{"id":1018,"date":"2021-07-02T16:42:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T16:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2021-08-16T16:32:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T16:32:12","slug":"communities-ditched-conservation-for-mining-now-the-miners-arent-living-up-to-their-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/2021\/07\/02\/communities-ditched-conservation-for-mining-now-the-miners-arent-living-up-to-their-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Communities Ditched Conservation For Mining. Now The Miners Aren\u2019t Living Up to Their Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong> Banner Image:<\/strong>  <em>Solway Mining has been exploring Mount Delton beginning 2020. The DayLight\/William Q. Harmon<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BY William Q. Harmon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Russian-Liberian company Solway Mining Incorporated is not living up to a memorandum of understanding with Blei and Sehyi Ko-doo authorized forest communities in Nimba County<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Solway owes the communities two years of health and education payments, which by law should be at least two percent of its budget this and last year<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The communities do not know the amount they are owed as Solway has refused to disclose the budgets<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Blei and Sehyi Ko-doo changed their conservation management plans to \u201cmultiple use\u201d to allow Solway explore iron ore on Mt. Blei and Mt. Delton. They are now threatening to pull out of the agreement if the company continues to dishonor it.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Solway-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Solway-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Solway-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Solway-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Solway-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Solway-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Solway-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Solway-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Solway.jpg 1430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Solway Mining has been exploring Mount Delton beginning in 2020. The DayLight\/William <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ZOLOWEE, Nimba County \u2013 When Solway Mining Incorporated finally signed a memorandum of understanding with Blei and Sehyi Ko-doo in June last year, it brought an end to a yearlong legal battle with the leaders of the two forest communties. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MoU meant the company was now free to explore for iron for three years in the combined 222 hectares of montane, muggy forestlands in the Gbehley-Geh, Yarmein and Sehyi districts of Nimba County. &nbsp;The communities had to change their forest management plans from conservation to \u201cmultiple use\u201d for the exploration to go on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But tension is brewing again as Solway has failed to live up to its side of the agreement. The Liberian-Russian company has not paid the communities portion of its budget since last year as mandated by law. It has made other promises it has not fulfilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need this money and the company should start doing all it can to begin payment,\u201d said Ericson Flomo, chief officer of Sehyi ko-doo\u2019s community forest management body. \u201cSome of our people fear that Solway has given us the money and we have eaten it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">None of Blei and Sehyi Kod-oo know how much the company owes them because they have not seen the budget is. The Ministry of Mines and Energy has not told them and the company is not willing to tell them either. Solway had said last year it had a <a href=\"https:\/\/frontpageafricaonline.com\/news\/liberia-mining-undermines-conservation-of-forest-next-to-nimba-reserve\/\">US$13 million budget<\/a> for the project in the area. If that is the case, the company owes the communities US$260,000 at least for that year. &nbsp;Its failure to pay the fund is a breach of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mlmeliberia.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/08\/liberia-minerals-and-mining-law-2000.pdf\">Minerals and Mining Law of 2000<\/a>. The law mandates mining companies granted exploration licenses to give at least two percent of their operational budget to project-affected communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis does not show good dealings and openness from the company to us as a community,\u201d says Saye Thompson, the chief officer of Blei. \u201cTheir budget supposed to be public information that we could access easily but this has not been so though we continue to inquire persistently.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe were working with people who were helping us to keep our forests. Since we had a change of heart and accepted Solway here, they should not treat us like children,\u201d said Oretha Nahn, the secretary of Sehyi Ko-doo. \u201cWhat belongs to us should be given us if we are to work together smoothly.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company denied any wrongdoing, blaming Thomson and Ericson for the delayed payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe communities have refused to engage the company after countless invitations,\u201d Solway\u2019s operation officer, Ben Davis, told The DayLight in an interview. \u201cWe have been giving the communities guidance on how to get the money, but their leadership has not been cooperating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are not compelled by any law to make known our budget. If the communities want it they can go to the Ministry of Mines. It is the institution of government that approves our budget, so it has the budget,\u201d Davies added. He did not answer queries for comments on other aspects of MoU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy did not respond to queries for comment on the matter. This reporter emailed Assistant Minister for Exploration Rexford Sartuh but did not get a response. That was followed by text messages, phone calls and three visits to the ministry\u2019s Capitol Hill headquarters, which also did not materialize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Solway\u2019s failure to pay Blei and Sehyi Ko-doo does not only breach the mining law. It flouts the MoU, too. The company agreed in the MoU to pay the fees towards health and education directly into the communities\u2019 account. Furthermore, it has