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286 development dialogue september 2006 – carbon tradingthe subdistrict administrative authority’s committee and residents in‘surrounding villages’. Yet there is little evidence that this ‘comprehensive’programme was satisfactory to local residents. According toDNV itself, the meeting it claimed to hold with the Lam Mai subdistrictauthority took less than one hour.Throughout, DNV presented the project and its participant firms asa ‘black box’ or neutral machine into which formulas for environmentalimprovement, participation and good community relationscould be fed with near-automatic results. Local environmental problemswere seen as stemming from a mere technical gap – one that theCDM project would help fill.Similarly, when at an August 1999 public consultation few respondentsagreed with the project, DNV put it down to ‘previous dissatisfactionwith the dust caused by AP’s operation’ and claimed that, followingthe installation of a new boiler which uses sawdust, ‘Lam Mai[subdistrict] residents no longer disagree with the Project’. 134Are you saying that that’s not true?It’s certainly not the impression given by a number of local residentsinterviewed more recently. To them, the workings of the firms involvedin the project, far from being enclosed in a ‘black box’, areboth open to view and of powerful interest.Several people interviewed pointed out that the AP’s ‘public participationprogramme’ referred to so uncritically by DNV, instead of involvingdissemination of useful information, has featured expenses -paid tours for local people to biomass power plants in Thailand’s centralregion. Such tours, they reported, have included hotel accommodation,food and free visits for some male participants to localprostitutes, but no opportunities for close inspection of the plants inquestion or chances to meet local people.Local residents also pointed to AP’s name on a pavilion that the companygave to a Buddhist temple adjacent to its factory after temple monkscomplained about pollution – an act incurring powerful reciprocal obligations.They noted that other modes of persuasion have also beenused. One elderly resident interviewed reported receiving no less thanthree death threats as a result of voicing criticisms of the AP project.So some of the locals aren’t too keen on carbon trading?Who knows? They understand well what biomass is, but they’ve neverhad a chance to discuss the carbon market. Most people are unawareof the AP project’s projected role in this new global trade.
offsets – the fossil economy’s new arena of conflict 287South Africa –Carbon credits from the citiesDurban Solid Waste (DSW),Botswanapart of Durban’s city councilNamibiaSwazilandLesothobureaucracy, manages alandfill site called the BisasarRoad dump. The largest suchoperation in South Africaand one of the largest in theSouth AfricaSouthern hemisphere, thedump has been in operationsince 1980. Located inan area that was designatedfor people of Indian descentunder apartheid’s Group Areas Act of 1961, the dump is also a pri marysource of livelihood for the mainly African, and poorer, KennedyRoad settlement, established in the late 1980s and now numberingnearly 1,000, who recycle materials from the dump while strugglingwith officials and business to gain more secure rights to the land theirhouses occupy.Although the site is licensed only to receive domestic waste, medicalwaste, sewage sludge, private corporate waste and large shipmentsof rotten eggs have also wound up there. Cadmium and lead emissionsare over legal limits, and limits for suspended particulate matteralso often exceeded. Concentrations of methane, hydrogen chloride,and other organic and inorganic compounds including formaldehyde,benzene, toluene and trichloroethylene are high.That sounds dangerous.Local residents report many health problems, with six out of ten ofthe houses in one downwind block on the nearby Clare Estate reportingcancer cases. The causes of each such individual case of disease arenotoriously difficult to pin down. They could include emissions fromincineration practices, which stopped in 1997, other emissions fromthe dump either before or after, or other factors. Lindsay Strachan,Project Manager of eThekwini Engineering and Projects, claims, forexample that the Kennedy Road settlement, which burns wood andother materials for heating and cooking, is just as likely as the BisasarRoad dump to be the source of health threats. 135But with some houses only 20 metres away from the landfill siteMozambique
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