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Nothing happened. His stunt has made him famous in the gold fields of Sumbawa, an Indonesian island miles east of Bali where makeshift mining camps dot the jungle hills.
But it also illustrated the stark choice the illegal miners here face. In order to earn a living they effectively poison themselves, their communities and the environment by using mercury, an outlawed but popular way to extract gold from ore. For decades, Mr. Syarafuddin and thousands of small-scale miners like him have worked illegally in West Sumbawa on land the government leases to large mining companies. The use of mercury in the wildcat camps results in devastating effects on health and the environment.
The heavy metal is well known as a slow-acting poison that seeps into the food chain, causing birth defects, neurological disorders and death. But because the mines are a short-term boon to the economy — employing people who might otherwise live in crushing poverty — the government is reluctant to shut them down. The competing interests of the local people, the government, environmentalists and large mining companies that control land where wildcat miners operate are now coming to a head in West Sumbawa.
This time a large mining company is taking steps, which it says are meant to protect the environment. This year, officers from a feared Police Mobile Brigade Corps, armed with assault rifles, climbed through dense jungle to shut down the mountaintop camps of dozens of outlaw miners. The miners had squatted there for years, using mercury that poisoned the soil and a nearby stream.
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The Great Lakes have served as a smuggler's freeway since Canada's infancy. In "Outlaws of the Lakes: Bootlegging and Smuggling", Canadian author Ed Butts tackles the subject of the illegal trade in booze and just about everything else banned or excessively taxed by the government. Butts has dicovered or deduced some eye-opening facts. He demonstrates that a French bootlegger was responsible for the The Great Lakes have served as a smuggler's freeway since Canada's infancy.
He demonstrates that a French bootlegger was responsible for the founding of Detroit, and points out that smugglers made a valuable contribution to the British-Canadian victory during the War of Historic triumphs aside, Butts does not whitewash or glorify the vicious reality of the smuggler's daily life.
These lake pirates killed each other, turned the legal system into a farce by bribing government officials, and created a legacy of violence and corruption that taints Canada to this day. Shelves: maritime , gangsters , historical. Fascinating look beyond the walls of the speakeasy's and into the far reaches of Canada and the vast Great Lakes region to see where the enemies of Prohibition really were.
Ed takes the reader on a historical tour back to the War of and into the popular bootlegging era's notable to most. I was intrigued by many of the stories, especially "Lake Michigan's Pirate" and thought that he covered a wide range of topics that kept me interested throughout the book. Well written with proper Fascinating look beyond the walls of the speakeasy's and into the far reaches of Canada and the vast Great Lakes region to see where the enemies of Prohibition really were. Well written with proper illustrations and photographs! This book was surprisingly good especially the first three parts.