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Weekly Report - 13 July 2017 (WR-17-27)
COLOMBIA: Not in my back yard?
On 9 July two small Colombian municipalities, Pijao (department of Quindío) and Arbeláez (Cundinamarca), voted overwhelmingly to oppose extractive mining or oil and gas drilling. Both are very small areas but the government and Colombia’s extractive industries are worried that this could be the beginning of a nationwide trend.
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