«Sime Darby s'est replié sur Rotterdam. Le projet d'une usine de transformation d'huile de palme a été abandonné sur Port-la-Nouvelle», annonce Henry Garino, le conseiller régional carcassonnais.
- La Depeche
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27 November 2012
Le collectif NOPALME vient d’apprendre l’abandon du projet de raffinerie d’huile de palme sur Port la Nouvelle.
- No Palme
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27 November 2012
The government allocated some 350.000 hectares to Sime Darby, a Malaysian multinational. But people only came to know about this deal when the company showed up to take their land.
The Liberian government has leased nearly 6 per cent of Liberia’s total land mass to palm-oil companies. More than a million people live on those lands, and 150,000 will be affected in the first five years of the plantations.
- Globe and Mail
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27 September 2012
A new report by the Liberian NGO Sustainable Development Institute presents testimonies of people affected by Sime Darby operations in western Liberia and highlights the fears of others where the company plans to expand in the coming years.
“We need to be growing at the rate of 10,000 hectares a year to be economically viable, which is not happening,” says Sime Darby official. “Securing land has been a gruelling process.”
- New Republic
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14 September 2012
Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby Bhd is waiting for final approvals from the Peruvian government to start planting oil palm on 70,000 ha in the Latin American state.
- Business Times
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07 September 2012
Indigenous peoples in Sarawak, Malaysia are facing an escalation of land grabbing in their territories by national palm oil companies, backed by foreign corporations.
La population locale avait été trompée quant à l’ampleur des destructions qui auraient lieu, et on lui avait également fait croire qu’une plantation de palmier à huile serait établie mais que les habitants garderaient leurs fermes.
En partenariat avec le site d’informations Basta !, les Amis de la Terre publient aujourd’hui un rapport d’investigation qui porte sur les agissements de la compagnie malaisienne Sime Darby au Libéria.
- AdlT/Basta !
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17 April 2012
We hear from Liberia, where foreign investment is finally starting to flood in after years of civil war. Big international companies are arriving and taking over vast areas of the country - in a move some local farmers and activists describe as a land grab.
Senator says Sime Darby’s contract was entered into by the Liberian government and as such, only the government has power to cancel it.
- FrontPageAfrica
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23 Mar 2012