Tajikistan
The aluminum smelter in Tursunzade has been a focal point of civil war
combatants. In 1997, up to 25 casualties were reported in a battle between
two army units “apparently over control of the aluminum plant there,”
according to the United Nations. (“Report of the Secretary-General on the
Situation in Tajikistan,” United Nations, S/1997/415, May 30, 1997)
United States
Alcoa digs lignite reserves in the central Texas counties of Bastrop and
Lee. This lignite, a kind of coal, fuels an Alcoa smelter in Rockdale,
Texas. County residents are fighting the company’s plans to expand
strip-mining to 15,000 acres of land owned by San Antonio’s City Public
Service. In the deal, Alcoa would pump aquifer water that would be
extracted as part of the mining operations. (Peggy Fikac, article in
Express-News, Oct. 19, 1999)
Local residents formed the organization Neighbors to Neighbors to fight
resettlement and water depletion that could result from the pact.
According to Bastrop County resident David Houghtling, the Alcoa/San
Antonio “water deal will affect scores of families in Bastrop and Lee
counties. Some of this property has been in families for generations. It
appears that Alcoa intends to use the condemnation powers of San Antonio to
push people off their property.”
He said that Alcoa officials in 1999 contacted “an 85-year-old widowed
family member of mine and told her that she would have to sell her land and
house to them. When she asked what Alcoa was going to do with her house,
she was told that they were going to tear it down. This home has afforded
her a sense of independence and freedom in her later years and Alcoa has no
legal right to condemn property. They have made similar threats to other
neighbors.” (Statement by David Houghtling, on the website
neighborsforneighbors.com, March 8, 1999)
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