{"id":1777,"date":"2009-12-01T00:20:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T08:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2009-12-01T00:20:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T08:20:51","slug":"barrick-gold-corporation-m4-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/2009\/12\/01\/barrick-gold-corporation-m4-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrick Gold Corporation (M4, #4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barrick Gold Corporation \u2013 Indigenous Cultures<\/p>\n<p>URL: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barrick.com\/CorporateResponsibility\/Community\/IndigenousCultures\/default.aspx\">http:\/\/www.barrick.com\/CorporateResponsibility\/Community\/IndigenousCultures\/default.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barrick Gold is a gold mining company which is dedicated to \u201cfinding, acquiring, developing and producing quality reserves in a safe, profitable and socially responsible manner\u201d.\u00a0 Barrick Gold\u2019s website has a section dedicated to its corporate responsibility.\u00a0\u00a0 In this section, amongst other topics, Barrick Gold\u2019s shares the reality of its relationship with Indigenous communities.\u00a0 The corporation focuses on the positive impact it has supposedly had on these communities, however, more usefully it offers links to outside related reports.\u00a0 Examples include: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barrick.com\/Theme\/Barrick\/files\/docs_csr\/Beyond%20Borders%20-%20October%202008.pdf#page=3\">Historic agreement reached with Western Shoshone tribes<\/a><\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barrick.com\/CorporateResponsibility\/Community\/IndigenousCultures\/CulturalPreservation\/default.aspx\">cultural preservation and cross-cultural understanding<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barrick.com\/exitpage.aspx?return=http%3a%2f%2fwww.icmm.com%2fpage%2f208%2findigenous-peoples\">ICMM\u2019s resources on engagement with Indigenous Peoples<\/a>.\u00a0 On the following page, the corporation emphasizes its role in cultural preservation.\u00a0 Additional information is provided through this link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barrick.com\/CorporateResponsibility\/CaseStudies\/CowalMine\/\"><em>Cowal Mine: A Study in Sustainable Development<\/em><\/a>, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barrick.com\/CorporateResponsibility\/CaseStudies\/donlinculturalunderstandingkeytosuccessfulnativehireprogramalaska\/\">case study on the Donlin Creek project in Alaska<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barrick.com\/Theme\/Barrick\/files\/docs_csr\/Beyond%20Borders%20-%202008%20March.pdf#page=18\"><em>Overcoming substance abuse in Alaska<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barrick Gold Corporation \u2013 Indigenous Cultures URL: http:\/\/www.barrick.com\/CorporateResponsibility\/Community\/IndigenousCultures\/default.aspx Barrick Gold is a gold mining company which is dedicated to \u201cfinding, acquiring, developing and producing quality reserves in a safe, profitable and socially responsible manner\u201d.\u00a0 Barrick Gold\u2019s website has a section dedicated to its corporate responsibility.\u00a0\u00a0 In this section, amongst other topics, Barrick Gold\u2019s shares the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}