The true story of Australia’s mining boom is not pretty. While miners claim they’ve saved the country from financial crisis, the social and environmental costs are considerable.
In Dirty Money, The true costs of Australia’s mineral boom, author Matthew Bennsreveals how our soils are polluted, our children are made sick and our farmers are left helpless while methane bubbles in their waterways.
Benn’s story of ‘greed, pollution and murder’ is one that every Australian should read. To accuse the mining industry of murder may seem overly dramatic but in the 1990s when the local Congolese community protested the mining of their silver and copper for which they received nothing, the Australian company Anvil Mining retaliated by facilitating the shooting, beating and drowning of more than 100 villagers.
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