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Op-Ed: Metal Mining Would Be Disastrous for Haiti

*As printed in the NYTimes – Full Op-ed available here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/opinion/metal-mining-haiti.html

By Ellie Happel

After the 2010 earthquake killed more than 200,000 people and displaced more than a million, the government of Haiti identified mining for gold and other metals as necessary to strengthen the economy.

To that end, the government and the World Bank worked to revise the country’s mining law to attract foreign investment. Read More