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</div><div><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;">In Alabama, a Cleanup Unearths Toxins—and Scandal</h1></div><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2525969194" data-authors="Sierra Club" data-headline="In Alabama, a Cleanup Unearths Toxins—and Scandal" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description">By Matt SmithLot by lot, backhoes and dump trucks are scraping and hauling away yards on the north side of Birmingham to remove soil laced with heavy metals and other industrial wastes—the legacy of this city's <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/alabama-power-climate-change-2433461096.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">years as a steelmaking power</a>.Federal prosecutors say that effort also uncovered something else: a scheme to save polluters millions by putting the neighborhood's representative in Montgomery on their payroll.Former State Rep. Oliver Robinson, a five-term Democrat, pleaded guilty in September to taking $360,000 in bribes and agreed to cooperate with investigators. Three weeks later, a federal grand jury indicted a coal company executive and two lawyers accused of funneling money to Robinson so he'd fight efforts to widen the cleanup."What they did was pretty simple: It was cheaper to buy off a politician, or politicians, and coerce them into preventing any sort of liability than it would have been to clean up their mess," said Michael Hansen, executive director of the Greater Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution (<a href="https://gaspgroup.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">GASP</a>).David Roberson, a lobbyist and vice president for regulatory affairs at the Drummond Company, and attorneys Steven McKinney and Joel Gilbert, of the Southeastern powerhouse firm Balch and Bingham, have pleaded not guilty and are scheduled to go on trial in June. "All three men deny the charges, and must be presumed innocent," Drummond said in a company statement issued after the indictments.The mills that once gave Birmingham the nickname "Pittsburgh of the South" are fewer and smaller today, but several companies are still in the steel business. One of them is Drummond, which runs one of two plants that superheat <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/coal" style="text-decoration-line: none;">coal</a> in ovens to produce the high-carbon coke that fuels the furnaces.North Birmingham and sister neighborhoods Collegeville, Harriman Park and Fairmont sit between those coke plants to the east and one of the biggest remaining mills to the west. During the era of segregation, African-Americans were forced to live in these same neighborhoods. Even today, the surrounding industries release <a href="https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014-09/documents/r4_n_birm_tri_comm_snapshot-final.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">more than 1.5 million pounds</a> of toxic byproducts a year, including tens of thousands of pounds from each of the coke plants....""You can see it," said Chester Wallace, president of the North Birmingham Community Coalition, who grew up in Collegeville. "When it rains you can see where the pollutants are coming in from the various plants in the water, from the various colors in the runoff. You can see it in the discoloration of the plants. You can see the soot on houses. If you hang clothes out, you'll see it outside."Residents talk about friends and neighbors who've died of cancer or children who struggle with asthma, fearing the soot that sticks to their siding and cars is more than a nuisance. Charlie Powell, head of a neighborhood group called PANIC—People Against Neighborhood Industrial Contamination—said more studies need to be done into whether there's a link between the visible pollution and the ailments that have claimed their friends. But he added, "There's got to be a connection there in some kind of way."In 2013, the EPA declared more than 1,000 acres of the neighborhoods a Superfund site after finding the soil was laced with arsenic, <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/lead" style="text-decoration-line: none;">lead</a> and benzo(a)pyrene, a coal byproduct <a href="https://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/iris2/chemicalLanding.cfm?substance_nmbr=136" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">which causes cancer</a>. It named five companies, <a href="https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2013-09/documents/35th-ave-algnl-drummond-co-2013-09-20.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">including Drummond</a>, as potentially responsible for the pollution and cleanup costs and started to work digging up 400 yards.The EPA was asked to expand that site into another Birmingham neighborhood and the small suburb of Tarrant, where Drummond's plant is located. The agency also began weighing whether to add the north Birmingham site to the National Priorities List, which would allow regulators to clean up the site first and seek repayment from responsible parties later.That could have left those companies on the hook for tens of millions of dollars. So Drummond got to work fighting the proposal, both directly—arguing to the EPA that there was <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/347968817/ABC-Coke-Response-to-EPA" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">no evidence of pollution</a> that could be linked to the plant in the proposed expansion —and, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/federal-grand-jury-indicts-two-lawyers-and-coal-company-vp-conspiracy-bribe-legislator" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">according to prosecutors</a>, by enlisting Robinson to secretly lobby on its behalf.Roberson, Gilbert and McKinney are accused of using a consulting contract to funnel thousands of dollars a month through a nonprofit they set up to one created by Robinson, a onetime local basketball standout who played a year with the NBA's San Antonio Spurs. In exchange, prosecutors say Robinson lobbied the EPA and the state Environmental Management Commission to oppose expanding the north Birmingham site, arguing it would destroy his constituents' property values. He also voted for a state House resolution condemning "EPA's overreach." Roberson drafted the resolution, which then-Gov. Robert Bentley later signed, according to the indictment.Drummond said its lawyers "engaged the Oliver Robinson Foundation to perform community outreach in connection with the matter, and Drummond understood this process was lawful and proper."Robinson, who had resigned from the House before his indictment, won't be sentenced until after the upcoming trial. His lawyer, Richard Jaffe, told Sierra he's "proud of the truthfulness and remorse he continues to express."Wallace said he was "totally disappointed" in Robinson, while Powell said the former legislator "defrauded the whole neighborhood.""He got $300,000 or $400,000. What good does it do when he's in jail?" Powell said. "There needs to be a lesson to anybody who's playing with people's lives. I don't see how he could sleep at night about that."The case is another ethical embarrassment for a state government that's seen the heads of <a href="http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2017/04/alabama_democrats_blast_gop_ov.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">all three branches</a> removed from office for misconduct in the past two years. In additions, an earlier federal probe that examined EPA-required sewer improvements in Birmingham led to a raft of convictions and guilty pleas by bankers and politicians, including <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/aln/News/March%202010/MARCH%205,%202010%20FEDERAL%20JUDGE%20SENTENCES%20FORMER%20BIRMINGHAM%20MAYOR%20AND%20FORMER%20JEFFERSON%20COUNTY%20COMMISSION%20PRESIDENT%20TO%2015%20YEARS%20FOR%20BRIBERY%20SCHEME.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the city's ex-mayor</a>, and the eventual bankruptcy of surrounding Jefferson County.The EPA has cleaned up 320 North Birmingham lots so far, at a cost of about $25 million, according to agency spokesman James Pinkney. The work is expected to last about two more years."One of the largest challenges to completing work at this site is connecting with the owners of both occupied and vacant properties," Pinkney told Sierra via e-mail.Reposted with permission from our media associate <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/alabama-cleanup-unearths-toxins-and-scandal" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">SIERRA Magazine</a>.<div class="around-the-web" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="around-the-webheadline" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;">RELATED ARTICLES AROUND THE WEB</div><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/offshore-fracking-wells-gulf-1915520170.html" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">Hundreds of Offshore Fracking Wells Dump Billions of Gallons of Oil ... ›</a></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.epa.gov/north-birmingham-project/cleanup-process-north-birmingham-environmental-collaboration-project" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">Cleanup Process in the North Birmingham Environmental ... ›</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div>
