BP Editors
Barrick Corporation, a Toronto-based gold-mining company, has been voted as Covalence’s 12th most unethical company in the world. Accused of torching up to 300 homes in Papua New Guinea in order to make room for their mining operation. Landowners were given no time to gather possessions and reportedly physically attacked by armed guards if they attempted to protest the impromptu and violent eviction.
Barrick Corporation is also accused of manipulating land titles in Australia and Chile, and of dumping toxic waste with high levels of arsenic in the Tanzania.
