G8 Underground (Gsotto)
Speaker(s)
Oscar Reyes, TNI, Oscar Reyes, TNI researcher, speaks at the 4th session
VENUE: Sulcis Iglesiente, Sardinia, Italy The overall meeting will be focused on three strategic thematic areas: - phasing out of the oil economy, keep oil in the ground - community control over mining resources and reconversion - the new frontier of natural resources exploration. >More information (PDF) www.gsotto.orgProgramme
2 July 2009
Agenda Strategy and Preparatory Meeting
9.00 Presentation of the meeting and participant’s introduction
10.00 Plenary discussion
12.00 Guided Tour of the Monteponi mine
13.30 Lunch
15.00 Working groups
18.00 Plenary
July 3rd
Programme Public Meeting
9.00 Opening and welcome by Prof. Alberto Marini, Cagliari University and Culture Minister Marina Muscas,
Iglesias Municipality
9.30 I Session: Phasing out the oil economy
co-facilitators: Nnimmo Bassey (ERA/FoE International), Antonio Tricarico (CRBM/Mani Tese)
Interviewed: Che Ibama Ibegwura (Niger Delta Community), Interviewer: Larry Lohmann (The Corner House)
Interviewed: Ivonne Yanez (Accion Ecologica), Interviewer: Tom Kucharz (Ecologistas en Accion)
Open Discussion
11.00 Coffee break
11,30 II Session: The new frontiers of natural resources explotation: tar sands, new extraction in the North
co-facilitators: Elena Gerebizza (CRBM/Mani Tese), Christian Mounzeo (RPDH, Republic of Congo)
Interviewed: Clayton Thomas-Muller (Indigenous Environmental Network, Canada), Interviewer: Penchom
Saetang (Ecological Alert and Recovery, Thailand)
Interviewed: Brice Makosso (Justice and Peace Commission, Republic of Congo), Interviewer: Andrea Baranes
(Fondazione Culturale Responsabilità Etica)
Interviewed: Representative of Irish community resisting gas projects, Interviewer: Che Ibama Ibegwura (Niger
Delta Community)
Interviewed: Maria Rita D’Orsogna (Abbruzzo movements against oil extraction), Interviewer: Caterina Amic-
ucci (CRBM/Mani Tese)
Open discussion
13,30 Lunch buffet with local and traditional organic food
15.00 III session: Under-Mining local development
Co-facilitators and interviewers: Anne-Sophie Simpere (Les Amis de la Terre), Kjetil Abildsnes (Norvegian
Church Aid)
Governance alternatives
Jean Marie Ferraris (LRC-KSK, Philippines), Basilio Tzoy Grijalva (Council for the protection of the territory
of Indigenous people, Guatemala)
Use of land
Zakir Kibria (Bangla Praxis, Bangladesh), Kyapa Kapatamoyo (Zambia)
Right-based approached
Prince Kumwamba (ACIDH), Daniel Popov (CEE Bankwatch)
Contribution from local groups from the floor.
17.15 Coffee break
17.45 IV session: Alternatives and strategies
Co-facilitators and interviewers: Nnimmo Bassey (ERA/FoE International), Antonio Tricarico (CRBM/Mani
Tese)
Representative of ANAB association of Sardinia
Oscar Reyes (Carbon Trade Watch, The Netherlands)
Nanni Salio (Centro Sereno Regis)
Salvatore Marras (Istituto Professionale Guspini)
Andri Wijaya (JATAM.SDE, Indonesia)
19,15 Conclusions of the day by co-facilitators
19,30 END
22.00 – 24.00 Projection of “La ricaduta” a reportage on Italian responsibilities in oil exploration in the Niger
Delta with the participation of Giorgio Fornoni (Report) and Maria Rita D’Orsogna on oil exploration in Abbruzzo
and with the participation of representatives of comunities and organisations from the Niger Delta.