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as in high demand around the world. cobalt industrial countries urgently need the medical to make that change. the host of all the electric vehicles and the race to slow climate change. cobalt has become key to the transition away from fossil fuels. who's paying the price the . the

whole lazy is the cobalt capital of the world's way here in the house with the cost to build an industrial region location, the southern part of the sea and neighboring sand, beyond a century of mining shapes and landscape. this is my 1st trip to co lazy. what struck me most was just how the whole city was built around the mining industry, the around and on top of these, these minerals. and just this very, very, very strong feeling that these people, the people living that should be benefiting from this extraordinary wealth, which is generating prosperity, the chinese companies, european companies, american companies. but they're suffering, then all the ones benefiting from this, you know, this particular came home and in some parts of the city where homes have a being demolished, to make way,

fix the expansion of industrial mines. it comes home in the parts of the city where people are digging down into the basement. so the houses are under ground to access the cables. it's extremely dysfunctional. i'm just international is had a program on, on corporate accountability and the role that companies play in human rights abuses around the world for about 15 years now. and we've, we've had done previous projects in the d. c, looking at the mining industry but, but primarily focused on the, the big industrial mines you know, during the reading about is doing some basic research about this revealed to me, you know, obviously it's not a secret for anyone in the d. c, but the, the autism mining sector was becoming increasingly large, particularly when it came to cobalt decruz, the diggers who are risking their lives in the health to take this, this,

this mccloud, they're also not receiving probably very few receiving a fair price for that labor. they're being exploited financially. we found the children, the youngest 7 rate, but also involved in this, in this industry of the doing that because the forced by the 2nd the main point is that the report with it as much as 20 percent of the goals total was coming from a to mines in the d. c. we wanted to know where this google went, who was buying this, which companies which tech companies, you know, the mobile phone manufacturers, the laptop manufacturers were using this cable in the batteries. and what would they doing to, to understand the supply chain and understand these conditions the response

we got. so this report drawing the links to, you know, from child labor, autism mining the cable industry linking these mines to these famous brands. had a massive media pickup, much more than we were expecting. calling the m as to the pulse of 2016. the mining industry was forced to make its supply chains were transparent. then in 2019 v o e c t port to get to the most important companies that are formed in coal lazy. the aim was to support them in tracing cobalt. how dementia, woods, due diligence, due diligence is a process. web buy companies are suppose to map the

supply chains or other business relationships and operations and identify in what ways those the business relationships or supply chains might be linked to human rights abuses. and if that means, okay, all the way to the point of a extraction, and so many manufacturers commission to service provide to all cs global to discover the conditions under which the cobalt was being mined. the company monitors industrial mines and just trying to integrate the hot seasonal mines in to to the agents programs. one of the minds audited by aussie is global has made all the due diligence criteria. the pilot mine in customer will, a district of coal lazy in 2014, a resident here discovered a vein of cobalt which was already attracted. as many as 15000 prospect is to

ensure the district didn't collapse and to keep children of a, the provincial government expropriated the prophecy. it then transferred operation of the mind to hawaii cobalt, which we settled the residents as part of the deal. the chinese company is relying about seasonal mind incorporates to extract the mishal, why you didn't buy is what's produced and has commissioned all c is global with its due diligence. it's good for the company's image company he'd come on to find from amnesty international selling coal mine using child labor now for spaces in costume to no longer with the lives of the list are still at the mercy of the chinese who set the price for what they bought the good the supplement by the how much does it cost to claim a shaft like this done by people up with them. i mean was was thing guns forgot sent me 350002400000 comb. please frank. i think you more i will keep you guys. did

you think it'd be gold or wouldn't the scaffold and it's to reinforce the want to start the funds. how about this? i mean that costs around 200000 francs. those are the funds i have to know before that we pay the, the tops and all the rent money they may be able to get. we need 3 scaffolds and all that. but i've got meaning and i'd be 12. no, that's fine. 100000 francs to support the shawn. i say, can i show how much does the cooperative cover look good to go to. oh god, i get it came to the co operative doesn't care about me. so how much is left for you then? and then i can do this right now, going to not gotten you, but just enough to pay for manual fund. now i will pointing to the mine and laundry so so the we look clean when i started, scott, i get with the flu. i see, i see cause say that this is good, work just don't have to meet, you know, it's nice to see it guys have yet to if i to the i'm with the doesn't offer any

