up your cell phones and iPods so that means you keep yours while you hold the rest of the world down.
Or you could stop believing in fairy tales so we don't have this shit at all.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002742868