violated and the MoU in other ways. It has failed to support its reforestation programs, provide safe drinking water, and fund maintenance and administration works of the leadership of the two community forests. It has also failed to support forest guards and make payment for trees it felled while paving a road into the humid forestlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Solway-Minning-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Solway-Minning-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Solway-Minning-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Solway-Minning-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Solway-Minning-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Solway-Minning-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Solway-Minning-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Solway-Minning-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Solway-Minning.jpg 1430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Solway headquarters in Sanniquillie, Nimba County. The DayLight\/William Q. Harmon <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Solway\u2019s relationship with the communities has always been tense, even from the very beginning.&nbsp; Solway began work in the forests without the consent of the communities, a violation of the &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov.lr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Community-Rights-Law-of-2009-with-Respect-to-Forest-Lands.pdf\">Community Rights Law (CRL) of 2009 with Respect to Forest Lands<\/a> that created the idea of community forestry. The communities sued Solway at the Sanniquillie Magisterial Court. The court halted the company\u2019s work on two occasions and fined it US$3,000 for illegal entry in line with the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was not the end of the controversy, though. Solway\u2019s arrival shattered the communities\u2019 conservation plans, with rebukes from the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) and civil society organizations alike. Before the company came, the community received support from national and international partners such as ArcelorMittal, the United<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">States Forest Service and USAID. The communities\u2019 conservation program was also a part of Liberia\u2019s countrywide move to conserve its portion (42 percent) of the Upper Guinea Forest, one of 34 biodiversity hotspots in the world. \u201cIt was the first time for a community to scrap its forest management plan for \u201cmultiple use\u201d to accommodate mining in 10 years of the Community Rights Law. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are disappointed in the way the Ministry of Mines and Energy handled things,\u201d FDA\u2019s Managing Director C. Mike Doryen said then. \u201cWe think it has the propensity of discouraging our donors from making any more investments in the conservation area of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe communities cannot operate their community forests under the CRL by allowing mining under the forest,\u201d said Jonathan Yiah of the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI). \u201cIf this trend continues, community forest management in Liberia will be greatly undermined.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ministry of Mines and Energy refuted those criticisms, claiming that the mining law does not recognize community forests. \u201c[The communities] have their right to their land but when it comes to the issuance of mineral rights in Liberia, we don\u2019t consider them,\u201d Sartuh said at the time. \u201cThey believe that we should ask them before we issue license. We should not.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blei and Sehyi Ko-doo had come a long way with their conservation projects. They were two of the first authorized forest communities in Liberia, established in 2011. Their conservation programs were hailed across the forestry sector as they are adjacent to the East Nimba Nature Reserve. The reserve is home to endangered and endemic species such as the Nimba Toad, Nimba Flycatcher and the West African Chimpanzee. Ivory Coast and Guinea have also created conservation parks on their sides of the Nimba Range on which Blei and Delton are located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SolZol.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SolZol.jpg 720w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SolZol-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SolZol-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SolZol-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/SolZol-696x464.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption>A road in Zolowee leading to Solway\u2019s operations site. The DayLight\/William Harmon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Solway\u2019s exploration deal also stirred controversy among the company, the government of Liberia and ArcelorMittal. The London Stock Exchange-listed company\u2014accused Solway\u2014a <a href=\"https:\/\/frontpageafricaonline.com\/front-slider\/liberia-solway-mining-company-encroaching-on-arcelormittal-concession-area-linked-to-millionaire-within-putins-russia-inner-circle\/\">company owned by Estonian multimillionaire, Aleksandr Bronstein<\/a>\u2014of encroaching on its concession. \u201cSolway Mining Inc\u2026 has unlawfully entered upon and engaged in exploration activities in an area overlapping the concession area in Nimba County granted by the Government of Liberia\u2026 to AML pursuant to the mineral development agreement,\u201d ArcelorMittal, <a href=\"https:\/\/stage.thedaylight.org\/wp68\/2021\/05\/11\/extractive-revenues-declined-by-12-percent-last-year-due-to-coronavirus\/\">Liberia\u2019s biggest taxpayer,<\/a> said in a letter in June last year. Both the government and Solway denied that claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far, Solway has fulfilled a few clauses of the MoU. It has started an agricultural program for townswomen and recruited scores of local young people into its workforce. It has also paid US$20,000 as land rental fees for two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the communities say that is not enough. \u201cIf Solway is not financially capable to pay our people well, run the biodiversity programs, pay our forest guards amongst other support,\u201d they said in a letter to the FDA in January, \u201cit would be fair enough for you to say it so that we call off the MoU without delay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banner Image: Solway Mining has been exploring Mount Delton beginning 2020. The DayLight\/William Q. Harmon BY William Q. 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