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244 Pitfalls and Pipelines: Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industries
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Placer Dome followed the lawsuit against the Ok Tedi Mine very closely
and commissioned these reports not long after the case was settled
out of court in 1996. Barrick Gold purchased Placer Dome in 2006.
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Andy Whitmore (2006) aptly compares the mining industry’s attempt
to represent itself as sustainable to the story of the emperor’s new
clothes.
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An interesting example of how corporations manipulate the media
can be seen in Chevron’s response to the news that the American
investigative television program Sixty Minutes planned to report on pollution
from the oil company’s operations in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Chevron hired a former journalist to represent its side of the story and
then purchased Google ads to ensure that its website about the lawsuit,
including their own fourteen-minute video, would appear at the top of
any search as a sponsored link (Stelter 2009).
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