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</div><div><div id="PrintContainer" style="margin: 5px; padding: 0px; line-height: 22.2000007629395px;"><div class="wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div id="article_container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="entry-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Drummond Company Inc. has thrown another punch in its fight against those who claim it collaborated with a paramilitary organization in the murders of Colombian civilians to protect its coal interests in that South American country.The Alabama-based coal company recently filed a lawsuit that alleges several lawyers, an advocacy group, and a Dutch competitor, are involved in a criminal campaign to extort money from Drummond.An attorney for several of those being sued denied the allegations and said it's not a surprise Drummond would "aggressively attack" the lawyers who sued the company over human rights allegations. Drummond has an ongoing defamation lawsuit against one of the defendants.Drummond's latest complaint, filed March 27 in U.S. District Court in Birmingham, claims the defendants have violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act - or RICO."Over the span of more than six years, defendants have engaged in a multifaceted criminal campaign to exert pressure upon Drummond in an attempt to damage Drummond's reputation and business interests and obtain a fraudulent and extortionate financial windfall," according to the lawsuit.An attorney for Drummond, William Anthony Davis III, declined comment on the lawsuit. "We do not comment on pending litigation," he said.Drummond claims in its lawsuit that "advocacy" groups were used to spread the false message that Drummond collaborated with the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC), to eliminate suspected guerilla groups from around the company's mining operations in Colombia and in the process innocent people were killed. Media campaigns in the U.S., Colombia and Europe, also were aimed at damaging its relations with unions, Drummond contends.The company also alleges three "fraudulent lawsuits" were filed - in Birmingham - in which terrorists and murderers imprisoned in Colombia were bribed to make false allegations as witnesses.[// chevron?]"It is now known that the defendants paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to these criminals, among other illegal inducements, in order to procure this 'testimony'," Drummond states in its lawsuit.Drummond details the alleged payments and the way the money transfers were made through law firms or advocacy group to witnesses or their families in an 85-page chart attached to the lawsuit.Drummond's lawsuit names as one defendant Terrence P. Collingsworth, a partner in the Florida -based law firm of Conrad & Scherer, who has been a lawyer in the three lawsuits against Drummond. One of those lawsuits claims the company funded the AUC, which then allegedly executed hundreds of people living in and around Drummond's railroad corridor.Collingsworth also serves as executive director of the group International Rights Advocates (IRAdvocates) and serves as an agent for Albert van Bilderbeek, one of the owners of the Dutch company Llanos Oil described as a competitor that lost oil and gas rights to Drummond in Colombia.William R. Scherer, IRAdvocates, and Bilderbeek also are named as defendants in the lawsuit.Colombian attorneys Francisco Ramirez Cuellar and Ivan Alfredo Otero Mendoza are also named as defendants.Ramirez is described in the lawsuit as a criminal defense lawyer, activist, and former president of a mineworkers' union who allegedly has tried to damage Drummond's relations with the Colombian unions. The lawsuit claims he also paid witnesses for testimony in lawsuits against Drummond. He also has contracted with Collingsworth and Conrad & Scherer for contingency fees in three lawsuits filed in Birmingham against Drummond, the lawsuit states.Otero is a Colombian criminal defense lawyer "who has represented nearly all of the incarcerated witnesses that claim Drummond had ties to the AUC," Drummond's lawsuit states. Otero also has contracted with Conrad & Scherer to get contingency fees for three lawsuits.LAWSUITSDrummond has been sued at least four times in federal court in Alabama over allegations that it had a hand in murders in Colombia. The company have maintained those allegations are not true.Colombian plaintiffs have had two wrongful death lawsuits against Drummond dismissed by a federal court judge in Birmingham. Both rulings have been affirmed by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.The latest ruling by the 11th Circuit, in the case known as Balcero brought in 2009 by relatives of more than 100 Colombian citizens killed by the AUC, came on March 25.The other 11th Circuit ruling, in September,  affirmed U.S. District Court Judge David Proctor's dismissal of another  2009 lawsuit claiming Drummond Co. conspired with a paramilitary group to murder three union officials at the company's coal operation in Colombia, South America.  The wives or companions of the three union officials who worked for a Drummond Ltd. mining operation in Colombia, had first filed a lawsuit in 2002 against Drummond for the men's 2001 deaths. The lawsuit claimed Drummond hired paramilitary gunmen to torture, kidnap and murder them.Drummond denied the claims and in 2007 a jury found in favor of Drummond. But in 2009, children of the three men filed another similar lawsuit on behalf of themselves against Drummond. A former Drummond contractor in January 2013 was convicted of murder in the deaths of two of the men in 2001 and sentenced to nearly 38 years in prison as the mastermind in the deaths.The trial judge in Colombia also ordered an investigation into Drummond's president,  Garry Drummond, and three former employees to determine whether they might also be responsible, the Associated Press reported.Drummond has denied any role in the murders and no employee has faced any criminal charges.The convicted man, Jaime Blanco, alleged that senior Drummond managers had ordered the killings. Blanco's former assistant, Jairo Charris, was also convicted of the same murders in 2009 and was sentenced to 30 years.Both Blanco and Charris are among the lawsuit witnesses against Drummond whose families were paid, Drummond claims in its lawsuit.According to court records Collingsworth was an attorney on the 2002 lawsuit and the two lawsuits rejected by the 11th Circuit in the past year.He also is one of the attorneys in another lawsuit filed against Drummond in 2013 that is still pending before Judge Proctor. That lawsuit filed in 2013 is currently stayed as the court awaits decisions by appellate courts on other cases that have issues similar to ones presented in the 2013 lawsuit.BRIBES OR SECURITY?Drummond filed a defamation lawsuit against Collingsworth as agent for Conrad & Scherer in 2011.It was during litigation of that lawsuit last year that payments to witnesses first arose.Drummond states in the lawsuit that while reviewing documents in their defamation case it became clear that Collingsworth had lied in court about the number of witnesses who were paid.Drummond has asked for Collingsworth to be held in contempt of court and his firm sanctioned in the defamation lawsuit.Attorneys for Collingsworth say the payments were made to witnesses and their family to keep them safe."Drummond suggests that payments for protection of witnesses in Colombia are highly improper--when there is no evidence that the payments impact any testimony, the threats to Colombian witnesses are so commonplace that the only way to protect the truth is to protect the witness, and there is law that witness payments for this purposes are legal and ethical," according to the response from Collingsworth's attorneys.Collingsworth's attorneys stated that it is "unfortunate" that some of Collingsworth's statements were inaccurate regarding the number of witnesses being paid. Those incorrect statements have been corrected in subsequent filings and documents, the attorneys stated."Even though the statements were wrong, Mr. Collingsworth's error is irrelevant to the truth or falsity of the statements Drummond claims are defamatory," Collingsworth's attorneys state. "Drummond either did, or did not, engage in Colombian human rights abuses."Efforts to reach Collingsworth, Conrad & Scherer, IRAdvocates, Otero and Ramirez were unsuccessful prior to the publication of this story.But Birmingham attorney Robert Spotswood, who serves as one of the attorneys for Conrad & Scherer and Collingsworth in the defamation case, issued a response to the latest lawsuit by Drummond.   "Conrad & Scherer, LLP is a law firm which has maintained a strong reputation for 40 years. Its attorneys have represented both plaintiffs and defendants in important complex litigation within and outside of Florida," Spotswood stated. In addition to its home office in Florida, the firm has offices in Washington, DC, North Carolina, and Ecuador, Spotswood stated.  "On the plaintiff side, Conrad & Scherer, LLP is now representing a number of clients in lawsuits alleging human rights violations by certain American corporations in South America.  Some of those cases are against Drummond Company, Inc. relating to its alleged conduct in Colombia," Spotswood stated.  "It is not a surprise to Conrad & Scherer, LLP that a company sued for human rights violations would aggressively attack the lawyers who filed the complaints against it," Spotswood wrote. "Drummond's latest lawsuit is another of its thus-far-unsuccessful legal maneuvers against these lawyers. The latest suit even names a veteran law professor from a Colombian law school.""Drummond's latest lawsuit focuses on payments which these lawyers contend were used to provide protection for witnesses or their families, including relocation assistance," Spotswood states. "One top U.S. government enforcement expert has stated that witnesses are not likely to tell the truth in life-threatening situations in Colombia unless they feel safe.""Conrad & Scherer, LLP and Terry Collingsworth look forward to the opportunity to defend these claims in federal court where they expect and hope the truth will be revealed," Spotswood writes.OTHER COMPANIESDrummond in its RICO lawsuit addresses some of the lawsuits the attorneys and IRAdvocates have filed against other multinational corporations premised on similar allegations that those companies also collaborated with Colombian paramilitaries.Dole Food Company, Inc., Occidental Petroleum Corporation, and Chiquita Brands International, are among the companies IRAdvocates states on its website that it has sued, according to the Drummond lawsuit. "Evidence discovered to date suggests that the Enterprise's (the defendant's) fraudulent practices and witness payment schemes permeate all of their cases in Colombia," Drummond claims in its lawsuit.</div></div></div></div></div><div>=
