EARTH CHANGES

As icebergs melt, so does Greenland's distaste for mining

 

 

As icebergs in the Kayak Harbour pop and hiss while melting away, this remote Arctic town and its culture are also disappearing as the climate changes.

 

 

Narsaq's largest employer, a prawn factory, closed a few years ago after the crustaceans fled north to cooler water. Where once there were eight commercial fishing vessels, there is now one. As a result, the population here, one of southern Greenland's major towns, has been halved to 1500 in just a decade.

 

Suicides are up.

 

THICK BLUE LINE

South African miners charged with murder of colleagues shot by police

Platinum miners were arrested following strikes in South Africa have been charged with the murder of their 34 colleagues who were shot dead by police.

Prosecuting authorities in the North West Province brought murder charges against 270 mineworkers based on an old apartheid-era law related to “common purpose".

Under this law, any form of unrest resulting in deaths allows the state to prosecute any people involved in the struggle, even if they were fighting against injustice. (workers.org)

The murder charge – and associated charges for the attempted murder of 78 miners injured at the Marikana mine near Johannesburg – was brought by the national prosecuting authority under an obscure Roman-Dutch common law previously used by the apartheid government.

UPDATE

S. Africa to free miners as murder charges quashed.

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