CMOC Congo Mine Pollution Damaged Local Health, Report Says
The EIA and PremiCongo investigation centers on the Tenke Fungurume mine, which CMOC acquired in late 2016.
Photographer: Emmet Livingstone/AFP/Getty ImagesAir pollution by the world’s biggest cobalt producer appears to have damaged the health of local communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to an investigation by environmental groups.
Emissions from a processing plant run by a unit of CMOC Group Ltd. are “at the heart of the public health crisis that has allegedly harmed nearby communities and the workers who labor in the facility,” according to a report released Tuesday by the nonprofit Environmental Investigation Agency US.