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</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 22.4px;">Drummond Ltd. describes itself as "principally engaged in the business of mining, purchasing, processing and selling of coal and coal derivatives."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-Drummond-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>On its website it states that it "controls reserves totaling over 2 billion tons and shipped over 24 million tons of coal in 2006. Drummond primarily produces low sulfur or compliance coal, meeting Phase II requirements of the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act." The company's current mining operations are in Alabama in the United States and its <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/La_Loma_mine" title="La Loma mine" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">La Loma mine</a> in Cesar Department in <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Colombia" title="Colombia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Colombia</a>, serving customers in both the U.S. and Europe.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-Drummond-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>A November 2007 presentation to investment analysts by the President of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/BHP_Billiton" title="BHP Billiton" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">BHP Billiton</a> Coal, Dave Murray, noted that Drummond had an 5% share of the global coal export trade, making it the equal fifth largest coal exporter in the world. (Drummond is equal with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shenhua" title="Shenhua" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Shenhua</a>).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#Company_History" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 Company History</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#Colombian_Coal" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Colombian Coal</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#Conflict_in_Colombia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.1 Conflict in Colombia</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#WikiLeaks_cables_regarding_paramilitary_forces" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.2 WikiLeaks cables regarding paramilitary forces</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#Coverup_of_coal_barge_sinking" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.3 Coverup of coal barge sinking</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#Alabama_coal" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Alabama coal</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#Alabama_Coal_port_expansion" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.1 Alabama Coal port expansion</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#Political_and_Public_Influence" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Political and Public Influence</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#Coal_Execs_Invite_Presidential_Hopeful_Jeb_Bush_to_Closed-Door_Weekend_Retreat.282015.29" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.1 Coal Execs Invite Presidential Hopeful Jeb Bush to Closed-Door Weekend Retreat (2015)</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#Political_Contributions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.2 Political Contributions</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#Lobbying" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.3 Lobbying</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#Corporate_Accountability" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5 Corporate Accountability</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#Labor" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5.1 Labor</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#Human_Rights" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5.2 Human Rights</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#Protests_against_Drummond" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6 Protests against Drummond</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#July_2007:Protesters_demand_justice_for_murdered_workers" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6.1 July 2007: Protesters demand justice for murdered workers</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#Contact_Information" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7 Contact Information</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#Articles_and_Resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8 Articles and Resources</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#Sources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8.1 Sources</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8.2 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#External_Articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8.3 External Articles</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Company History</h2>The company was founded in 1935, with the vision of H.E. Drummond, an entrepreneur who entered into coal business in Alabama. Upon his death in 1956, his sons built upon their father’s vision for the company. By the early 1970s, Drummond entered into the export coal market and quickly became an industry leader. In the late 1980s, Drummond expanded offshore and secured extensive mining rights in Colombia because of the significant low-cost, low-sulfur coal market opportunities.Production began in 1995 at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/La_Loma_mine" title="La Loma mine" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">La Loma mine</a>; in 1997 Drummond acquired <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/El_Descanso_mine" title="El Descanso mine" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">El Descanso mine</a>; and in 2003 acquired Rincon Hondo and Similoa reserves. These reserves have made Drummond one of the two largest miners of Colombian Coal. Drummond is now a major long term competitor in the international coal market, with over 2 billion tons of reserves that are strategically positioned relative to key power generation markets in the U.S. and Europe.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Colombian Coal</h2>Drummond produced 22 million tonnes from its La Loma mine in Cesar Department in northern Colombia.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-Torres-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a> On its website the company states that it bought the La Loma mine in the late 1980's and that "development commenced in the early 1990’s." The thermal coal produced from the mine is marketed in 13 countries under the trade name Aire Amigo which the company states is "very low in NOx [nitrogen oxides]] emissions, which is highly desirable to utility plants required to lower these emissions."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-Drummond-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: transparent;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 3px; text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 302px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;">(Left to right) Colombia President Alvaro Uribe, Drummond President Garry Neil Drummond, and Drummond Ltd. President Augusto Jimenez.</div></div></div>On its website the company states that its mining operations "includes Mina Pribbenow, an open-pit coal mine located in the Cesar Coal Basin near La Loma,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Puerto_Drummond" title="Puerto Drummond" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Puerto Drummond</a>, a deep-water ocean port on the Caribbean Sea near Santa Marta, and coal transportation and handling facilities. Drummond Ltd. transports the coal from the mine 120 miles by railcar on the renovated portion of the Colombian National Railroad System and National Highway directly to Puerto Drummond, the deep-water ocean port."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-Drummond-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>The company states that company exports from Colombia have grown from "1 million tons in 1995 to 22.9 million tons in 2007."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-Drummond-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> In 2000, coal extraction rose by 4 million tons at la Loma mine after Drummond built a huge dragline at the mine site.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-dbacon-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">Conflict in Colombia</h3>The Drummond Company has been the subject of numerous lawsuits regarding the murders of 70 union miners and railroad workers, collectively.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[5]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-flaumcd-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[6]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[7]</a> The murdered Colombians were killed by the notorious paramilitary group, United Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), which had been hired by Drummond to act as security.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-flaumcd-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[6]</a> In addition to those killed, a lawsuit against Drummond describes "how hundreds of men, women, and children were terrorized in their homes, on their way to and from work… innocent people killed in or near their homes or kidnapped to never to return home, their spouses and children being beaten and tied up, and people being pulled off buses and summarily executed on the spot."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-flaumcd-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[6]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">WikiLeaks cables regarding paramilitary forces</h3>According to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://213.251.145.96/reldate/2011-03-16_0.