"The Mines Make Us Poor!"

This report documents the effects of industrial mining in Burkina Faso that Ron Little and Don Dudek of Wolfden Resources had a role in developing. Among the findings, "the case of Burkina Faso demonstrates that for a significant part of the population, foreign investment does not necessarily result in the improvement of living conditions. On the contrary, populations affected by large-scale mining are frequently confronted with numerous disadvantages." The authors conclude, "dependency on the extractivist sector—and thus on world commodity prices—is risky; and the price to be paid in terms of

social and ecological impacts remains high."