future. there's not a problem on the next. you don't spend anything because we don't do, you know, what are we supposed to live on the sign in front of me on the sign on 0. we should data companies like c, s global, have the numerous power in the new market at the q diligence services to get bar. i think, given the, continually changing out seasonal mind, some conflicts supply chains. how could one guarantee genuine pricing? there were different ways in which the downstream companies try to dodge their responsibility. one of those is to hire consultants, expensive consultants who basically conduct the due diligence themselves to the reporting. and that's kept that there will most of the links from the company itself. the other thing that the companies do is joint industries gains. so they're doing that with all the other companies in the sector. and they, they create

a body which does the due diligence for them all or promotes a set of standards, which they will sign up to. and then it's just a paper exercise taken, we'll say, yes. we agree with these standards which signed up to the standards. but it doesn't necessarily lead to the change we want to see on the ground. and that's why there is a role for organizations. i am as the international but particularly a role for organizations like don't as in, in crazy because you need the voices and the, the expertise of lawyers and activists. and scientists and community members themselves. and mine is in the d. c. understanding what's going on and, and exposing what's going on. because we've got to see that change that it's not good just having, you know, a fancy report on a website. as in the past, the emphasis continues to be on child labor. and with good reason, there was still thousands of children working in the small mines in the law. but if

many in cios say that as a result of the other problems which cannot be solved with 2 dimensions, while i forced resettlement without appropriate compensation, environmental pollution and corruption, a pushed into the background and legal kick sees a key. so let me know, don't, and sick double to move in the become a cause a very reserved when it comes to this topic. and that's just for the example. now you the this for example, they've been farms organized by the o e c d on this very issue of responsible procurement of mineral looking just under to do and go through it know kind of discussion on corruption. can you find a representative of the auto industry willing to sit next to me and explain his industry's point of view? this was the post office office the and does use a just like the little girl work. yes, it's good to saw. so there's a topic is practically to do because everyone noticed that the problem effect the

launch part of the cobalt supply chain that i send the copays and logical but it wondering of come the leaves. natural resources is nothing new. motor. 60 is built in colonial rules in which themselves, from the comb, cuz resources after independence was declared in 1960, a new type of plundering began to dictate the boot assistants, eco, and these friends saw from both billions and profit from the states own camino company is inconvenient in 1997, the whole design competing has ceased, pallet and a war for accounts. off the computer was assassinated in 2001. his son is joseph, became president. he restored peace and stimulation of the mining sector in order to feel government costs is jason mean was bankrupt on do mean due

in 2002. it turns out that jake, i mean, was just as broke as the congolese government platform amicus and not just economically the left bottom on the, the world bank forced reforms on the governmental it. they said that they said to us, going to yes, you have the minerals that we finally, but not the resources to make the sector reliable. re open your country up to multinational corporations move muskets up. event worked well for us because the congolese government already had his hands in the mining business and could earn dividends as well as the diesel that i didn't mean you. you saw glen core in 1st quantum or among the multi nationals that came into the congo for scott to say laguna, all the big ones came but not to give the people the future. for monday, they all came to make deals and as i said, i don't think they call it lucy. still the preventers will g for the. yeah, a full window, the in order to understand the cobalt sector. when you 1st have to look at how the

companies that are active today in the congo success to obtain the mining licenses involved, especially the cobalt bison. so that's it is what i'd like to step in then. yes, please keep the shows up, dumped and is ready. businessman named dan gal closest. he played sort of the mediator role between the multi nationals that were interested in licenses for carpet and cobalt. definitely. and the company's petitions who could make decisions about who called the license of this, you know, just use it, but in many cases this happened. let me bring us to not yet a multinational corporation for to be at this with glencoe group for the cause i q ration research group. wanted to get some license that once belonged to the state companies. you're coming to that you gave me an incentive selling the license directly to the corporation or holding around as bidding to find the best invest. uh is it coming that something that's known as the director wanted the contracts loan. so please that is all the license a very low price to down gap sales. yeah. they don't need to have good connections