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz48c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwIj48ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtODI2LjQyOSAtNjk4Ljc5MSkiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSI1Ljk4MiIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1Ljk4MiIgeD0iODI2LjkyOSIgeT0iNzAyLjMwOSIgZmlsbD0iI2ZmZiIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMDZjIi8+PGc+PHBhdGggZD0iTTgzMS4xOTQgNjk4Ljc5MWg1LjIzNHY1LjM5MWwtMS41NzEgMS41NDUtMS4zMS0xLjMxLTIuNzI1IDIuNzI1LTIuNjg5LTIuNjg5IDIuODA4LTIuODA4LTEuMzExLTEuMzExeiIgZmlsbD0iIzA2ZiIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik04MzUuNDI0IDY5OS43OTVsLjAyMiA0Ljg4NS0xLjgxNy0xLjgxNy0yLjg4MSAyLjg4MS0xLjIyOC0xLjIyOCAyLjg4MS0yLjg4MS0xLjg1MS0xLjg1MXoiIGZpbGw9IiNmZmYiLz48L2c+PC9nPjwvc3ZnPg"); background-position: 100% 50%, 100% 50%;">U.S. diplomatic cables</a> sent between 2006-2010 and released by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/WikiLeaks" title="WikiLeaks" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">WikiLeaks</a>, Drummond paid paramilitaries for protection of its Colombian operations. An <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://213.251.145.96/cable/2006/10/06BOGOTA9120.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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"); background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%, 100% 50%;">October 2006 cable</a> said there were significant security improvements in the northeastern region of Colombia where Drummond operates due to private security operations in the area, including roving patrols along the company's railroad from their <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/La_Loma_mine" title="La Loma mine" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">La Loma mine</a> to the port in Santa Marta. The cable went on to say that these private security guards were former paramilitaries. Over the course of four years U.S. Embassy officials sent 15 diplomatic cables to Washington which expressed concern over the company's labor disputes, lax environmental practices and apparent links with paramilitary death squads.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-ha-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[8]</a>A federal Court in Alabama began a civil case against Drummond in 2010 for the alleged paramilitary links, in a case that is still underway. Victims of paramilitary violence in Colombia accuse Drummond of paying the paramilitary organization United Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) between 1999 and 2005, during which time 116 civilians were murdered in the region where the coal company operates, allegedly by the right-wing militia. The civil case also seeks compensation for the relatives of several people who were murdered, which they claim was for refusing to sell their land to to make way for the company's railroad.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-ha-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[8]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">Coverup of coal barge sinking</h3>The crew of a barge owned by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond_Company" title="Drummond Company" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Drummond Company</a> dumped 2,000 tonnes of coal into the ocean in an unsuccessful bid to avoid the barge sinking. Drummond did not report the sinking to Colombian environmental authorities until 17 days after the accident, even though its environmental licence required the company to report such an event within a maximum of three days. Director of the Colombian Environmental Licensing Agency (ANLA), Luz Helena Sarmiento, accused Drummond of covering the accident up. Drummond claimed the coal was dumped overboard to save lives but Sarmiento said that the company's licence did not allow it to dump into the ocean to save the barge.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a> In 2011 Drummond exported approximately 25 million tons of coal from its mines near La Loma through <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Puerto_Drummond" title="Puerto Drummond" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Puerto Drummond</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Alabama coal</h2>Between 1994 and 2001, Drummond closed down five mines in Alabama, laying off 1,700 union miners.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-dbacon-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[4]</a> As of 2001, Drummond operated only one coal mine in Alabama, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shoal_Creek_Mine" title="Shoal Creek Mine" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Shoal Creek Mine</a>, which employed about 500 people.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-dbacon-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[4]</a>In Spring 2009, Drummond Coal laid off 56 miners from the company's Shoal Creek underground mine in Jefferson County.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-nerv-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a> The mine started operating on a four-day work week.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-nerv-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">Alabama Coal port expansion</h3>The Alabama State Port Authority has announced $360M to be spent over five years to improve infrastructure at the Port of Mobile,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-pr10.2F10-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a> and hopes that two customers - <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond_Company" title="Drummond Company" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Drummond Company</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Walter_Energy" title="Walter Energy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Walter Energy</a> - will pay for a proposed $9.5 million project to add export capacity at the Alabama <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/McDuffie_Coal_Terminal" title="McDuffie Coal Terminal" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">McDuffie Coal Terminal</a>. On Feb. 22, 2011, authority members voted to give state docks Director Jimmy Lyons the power to contract for a second shiploader at the terminal if he can reach an agreement with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond_Company" title="Drummond Company" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Drummond Company</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Walter_Energy" title="Walter Energy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Walter Energy</a> to pay for it by accepting a surcharge on top of the fees they normally pay to export coal through the terminal. The amount of metallurgical coal shipped from the Port of Mobile is rising due to increased demand from overseas steelmakers and widespread flooding in Australia in 2010, which shut down several coal mines there.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-dm-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a>Demand for export coal is increasing so much that Birmingham-based Walter had recently purchased the Mobile River Terminal for $35 million to increase its shipping capacity. Company officials said that they still planned to use McDuffie as well. McDuffie has two shiploaders, but one of them is broken. Lyons said McDuffie currently has capacity to export between 10 million tons and 12 million tons of coal a year. A new shiploader, to be built by Shanghai-based <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ZPMC&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ZPMC (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ZPMC</a>, would expand capacity by about 50 percent. If Drummond and Walter do not agree to a surcharge to fund the improvements, the facility will reportedly continue to operate with one shiploader.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-dm-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Political and Public Influence</h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Coal Execs Invite Presidential Hopeful Jeb Bush to Closed-Door Weekend Retreat (2015)</h3>Drummond and other coal companies invited former Florida Governor and likely presidential candidate <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeb_Bush" title="Jeb Bush" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jeb Bush</a> to be the keynote speaker at the 2015 Coal and Investment Leadership Forum, an invitation-only retreat that brings together coal industry executives, Republican donors, and other "stakeholders," according to an invitation obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy and reported on by The Guardian. Bush "evidently signalled his willingness to meet with industry leaders as early as February when the hosts of the coal forum – all owners and executives of coalmining companies – emailed out the first save-the-date notices," The Guardian reported.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-goldenberg_coal_forum-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">“It is a great opportunity to meet with stakeholders in the state,” Kristy Campbell, a spokeswoman for Bush, said. “He will be talking about a variety of topics.”<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-goldenberg_coal_forum-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a></dd></dl>Bush had not yet officially declared his candidacy and was not disclosing fundraising information. "I think the major question is what promises is Jeb Bush making to the coal chief executives in that room. We assume Bush is there to raise money for his campaign [...] it is pretty clear why Jeb Bush was invited there. If Jeb Bush is elected they want him to protect their industry," Nick Surgey, research director of CMD, told The Guardian.