In Chile, a prickly coalition tries to bring a salt flat back to life

Mongabay
Aug 17, 2021, 7:22 am207 pts
Over the past 27 years, mining for copper by Minera Escondida, a company co-owned by Anglo-Australian mining giants BHP and Rio Tinto, has resulted in a dramatic reduction of water levels in the Punta Negra salt flat in northern Chile, according to public defenders and Indigenous groups. Extraction of water for…

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