to the phone with president different. joseph kabibi. oscar, you get to push alex, push it all that out. is it? yeah. won't use the closest you'll actually betsy after you came to power in 2001 just as could be in a different to den get got to was bringing new money into the congo at a time when the country urgently needed investment. he made a way for west and companies to enter the country in 2007 to form a global leisure enroll materials. glenn cole received the best prospecting licenses in the country through good. the votes became co shareholders in terms of mining, one of the world's largest coal mines, clear and cold, and learned good me and soft. he negotiate has another mind deal with the congo. when this transaction became public, these rarely came up on the useful throne. she's res. i suspected good little

bribing that could be in the regime regarding several projects. sometimes even with the participation of a u. s. investment fund, it's estimated that the call is government law, smelled and repeating in us dollars during the cost of these deals. things became uncomfortable for good luck. and so as a result of this, he was placed under the sanctions. and the other actors were also place a certain high officers that that could be leveraging and others as well. but certainly he is the largest target. it was the largest target in terms of the value of the assets. he controls the u. s. which also wanted to invest in the congo filed lawsuits against den catlin and glen colt, britain in switzerland, or also investigation. the company in 2022. the swiss multi national and now citizens set aside $1500000000.00 us dollars for legal disputes. how do

industrial groups like you, me call him belgium, which sources cobalt from clean cool view that if there is a conviction, we would need to assess what is happening. we will do our own assessments as well. if the judge finds that the party is guilty and we will look into it and then make our our decision, of course. yeah. based on the the legal outcome, please. yes, it is all specific. i'm to come see if we did not surround the disappointing to me . he expressed the means. imagine that you go to a company that's fine, go that's being mind using times. naples a. nobody's both at buy it because the company hasn't been convicted for doing it all for i don't think you have a problem understand. now when it comes to child labor, you never hear the arguments, no conviction, no problem. but it's different with corruption that pulled in as long as no one gets convicted, it's fine, but the lid, you have

a pull in. it is clear to us that corruption is not a victimless crime. and so often that's how it's portrayed. it is money passing hands between middleman and corrupt elite officials. but of course, at the end of that chain are frequently ordinary citizens who suffer quite dramatically as a result of the corruption and the corruption around the metal. coal mine was no exception. mitchell cole only works with columbus long tiles of mine, tidings that will deposited in coal waves the junior built and colonial period. today the site has some of the richest yields and the coffee built in the early 2, thousands the canadian company 1st quote to receive prospecting rights. it was the deal of the century. the tiling still contained $300000.00 tons of cobalt with the value of 20 us dollars. and suddenly that could be the regime pulled the plug on

the 1st quarter of it and withdrew the license. we now know from court documents and court records, what happened? and what occurred is that the mining license had been stripped through the assistance of a company owned by don gartner, who saw this as a very profitable mine. he held it for a short period of time and then slipped it to a large multinational mining company then called your ration natural resources corporation, today called duration resources group, or e r g. and the company owns the mine today. but we know through court records, it was a mind that was corrupted away by done gartner, bribing congolese officials, including congress, east judges in order to obtain the mining permit. it will usually, if it is all the way you need something back, then several 100 was, were employed for the building. the new processing count in court weighs the

universe and all these people suddenly lost their drops to death. we found the home for the cause, the company you ration resources, great thing completed, the facility which from then on was known as medical co, battiata. despite all the sessions to the contrary, the 701st quantum workers who were funded would not compensate to move rehired. most of the steps in 1st, i don't know if it was a timely delivery, mind tailings, you know, that's the sparkling stuff. you know, it's worth, i agree. yeah. well uh we desert that the reason for the desert that don't the middle, but where does metal coal get? the cobalt wisdom is the t lee metal coal works back there must be a quite far away. yes. behind the smoke back there,

that's where mental coal started. the recovery. later it went as far as here. i'll come on see some of the old buddies issues because the new project, the pleasure they need, that goes with new projects such as metal coal, as on ethical. so we filed a lawsuit and fed and a cool gdc, a stand up as a low cost. it's an appeal to you to the collective consciousness applied on what parts of my thing was the engine to us and all those involved that so not to confront the final consumers international n g o's and the companies this was using the cobalt, but they should also consider the living conditions of local communities that are involved in it's mining just but that, that i've as it goes up and i hope that with our involvement funds, we could make the parties aware of the real problems copper and cobalt mind in not

