COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN A MISUNDERSTOOD INDUSTRY
providing education programmes and improving schools . These are small villages of 200-500 people , not major cities or towns .
“ It ’ s about being there and being supportive of the people . There ’ s a lot of unemployment in the region so we aren ’ t going to bring in 1000 foreign people to do that work . It ’ s going to be 990 local , and 10 foreign . Over time we will work those numbers to be 100 percent Russian .”
As well as working closely with the communities to show how the mines will work for them , AMC is maintaining an ongoing dialogue with the appropriate Russian authorities and agencies , which will help to provide information for the public .
AMC looks at the impact of the project on each village , town and city individually . Young says : “ We
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