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-goldenberg_coal_forum-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a>Others named in the 2015 invitation included <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tennessee_Valley_Authority" title="Tennessee Valley Authority" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Tennessee Valley Authority</a> president Bill Johns, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Christopher_C.Horner" title="Christopher C. Horner" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Christopher C. Horner</a> of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute" title="Competitive Enterprise Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Energy%26_Environment_Legal_Institute" title="Energy & Environment Legal Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Energy & Environment Legal Institute</a>, and "the owners and chief executives of coalmining and energy companies" including <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alliance_Resource_Partners" title="Alliance Resource Partners" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Alliance Resource Partners</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alpha_Natural_Resources" title="Alpha Natural Resources" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Alpha Natural Resources</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Consol_Energy" title="Consol Energy" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Consol Energy</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arch_Coal" title="Arch Coal" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Arch Coal</a>, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_Coal_Company" title="United Coal Company" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">United Coal Company</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-goldenberg_coal_forum-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[14]</a>According to The Guardian,<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">The invitations to the three-day forum promise access to influential figures – including a potential future occupant of the White House – in a relaxed setting, with time for cocktails, golf lessons, and fishing. The $7,500 fee does not include lodging.</dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"Once again, significant time will also be available for golf, fly fishing, one-on-one meetings and small VIP discussion groups, which is the hallmark of this conference," the invitation reads.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-goldenberg_coal_forum-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a></dd></dl>The forum was likely to touch on rules limiting carbon pollution from power plants that were announced by the EPA in 2014. Jim McGlothlin, CEO of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_Coal_Company" title="United Coal Company" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United Coal Company</a>, "said the executives were eager to hear what Bush said about energy – but the hour-long encounter would not be restricted to the EPA rules. 'It would be our hope that he would touch upon his general energy policies,' McGlothlin said in an email." McGlothlin also noted that the forum planned to invite additional presidential candidates in 2016.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-goldenberg_coal_forum-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">Political Contributions</h3>In June 2000, Drummond gave $500,000 to the Republican National Committee.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-dbacon-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[4]</a> The company also gave $25,000 to the National Republican Congressional Campaign that year.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-dbacon-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[4]</a> In October 2000, Drummond gave $20,000 to the National Republican Senate Campaign.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-dbacon-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[4]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">Lobbying</h3><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Corporate Accountability</h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">Labor</h3><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">Human Rights</h3>Estate of Valmore Lacarno Rodriguez v. Drummond Company
This is the first case to reach trial that cites the Alien Tort Claims Act, a U.S. law created as a part of the Judiciary Act of 1789 that allows foreigners to sue American companies for their conduct abroad.
In 2002, the families of three deceased Colombian labor leaders and the union they belonged to, Sintramienergética, filed suit against Drummond Company, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary Drummond Ltd. in U.S. federal court. The plaintiffs alleged that Drummond hired Colombian paramilitaries to kill and torture the three labor leaders in 2001. Sintramienergética represents workers at Drummond’s coal mining operations in Colombia. The case was brought under the U.S. Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA), U.S. Torture Victim Protection Act and Alabama state law.
Drummond sought dismissal of the case. In 2003, the court granted dismissal on the state law claims and one of the ATCA claims. The court declined to dismiss the ATCA claims of extrajudicial killing and the denial of rights to associate and to organize. In March 2007, the court ruled that the case against Drummond Ltd. would go to trial but dismissed the case against the parent company of Drummond Company. In June 2007, the district court judge dismissed the wrongful death claims but allowed the war crime allegations under the ATCA. The trial began in July 2007, and after trial, the 10 person jury acquitted Drummond finding that the company was not liable for the deaths of the three murdered labor leaders. On December 11, 2007, the plaintiffs filed to appeal the lower court’s verdict with U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. In December 2008, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia upheld the verdict.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a>
In March 2009, the families of the three murdered men filed another suit against Drummond.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a> This time, a key witness who had been in prison during the trial has been released and is able to testify against Drummond.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[19]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[21]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[22]</a>Drummond charged in the murders of 67 Colombians
In May 2009, law firms Conrad & Scherer LLP (of Florida) and Ivey Law Firm (of Jasper, Alabama) filed a federal lawsuit against Drummond for the company's involvement in the murders of sixty-seven Colombians.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-flaumcd-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> Drummond paid millions of dollars to the paramilitary terrorist group United Self Defense Forces of Colombia (the AUC) to protect the company's property and U.S. workers, and according to the lawsuit, "allowed the AUC terrorists to set up a military base of operations on its property, and supplied electric, food and fuel."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-flaumcd-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> The sixty-page lawsuit documents many allegations of violence against people who were perceived as sympathetic to leftist guerilla groups and supportive of local union organizations, including "how hundreds of men, women, and children were terrorized in their homes, on their way to and from work… innocent people killed in or near their homes or kidnapped to never to return home, their spouses and children being beaten and tied up, and people being pulled off buses and summarily executed on the spot."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-flaumcd-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> The lawsuit also describes a meeting between Drummond and the AUC in November 2000 where the company ordered the execution of two union leaders.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-flaumcd-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a>The law firms represent 252 plaintiffs, who are relatives of the sixty-three men and four women that were murdered.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-flaumcd-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> Their names were withheld from the lawsuit in order to prevent repercussions.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-flaumcd-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a>The lawsuit was filed in the in US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama Western Division asks for a trial by jury.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-flaumcd-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> Defendants named include Drummond Company, Inc., Augusto Jimenez (President of Drummond Ltd. in Colombia), Alfredo Araujo (Drummond's Director of Community Relations in Colombia), and James Atkins (Drummond Chief of Security in Colombia).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-flaumcd-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> The charges include wrongful death and violations of the U.S. Alien Tort Act and Torture Victim Protection Act.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-flaumcd-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a>In a ruling hailed as a victory for the families of the murdered men, on February 3, 2011, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia found that the children of three of the murdered men have standing to bring their suit in court.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[23]</a>In a similar situation, in 2007 Chiquita Brands International pled guilty of making substantial payments to the AUC from 1997-2004.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-flaumcd-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> Chiquita was forced to stop after a board member reported the illegal payments to the U.S. Justice Department.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-flaumcd-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Protests against Drummond</h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">July 2007: Protesters demand justice for murdered workers</h3>Protesters with Students for a Democratic Society from Tuscaloosa and Birmingham marched to the Federal Courthouse demanding justice for three Colombian trade unionists murdered in 2001 and 2002.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_note-toweill-24" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[24]</a> At the time, Drummond was being charged with arranging the murders and was later acquitted.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contact Information</h2>Drummond Co., Inc.