just the issue of child labor. lucas, if i'm not saying that the child labor isn't a problem on that, but it's not the biggest problem in the sector by the people don't program. you think that about what do you expect from the court? what i mean, that it results the case, what, that's what we get paid at the r as in justice with the money. but what do you expect from the hearings? we have come up with that i'll get paid. then i'll get my severance, pay him up instead of paying and all at once to be paid in installments, they have to do the $600.00 train as i would do to find the mess yourself from that normal 600000 francs. we're getting fired with the company. it's going to go into the budget. how much does he does when he lived on my food stamp, when i was to i and enough money to pay school fees for the children and to pay the doctor now. now i can no longer full to become sick. it's bad, jones. i was even able to pay the child tax with my wages. i mean i how can i find

a new job without blessing that but that guys you what the me not, not clicking on. okay. just terminated the contract without any compensation. honestly, if we didn't exactly protect up really because they didn't pay anything. but it's, i know we don't match it to them, but they're drawn up. they're not, you know, people are taking off with us that she knew profit equal to be not. we are hoping for a great deal from this case. we'll hang in there until the end. when we should look, company has to admit its mistake and compensate us. it's about the phase. one is i know that they're getting rich with what they're producing, they're so don't go to shoes. and we saw the people who built the factory in horror story and safety, the left, some of the things that's unfair, similar to what i'm thinking, even a shot of a good that says if you would work a field together with your children, they will put it in as i'm fine, then when it's harvest time, you go and get the neighbors cancel. that's what's happening here. sick, a us at the point that we still had work, we had access to medical care. we aren't enough to send our children to school

that day like going to you and i got fired and my daughter became very ill. come to us. i did all i could to see that she was treated in the hospital. i looked at the lot. they turned me away for a new law or not. if she's a she died on the way home. i see a lot. i'll go do. let's go with my son died a year later. my opinion on that's my daughter. he anita disappeared. name was not much. yes. she had malaria and at this a farm through the year and that's him. what was his name? something separate. i really like what happened?

we had malaria and the yellow fever and my brother. yeah. in a few years old, just a few visual he died to legislative a. c was 8 years old, the width of the be of the 60 small donor for welcome to radio television money coming. today we're talking about eco system, the can invest. what are the consequences of mining for the local population? today, our guest as professor bones are a toxicologist, and professor at the university of lubo, mushy professor, what were you doing here and go away? the walk was to see that's what it shows up. what is it, is that welcome us here or the bad? that if i 1st we assess the level of contamination of the eco systems that are

relevant for the population that i did. a guest saw a lady for the company that saw the polluted of the water ways to get put them in as a duplex so. so somebody's gonna, how contaminated are the fish that are in the cool book? and so what the new take us, i don't see a nickel, somebody that they need for the quote, the nina. so after that we looked at people's house either the 1st of us will give us. so i thought we wanted to see how much they've been affected by eating the fish weaving in the dust and by the general contamination of their environment. they did the lucky that it didn't. so the professor sell us phone phone song has been investigation. we each a logical and health impacts of companies mining for 15 years working for several in ga us. it's something companies applying due diligence don't take all that seriously. i look it up to the see girl, is that the,

the old from here, the acid flows down as far as the new river a lot. if you have a need in which blows into the congo in your village setup on the flow of google and you would utilize, it sits, it is as easy luck with the vote. the people who lived there will tell you that they can smell the acid at night. did i see that? it was responsible for this ecological disaster to this aspect? what is it? said the commercial copper company. first and foremost, all that belongs to glen court to follow their plans as over there the ship. lucy, see the last who that foam as long as you but goodly, but then when the basement is full, they open the drain. gonna do that. so it says equals the then the color of the water changes, and this phone forms from the line that they dump into the basic, or deluxe realty, sometimes the sit on the bus you because you've made the like the deluxe, don't put in the, unless they put the alignment to keep the piece value greater than 70 to the cit.

