RELOCATION LIES Fact Sheet distributed by La Brea Concerned Citizens United

DON’T BE FOOLED AGAIN – Illegal Operations, Trickery in
Relocation Exercises - FACT!

1. Alutrint is conducting works in its site in violation of the Certificate of Environmental Clearance it got from the EMA. The Section of the Certificate on ‘Resident Relocation and Resettlement’, says:

“All final negotiations for the acquisition of all properties and compensation shall be completed before the commencement of all works” (page 4, Section I, Certificate of Environmental Clearance).

This Resettlement only applies to residents within 100 metres (300 feet) of the Buffer Zone of the Smelter Complex. Alutrint has not settled the negotiations on relocation and acquired all properties but it has commenced works on the site driving test piles and compacting the soil draining out the water. Residents can hear this day and night and have to eat and breathe dust day and night.

CAN WE TRUST THE COMPANY THAT BREAKS THE LAW? IF THIS COMPANY WENT FOR A CERTIFICATE OF CHARACTER, LIKE THE ONES BEING ASKED OF OUR YOUNG PEOPLE BEFORE THEY COULD BE CONSIDERED FOR JOBS, WOULD IT QUALIFY FOR ONE?

2. Alutrint Is Violating the Guidelines in its permit for relocating residents as well as what it says in its own Resident Relocation Plan. Alutrint’s own Resident Relocation Plan says that it is following the World Bank Guidelines, which means it should relocate people to equal or better conditions, they should not lose their livelihoods, and Alutrint should negotiate with the people.

Instead of negotiating, Alutrint, through its valuation company Row and NEC, has disrespected and bossed around the residents and tries to move them to place as far as Debe where they cannot keep their jobs in La Brea and put them in pre-fab houses that are inferior. Now it decided to put them in Hubertstown without talking to the residents.

The residents have requested a formal meeting that is documented and cannot get one. Alutrint does not want to meet the residents in public meetings it wants to pick us off one by one and meet “leaders” so that it can give them hands outs and breaks our strength. Why doesn’t Alutrint want to come into the light?

3. Alutrint is trying to make the public feel that they are going along fine with relocation. THEY ARE NOT! Alutrint had a ceremony to turn the sod at Hubertstown and it was attended mostly by URP workers that they brought in to fill up the place. None of the residents that were supposed to be relocated attended except for one who went to speak to them about our cause.

ALUTRINT WANTS THE REST IF TRINIDAD TO BELIEVE THAT LOCAL PEOPLE ARE ALL HAPPY WITH ALUTRINT AND IT IS ONLY A SAMLL GROUP THAT IS UNHAPPY. THIS IS HOW THEY ARE HOPING TO SNEAK THROUGH AND BULID THE SMELTER TO SMELT ALL OF US IN SOBO, VANCE RIVER, VESSIGNY AND UNION.
ARE WE GOING TO LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THEIR TRICKERY AGAIN?

4. Alutrint is trying to pass off responsibility for relocation as if it is NEC’s responsibility. IT is NOT! The NEC transferred the certificate of environmental clearance to Alutrint since the beginning of 2008.

Alutrint is legally and soley responsible for everything concerning the smelter whether it is hiring people to build it or settling relocation. So whether it is NEC doing the relocation, or ROW, or people from another planet, Alutrint is still responsible to the residents and is responsible for doing it in accordance with what is in the Plans and requirement of the Certificate of Environmental Clearance. It is not doing this and when the truth comes out it tries to blame the NEC. What kind of people do that sort of thing?

ALUTRINT HAS PROVEN THAT IT CANNOT BE TRUSTED.
DO YOU TRUST ALUTRINT WITH YOUR LIFE?

GET THE FACTS. STAND UP FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY.
COME OUT AND JOIN OTHER VILLAGERS TO STAND UP TOGETHER.
EITHER THE SMELTER GOES AND RESIDENTS GET REGULARISED OR WE ALL GET RELOCATED

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Together We Will !!!