P.O. Box 10246
Birmingham, Alabama 35202
Tel: (205) 945-6300 Website: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.drummondco.com/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">http://www.drummondco.com/</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Articles and Resources</h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">Sources</h3><div class="references-small" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-Drummond-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-Drummond_1-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:1.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-Drummond_1-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.1</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-Drummond_1-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.2</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-Drummond_1-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.3</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-Drummond_1-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.4</a> Drummond, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.drummondco.com/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">Drummond</a>, Drummond website, accessed June 2008.</li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Dave Murray, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bhpbilliton.com/bbContentRepository/ecAnalystPresentation2007.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 16px; background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif") 100% 50% no-repeat;">"BHP Billiton Coal CSG Anlayst Visit: Hunter Valley Energy Coal"</a>, BHP Billiton, November 2nd, 2007.</li><li id="cite_note-Torres-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-Torres_3-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Ivette E. Torres, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/2005/myb3-2005-co.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 16px; background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif") 100% 50% no-repeat;">"The Mineral Industry of Colombia"</a>, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, December 2007.</li><li id="cite_note-dbacon-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-dbacon_4-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:4.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-dbacon_4-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.1</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-dbacon_4-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.2</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-dbacon_4-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.3</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-dbacon_4-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.4</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-dbacon_4-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4.5</a> David Bacon, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/17/bacon2517.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">"The Colombian Connection",</a> "In These Times", July 23, 2001.</li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> International Rights Advocates, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iradvocates.org/Drummond_Pls%20Opening%20Brief.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 16px; background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif") 100% 50% no-repeat;">"Juan Aquas Romero, et al. v. Drummond Company Inc., et al."</a>, Plaintiff's Opening Brief, December 11, 2007.</li><li id="cite_note-flaumcd-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-flaumcd_6-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:6.00</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-flaumcd_6-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6.01</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-flaumcd_6-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6.02</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-flaumcd_6-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6.03</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-flaumcd_6-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6.04</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-flaumcd_6-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6.05</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-flaumcd_6-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6.06</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-flaumcd_6-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6.07</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-flaumcd_6-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6.08</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-flaumcd_6-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6.09</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-flaumcd_6-10" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6.10</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-flaumcd_6-11" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6.11</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-flaumcd_6-12" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6.12</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-flaumcd_6-13" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6.13</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS192843+28-May-2009+PRN20090528" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">"Federal lawsuit alleges U.S. mining company Drummond paid millions to Colombian paramilitary terrorists who killed 67; including "execution" of union leaders",</a>"Reuters", May 28, 2009.</li><li id="cite_note-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blog.al.com/businessnews/2009/03/the_children_of_three_coal.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">"Children of slain Colombian coal miners sue Drummond Co. in Birmingham federal court",</a> "Birmingham News", March 20, 2009.</li><li id="cite_note-ha-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-ha_8-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:8.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-ha_8-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8.1</a> Hannah Aronowitz, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/14935-us-coal-firm-drummond-paid-paramilitaries-wikileaks.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz48c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwIj48ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtODI2LjQyOSAtNjk4Ljc5MSkiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSI1Ljk4MiIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1Ljk4MiIgeD0iODI2LjkyOSIgeT0iNzAyLjMwOSIgZmlsbD0iI2ZmZiIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMDZjIi8+PGc+PHBhdGggZD0iTTgzMS4xOTQgNjk4Ljc5MWg1LjIzNHY1LjM5MWwtMS41NzEgMS41NDUtMS4zMS0xLjMxLTIuNzI1IDIuNzI1LTIuNjg5LTIuNjg5IDIuODA4LTIuODA4LTEuMzExLTEuMzExeiIgZmlsbD0iIzA2ZiIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik04MzUuNDI0IDY5OS43OTVsLjAyMiA0Ljg4NS0xLjgxNy0xLjgxNy0yLjg4MSAyLjg4MS0xLjIyOC0xLjIyOCAyLjg4MS0yLjg4MS0xLjg1MS0xLjg1MXoiIGZpbGw9IiNmZmYiLz48L2c+PC9nPjwvc3ZnPg") 100% 50%;">"Drummond paid Colombian paramilitaries: WikiLeaks"</a> Colombia Reports, March 16, 2011.</li><li id="cite_note-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Benjy Hansen-Bundy, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/27971-caribbean-coal-spill-coverup-investigated.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">"Caribbean coal spill coverup investigated"</a>, Colombia Reports, February 1, 2013.</li><li id="cite_note-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-10" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Drummond Company, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.drummondco.com/our-products/coal/mines" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">"Mines:Colombia"</a>, Drummond Company website, accessed February 2013.</li><li id="cite_note-nerv-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-nerv_11-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:11.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-nerv_11-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">11.1</a> Patrick Rupinski, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20090517/NEWS/905169992/1001?Title=Alabama-miners-nervous-about-the-future-of-coal" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">"Alabama miners nervous about the future of coal",</a> "Tuscaloosa News", May 17, 2009.</li><li id="cite_note-pr10.2F10-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-pr10.2F10_12-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Dave Helms (2010-10-27). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blog.al.com/live/2010/10/port_authority_oks_infrastruct.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">Alabama State Port Authority approves $360 million to upgrade infrastructure</a>. Press Register. Retrieved on 2010-10-27.</li><li id="cite_note-dm-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-dm_13-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:13.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-dm_13-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">13.1</a> Dan Murtaugh, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blog.al.com/press-register-business/2011/02/port_authority_wants_to_pass.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">"Port Authority wants to pass along costs of coal terminal upgrade"</a> al.com, February 23, 2011.</li><li id="cite_note-goldenberg_coal_forum-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-goldenberg_coal_forum_14-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:14.