mit is in plus, becky, this is what i mean. but i don't think it works because the toxic metals prevent the acid from being neutralized way a lot of the less they did the lawyer and maybe they started with the city about that. so they'll say, look at the water, the soil and the money. yeah, of course of interest the color shows that we continue to have a very serious problem here to dr. risk. ready because this river flows into the condo to the flu, google said land, but congo is one of africa's most important river lots but, but it provides a large part of our country's water to be available to, to stick and resolve on. let me see what it's just about impossible for us to get an appointment with the authorities to deal with this issue on the demand, even here at the provincial level. really that goes over this. it was time for me that when the company wants an appointment or not, it gets when he immediately was that is the because the company pays for it. what was the name of pc 9 say it was and for the same reasons. so you can almost rule

out getting supports for the activities of benji. oh, it's less safe to say said under pressure from n g o is glen cool. finally consumes the leakage of so fuel rick acid. but it said it didn't have any effects on the stock sufficient surrounding ponds. our ducks, weakly, the company has already begun compensating victims and cleaning up the ponds. phyllis bones on his team to take this highly elevated co, both by using the blood and you're on mine with this from co ways e or in an article in a journal nature's sustainability. they were quoting changes in the dna of children who didn't have the task, an indication of an increased risk to can so say the professor is conducting test on about a 100 prospectors. they were exposed to radio. radioactive scans released from rogers was that which contains uranium. who is the police, the police, the police?

i believe i believe the fluids cuz that's what i've seen. i've got my email tied to the find any emphasize? yeah, it will be less. it looks in the way you want it to become a guy's. he would have to look them up to see if that's not you didn't. my facility couldn't give them a promot continuum of what that looks like because i'm going to put you on that 10 m. o. e and 90 a month. you have to move my neck. you have to move the book a little. you know, you're my mother's you, you know, 10 and under book me i nicole, your 999 is that that might not be as if i put into a little by single month of 199 that you met and the phone but not so i'm just getting back with them on a 40 something because if it's in the sense that i'm problem, if we can't get a handle on the pollution, we're going to have a huge problem soon. group out there won't be any life left in the rivers, and that's, i don't even know most of the rivers and the former province of good tongue are

contaminated, that, that lazy does have what you sell in, not just here, but in cuba who's got plus to practically everywhere they've my natural resources. is this assuming that yes, the problem is also the most and we don't watch out about this country is going to have an ecological and toxicological scandal. at a for table is the case of the land of 1000 lakes. it's not just time to some of the largest offices send us is also one of the continents most important sources of fresh water. a resource that could be threatened by money. in 20121000 take tis of rivers and lakes were destroyed when toxic sludge was released from the salt come online, which belonged to the tennessee fire mining company. public pressure led to the mines closure until the terra farm agreed to close. so for ration, 10 years later,

victims of the disaster still waiting for compensation. they said, well, what's the stay to the length of the cube to our lake here? yes. in the money both, but hopefully it's not as bad as lucky. i'll be right now. yeah, i mean really name because in italy, feel about that. it's full of algae again in the fall of 2015, it was really bad. and for a few years now it's been getting worse again boy, and we had to take up and that's it would have been a waste of work otherwise doing today. i see, but also i still wish not the only just diffused really me. yes. a said we're catching so few now that it doesn't even cover our cost that has some quantity of force. so think of the many ethical got it well after the kids to suck a base and linked. nobody wanted our fish anymore. not even for free. fishing was just about that guy but ended on for about 3 or 4 years now. there's beneficial guns available, but we really got serious reservations about selling them out of the stuff and

wholesalers, having taken professionally, caught fish for years anyway. and now you've always got to be going to court hearings, yona and yeah, if you want to call it that, you will, it will probably continue at the beginning of december and the district court goes, the 1st steering is over on and the administrative court is also involved island or goes to own culture. and then what do you have to say about the hearings? and i do have, hopefully i live to see the day they make a ruling model. see awesome at any rate in new york and we've already been suffering as a result of the damage for 10 years and never waging a war of attrition through y'all say own so i could say that on the now that terra firma has taken over most of the insolvency, each one of the defendants has a team of 2 or 3 well known lawyers as an adult. the get out on really they've got ever said h p. p partners and the most expensive law firms in the country. so that and i'll

just keep on fighting and fighting. i'm not going to settle for a murder. that's understandable. it's unfair and wrong to your, to brian most of the loan and lost his case even though he had expired reports that shows what the pollution did to the fish in the like how he earns his living in a cell, the victims, i'm not finding an appeal because they can't afford this environmental activist, mika flush knows all the details of the 2012 dis hasta, he's outraged by the negligence of the mines for my own now. and it's among us who called for it's kotia. we're very concerned about that data problem at that time. we do what's called the bottom line is very concerned about the same box to the weather's monday's day that, that it's a bali chain and the most environment,

