ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the complex interplay among Chile’s twenty-first-century environmental governance reforms, transnational NGO networks, international organizations, and indigenous claims to stop a gold mining project in the high Andes of northern Chile. This research examines the government’s recent institutional governance changes and the role of activist networks to end Barrick Gold’s quest to undertake what was widely viewed as an environmentally risky venture. This discussion focuses mainly on the small-scale farmers in the valley, who, in the process of fighting the mine, successfully use the new tools of environmental democracy to stop the project. Procedural rights and institutions are important additions to the toolkit of EJ activists.