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-goldenberg_coal_forum_14-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">14.1</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-goldenberg_coal_forum_14-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">14.2</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-goldenberg_coal_forum_14-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">14.3</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-goldenberg_coal_forum_14-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">14.4</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-goldenberg_coal_forum_14-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">14.5</a> Suzanne Goldenberg, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/29/jeb-bush-closed-door-meeting-coal-industry-barons" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">Jeb Bush cozies up to coal industry barons at closed-door meeting</a>," The Guardian, May 29, 2015.</li><li id="cite_note-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-15" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2008/12/georgia_court_upholds_verdict.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">"Georgia court upholds verdict clearing Drummond in Colombian killings",</a> "Birmingham News", December 28, 2009.</li><li id="cite_note-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-16" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blog.al.com/businessnews/2009/03/the_children_of_three_coal.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">"Children of slain Colombian coal miners sue Drummond Co. in Birmingham federal court",</a> "Birmingham News", March 20, 2009.</li><li id="cite_note-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-17" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> International Rights Advocates, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iradvocates.org/Drummond_Pls%20Opening%20Brief.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 16px; background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif") 100% 50% no-repeat;">"Juan Aquas Romero, et al. v. Drummond Company Inc., et al."</a>, Plaintiff's Opening Brief, December 11, 2007.</li><li id="cite_note-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-18" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Kyle Whitmore, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/27/business/27drummond.html?ex=1343275200&en=b0dc4c8b43c02282&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">"Alabama Company Is Exonerated in Murders at Colombian Mine"</a>, New York Times, July 27, 2007.</li><li id="cite_note-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-19" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Drummon Ltd. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.drummondco.com/news/pdf/news_03212007.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 16px; background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif") 100% 50% no-repeat;">"Drummond does not negotiate with illegal groups; the Company emphatically rejects all charges against the company and its executives"</a>, Press Release, March 21, 2007.</li><li id="cite_note-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-20" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Hugh Bronstein, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N16333983.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">"Drummond case shows danger facing Colombian unions”</a>, Reuters, November 16, 2006.</li><li id="cite_note-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-21" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Andrew Gumbel, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20020325/ai_n12597439" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">"US firm sued after mine union leaders' deaths"</a>, Independent [UK], March 25, 2002.</li><li id="cite_note-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-22" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Drummond Ltd. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.drummondco.com/operations/coal/Colombia.aspx" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">"Drummond's Colombian Operations"</a></li><li id="cite_note-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-23" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit [<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/200916216.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 16px; background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif") 100% 50% no-repeat;">http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/200916216.pdf</a> Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, D. C. Docket No. 09-00557-CV-RDP], February 3, 2011</li><li id="cite_note-toweill-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Drummond#cite_ref-toweill_24-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> Jim Toweill, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fightbacknews.org/2007/07/drummond.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">Birmingham protest: "Who is a terrorist? Drummond is a terrorist!",</a> Fight Back! 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padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">“US firm sued after mine union leaders' deaths”</a>, The Independent [London], March 25, 2002.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.drummondco.com/news/pdf/news_03212007.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 16px; background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif") 100% 50% no-repeat;">"Drummond does not negotiate with illegal groups; the Company emphatically rejects all charges against the company and its executives"</a>, Drummond Ltd. Press Release, March 21, 2007.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">International Rights Advocates,<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iradvocates.org/drummondcase.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">"Juan Aquas Romero, et al. v. Drummond Company Inc., et al."</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iradvocates.org/Drummond_Pls%20Opening%20Brief.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 16px; background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif") 100% 50% no-repeat;">"Romero, et al. v. Drummond, et al. - Appellants' Opening Brief"</a>, December 11, 2007.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/200613058.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 16px; background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif") 100% 50% no-repeat;">"Juan Aquas Romero v. 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uly 16 (Bloomberg) -- Gustavo Soler knew he was in trouble. It was 2001, and Soler was union president at a coal mine in Colombia owned by Drummond Co., which is controlled by the wealthiest family in Alabama.Soler’s predecessor, Valmore Locarno, and Locarno’s deputy, Victor Orcasita, had been killed seven months earlier, and now Soler was getting threats, says his widow, Nubia, in an interview in Bogota. He told his family to pack up. They would leave the area as soon as he got home from the union office in Valledupar, a city in the country’s coal belt. He never made it.Armed men stopped his bus, asked for him by name and abducted him. He was found under a pile of banana leaves with two bullet holes in his head, Bloomberg Markets magazine will report in its August issue.<div data-view-uid="1|0_5_1_5" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 29.124px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After the killing, Nubia says, Garry Neil Drummond, chief executive officer of Drummond Co., sent a taxi to bring her to the Drummond offices near the coastal town of Santa Marta, where, in a meeting, he promised to put her children, Sergio and Karina, then 14 and 9, through school.Nubia describes a tender moment for a tough man. Drummond, now 75, started working in his family’s coal mines around Jasper, Alabama, at 15. As an executive in 1969, he negotiated an export deal with a Japanese trading company and fulfilled the commitment by strip mining Alabama’s hills with colossal shovels and trucks. When those reserves dwindled, Drummond Co. opened its first mine in Colombia in 1995. It came under attack from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a group that had been at war with the government since the 1960s.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin: 1.25rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Multiple Challenges</h2>Nubia says Garry Neil, as he’s known, didn’t make good on his tuition promise. “He never paid for a pencil,” she says.Drummond declined to comment on the matter. Nor did he answer a list of questions sent to spokesman Steve Bradley of Stephen Bradley & Associates LLC.Drummond and his company face a barge load of challenges, starting with a possible strike by its Colombian workers after more than a month of wage talks ended July 7 with management and union leaders failing to reach an agreement.Then there is the price of thermal coal, which is burned to produce electricity and which Drummond mines in Colombia. Its price has fallen 29 percent since Jan. 1, 2011, closing yesterday at $56.46 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Electric utilities have cut their use of coal to fire power plants, switching to cheaper natural gas. Just 37 percent of U.S. electricity came from coal last year, down from 50 percent in 2005. On July 9, Drummond told the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs that it planned to cut up to 425 workers at its Shoal Creek mine starting in September because declining coal prices.