the friends of mine in the world. and they don't release any way. so whether it said that was those way or the marketing lines that the politician as a regional opponent, they send some people. that's why they should chip all the suits mine the the reason for the bankruptcy, i guess i'm many and i, i think i'm not the right person to to go to to wait until they bought the basic setting. you know where the idea so when they invest it to, to the side, i have now proven to be the right once they did me some very important elements like, well, the treatment, the so all the rain, both of these raining in this area and thought to use the, the, or, or the rock and it needs to be collect data to reflect before it can be this to us,

back to the nature of these kind of facilities. they did not plan originally and for them to see so that that must have been one of the reason that they did find into the process with that, with what the, the 1st thing we did was thought to be a bit of the a sense of what the statement plot is known best available, the extra lucky, a sense level of the treatment plant that's about less than a ditch discharge pipeline from the since the faith and plant all the way to the big what the waste and we started to purify the water. so they'll click on it when it's raining heavily, it doesn't, the impact the it doesn't innovators, the stuff to production we, we purified the water and release it, violating with which are so thankful to say that the they, they. ready invested on and built here, what's not the operating city during this time. so we have done

lots of lots of the development to, to make it for, you know, in a stable manner. but the basic ideas are the same as us. they have nation flow doesn't trust industry clients. neither does he already know tune in a biochemist and the chem and it's the n g a mining watched in month then monitoring the surroundings of the mind operations, but tara salma that's foaming down there from line. seen of it at the top line is used as a precipitation agent for the metal. it's a bosco's and that's with farming here. there was a big leak here. yeah. yeah that, that, that sounds. i said he met the oh so how soon are you here? the settlement is contaminated under water quality is poor. official analysis found evidence of heavy metals reform. a has admitted that there was a leak in 2020. the claims that this was been sealed. it says the concentration is measured by you already know. tuning come from natural sources. the biochemist

doubts that the most frequent pipe can break it any time and release of toxic brute into the soil. right, that sounds like drive up to sorting on. got them. the biggest problem here is this mind? yes it yes, the way struck the tailings that can't be used 0. give us down as a so for content of 9 percent. yeah. yeah. but that's every give activated. yeah. yeah. oh my god. so for relax, with water in here on the on. if you, if you have a ton of ways truck, the reaction with water in air will produce 300 kilos of concentrated sulfuric acid as yeah. yeah that, that so yeah, this reaction goes on for thousands of years. now. as long as that type of rock is still here, yet the thought that supporters of the mind colors and then the saw on that stands for knots in my backyard as if it were just about something local. that is how do i but who would like to step out of the door of their house and find a 300 kilogram,

don't full of toxic waste that destroys the environment. but that's what we do. that's and that's the shouldn't be happening today. absolutely. no. does it does, may i have the sack out the hiccup of the respect to electric cars and needs a thought. secondly, thoughts on that that is that, that, that means that the year after year need thought that just a good nickel for the battery of a single electric car to produce 50 tons of this hazardous waste on the that that was always. but yet that, that's frightening these good methods on the, on the 50 tons, just with a nickel and a single electric car. battery. yeah. yeah. i thought that was because they also noticed that yeah, with the car buyer, maybe like to get these problems delivered to their driveway along with the car. then take that copy holidays and now it's in the interest of the planet for people to be driving electric vehicles. if you're going to get a call, you know what, i would say you get a bike. but if, if you want to get a call,

get an electric call rather than a diesel. petro powered one in the interest of the planet and future generations. that's, that's fine. but if you do that off the call make, what goes into a battery? what are you doing to make sure that the, the, the, the mining that pulls out, the metals that goes into that battery? what are you doing to make sure that's not harmful? that's not harming the people of the d. c or other countries by this mining takes place. it's just the katie has been president of the democratic republic of the congo since the 2019 the promise to renegotiate the mining treaties of the process of taking time and accomplish people as to filing to process the wealth of resources in the country. meanwhile, millions of these continues to try on our streets, powered by co home from the combat. and every day

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