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… in any way. So, when he found the courage to come out to me, I responded by taking his hand in mine in the hospital room, and saying, "You're my big brother, and I love you, and will always …

… you something that happened in a parish church in this diocese not too long ago. A friend of mine told me about what happened. Her brother is a street person. Her mother is a daily …

… One group of miners, formerly employed by Blackjewel, now want what the bankrupt coal mining operation owed them: an estimated $2.6 to $5.5 million in back wages. They blocked train … to come from the Blackjewel Marketing & Sales Holdings, which owned the last shipment of mined coal. There is now a new owner, Tennessee-based Kopper Glo Mining. But that company will …

… The human face of the Blackjewel coal mine bankruptcy … : Kentucky miners, formerly employed by bankrupt coal mining operation Blackjewel, are struggling to survive; they shared their stories with NCR. "Much …

… — including human trafficking for the sex trade and virtual slave labor — that accompany mining, oil drilling, industrial agriculture and large-scale infrastructure projects. In their …

… case in the latest effort to dismiss, while attorneys for the plaintiffs pushed for a halt on mining and drilling permits on public lands while the appeal is heard. Lawyers with Our …

… and forest concessions, massive logging, monocultures, roads, waterways, railways, and mining and oil projects); pollution caused by the extractive industry and city garbage dumps; …

… its members have stood alongside local communities and witnessed the impacts of logging and mining on both their ancestral lands and their rights. Gauthier said there has long been …

… "look at the next election," he observed. "They want to have production, they want to have mining, they want to have economic growth, and they all seek economic growth in terms of finance, … "If we want the governments of the Pan-Amazonian countries to change their policies of mining and deforestation," he said, "we have to offer them a real solution by maybe leasing the …

… participants have raised — including destruction of forests, pollution of rivers, rapacious mining and especially climate change — are also common to other tropical regions of the world. … four-minute presentations during the first two weeks of the synod, participants described how mines, dams and other enterprises owned, built or operated by companies in industrialized …

… threat from the global appetite for steak and hamburgers — cattle ranching — and extractive mining. People here are hoping that the synod will recognize that the more that Amazon residents …

… about the ecological destruction being inflicted on the Amazon by extractive industries (oil, mining and lumber), cattle ranchers, monoculture and hydroelectric dams. The Amazon's natural … take away indigenous lands, rivers and sources of food, as do cattle ranches and monoculture. Mines do the same plus pollute the land and water with cancer-causing chemicals. These issues are … Later, the auto industry exploited them in rubber plantations. Today it is cattle, mining and monoculture industries that invade their territories. Even now, "Several mega-projects …

… across the Amazon, the lack of access to clean drinking water, the destructive practices of mining and logging companies, and violence against women. Many of the groups also speak …

… have legal title, they risk losing their land to land speculators, private enterprises like mining companies, or outsiders who engage in illegal logging, wildcat gold mining or other illicit activities. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has halted the demarcation …

… in the Amazon" and "How are we implicated," especially in ties to or outright ownership of the mining and other companies extracting resources, polluting the land and waters and leaving entire … trying to protect their lands from the activity of various extractive industries like mining and logging, she said, the Lakota Sioux and others are fighting the encroachment on their …

… stay open and middle-minded to them, because no matter how fiercely their views may contradict mine, I still love them. And want to continue to respect and interact with them. But being yanked …

… would not be heard. Environmental destruction by extractive industries such as logging, mining and oil companies has been a recurring theme in the synod. "The people who come to extract …

… discussions. Licuy said he hoped the synod would result in a call for an end to oil drilling, mining and indiscriminate logging in Ecuador. Stripping the mountains of trees, he said, robs … indigenous organizations are calling for an end to oil drilling, as well as to the large-scale mining that has begun in Ecuador in recent years. Government officials say mining is necessary to increase revenue, especially since the drop in oil prices. Azcona said he …

… discussions. Licuy said he hoped the synod would result in a call for an end to oil drilling, mining and indiscriminate logging in Ecuador. Stripping the mountains of trees, he said, robs … indigenous organizations are calling for an end to oil drilling, as well as to the large-scale mining that has begun in Ecuador in recent years. Government officials say mining is necessary to increase revenue, especially since the drop in oil prices. Azcona said he …

… trumped the needs of the people and the environment. Other bishops spoke of the damage done by mines. Rainforests have been bulldozed to get at precious metals. Rivers have been polluted by toxic chemicals used in the mining process. Fish, on which the indigenous survived for centuries, were killed off. Aquifers …