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin: 1.25rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Four Suits</h2>Also dogging Drummond is labor lawyer Terry Collingsworth, who has filed four civil suits against Drummond Co., two of which demanded compensation for the families of union leaders killed in Colombia while representing workers at the Alabamian’s mines. In 2007 Drummond won one case brought by Collingsworth after a U.S. District Court jury in Birmingham, Alabama, concluded the company didn’t aid or abet the killers. Another suit was dismissed in 2012.In the current case, filed in 2009, Collingsworth is suing the company and three current and former executives. The suit charges that Drummond Co. paid right-wing paramilitaries to terrorize the population along the 120-mile (190-kilometer) rail line from Drummond’s two mines to its port on the Caribbean, torturing and killing innocent people to keep them from giving haven to the FARC. Collingsworth sued Garry Neil Drummond personally for the same allegations in February.Collingsworth brought his first suit as general counsel for the International Labor Rights Forum. He is now a Washington-based partner at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, law firm Conrad & Scherer LLP. He has made his claims in part under the 1789 Alien Tort Statute, which gives federal courts jurisdiction to hear complaints from non-U.S. citizens for violations of international law. He says he’s suing in the U.S. instead of Colombia partly out of concern for the safety of the plaintiffs.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin: 1.25rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Sold Stake</h2>In numerous filings in the case, Drummond Co. and its CEO have denied any links to murders in Colombia. The company’s lawyer in the Colombian matters, William Jeffress of Houston-based Baker Botts LLP, declined to comment.The Colombian mines are crucial to Drummond Co., which had revenue of $3 billion in 2012, based on the volume of its coal shipments. The company estimates its coal reserves at 2.2 billion tons, 2 billion of which are in Colombia, according to the company’s website. In 2011, when coal prices were higher, Drummond Co. sold a 20 percent stake in the Colombian operations to Tokyo-based Itochu Corp. for $1.5 billion. Based on that sale, the Colombian mines were worth $7.5 billion. Two years later, the fall in the coal price makes them worth less than $3 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg comparing Drummond with publicly listed coal companies.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin: 1.25rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">A Billionaire</h2>Garry Neil is one of two surviving heirs of Heman Drummond, who founded the company in 1935. When Heman died in 1956, he left the company to his seven children. Today, Garry Neil owns 100 percent of the capital stock in Drummond Co., according to an April report by business information provider Dun & Bradstreet Corp. If that’s correct, Garry Neil is a billionaire. Bradley, the spokesman, declined to comment on the company’s ownership.Drummond is still charging hard at 75. He often works seven days a week, says Mike Zervos, who was president of mining operations at Drummond until 2004 and remains friends with Garry Neil. The pair spent many Sundays talking about conveyor-belt design and other improvements for the Colombian mines, Zervos says. “He’s the hardest worker in the coal business,” he says. “I know he’s worth a lot, but he earned it.”<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin: 1.25rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Mr. Tom</h2>In recent years, Drummond Co. has been expanding its operations in Alabama. Late last year, the company fired up Mr. Tom, its nickname for a giant 1970s-era dragline, to strip coal at the company’s Shannon mine, southwest of Birmingham. Mr. Tom is a 3,750-ton crane with a 320-foot (98-meter) boom that swings a bucket big enough to scoop up four Toyota Priuses. In January, Drummond moved the dragline 18 miles from an old mine near Brookwood, Alabama, to the Shannon mine on mechanical feet. The state required the company to write a 22-page cultural resource assessment of artifacts that Mr. Tom might crush on its journey.Garry Neil Drummond’s newest project, if he goes ahead with it, would be a mine on the banks of the Black Warrior River, near where the city of Birmingham draws its water. Shepherd Bend LLC, a Drummond holding, obtained a permit to mine there from the Alabama Surface Mining Commission in 2010. Much of the land is owned by the University of Alabama, where Drummond is a trustee emeritus. According to the Washington-based environmental group American Rivers, any mining on the Black Warrior would endanger Birmingham’s drinking water. Cathy Andreen, a spokeswoman for the University of Alabama, says no one has approached the school about mining on the land.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin: 1.25rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">‘A Conqueror’</h2>Garry Neil is going it alone. There are no relatives in Drummond Co.’s upper management. For years, the company prohibited new generations from joining to avoid family fights, Zervos says. Four years ago, Garry Neil broke with precedent and hired his nephew, Segal “Ed” Drummond Jr., as executive vice president. Ed resigned earlier this year, the company says.About 100 Drummonds gathered for Easter this year, Carolyn “Cappie” Drummond, who’s Ed Drummond’s wife, says in a telephone interview. Asked why Garry Neil doesn’t retire, she says: “He’s done it all his life. He’s a conqueror.”Drummond has five children. One is a vascular surgeon in Birmingham. Another, Gary with one “r”, died in 2008 at 51. The same year, the University of Alabama established the Gary Drummond Jr. Memorial Research Award to study schizophrenia.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin: 1.25rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">‘Exit Strategy’</h2>“The big question about Drummond is what is the exit strategy,” says coal industry consultant Douglas Blackburn of BlackAcre LLC in Richmond, Virginia.Drummond Co. could sell the two Colombian mines, where it produces coal at lower cost, to a giant like BHP Billiton Ltd., Blackburn says. Drummond Co.’s neighbor in Colombia is Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which bought the nearby La Francia mine in 2010.Drummond lives a world away from his strip mines, in woods that fringe Drummond Lake, east of Birmingham, according to property records. Satellite pictures show a large house with a swimming pool, a tennis court and a putting green. A short walk away is a heliport that’s owned by Drummond Co., according to government records.Environmentalists are Drummond’s most vocal critics in Alabama. One is John Wathen, who was named by the New York-based Waterkeeper Alliance as the creek keeper, or protector, of Hurricane Creek, a watershed southwest of Birmingham where Drummond once mined coal. Wathen, 61, says Drummond Co. is a major threat to the fish, turtles, mussels and snails that live in the state’s 77,000 miles of rivers and streams. Birmingham native E.O. Wilson, the Harvard University biologist who won the Pulitzer Prize twice for books on science and nature, did his graduate work on Hurricane Creek in the 1950s.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin: 1.25rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Streams ‘Are Gone’</h2>Standing in a graveyard in the hamlet of Adger -- a spot that affords the best view of Drummond’s Shannon mine -- Wathen watches dump trucks unload waste rock onto a ridge-like pile.“The streams that are out there are not polluted,” Wathen says in his Alabama drawl. “They’re gone.”Drummond Co. says on its website that it has reclaimed more than 60 sites after mining them, restoring soil and replanting trees. On the land from one restored mine, Drummond built a residential development with a golf course.Alabama is no coal powerhouse. It ranks 15th in the U.S. in production. Yet much of its coal is metallurgical, the high-quality coal from which coke is made for use in steel production. Heman Drummond worked in the mines as a young man before starting his own company in 1935. He took out a $300 loan, backed by three mules, from Walker County Bank, according to Drummond Co.’s website. When Heman died in 1956 at the age of 50, leaving the company to his children, Drummond had about $1 million in annual sales, according to Alabama’s Engineering Hall of Fame.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin: 1.25rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">30 Countries</h2>It was Garry Neil who vaulted the regional miner into international markets. After earning a civil engineering degree from the University of Alabama in 1961, he went to work full time in the family business. In 1969, he negotiated a five-year, $100 million export deal with Japanese trading company Ataka & Co., now part of Itochu, Drummond’s partner in Colombia. He became CEO four years later, leapfrogging his older brothers. Drummond Co. now sells its coal in more than 30 countries.In 1976, Drummond signed a 15-year contract with Alabama Power, a unit of Southern Co., to deliver 2 million tons of coal a year to the utility, according to Drummond’s website. It filled it by stripping coal from the Alabama hills with machines like Mr. Tom.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin: 1.25rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Federal Indictment</h2>With power and money came scrutiny. In 1979, a federal grand jury indicted Garry Neil, two other Drummond executives and three Alabama lawmakers in an alleged scheme to influence the legislators by, among other things, providing them with prostitutes. After an 11-week trial, Judge Frank McFadden dismissed the case without letting it go to the jury. Today, McFadden declines to comment on the matter and suggests looking up his rulings in the docket. However, the entire record of the case has been sealed, according to the U.S. District Court in Birmingham.The Drummond family spends tens of thousands of dollars on political donations in election years. In the 2012 cycle, Garry Neil alone gave $67,800 to candidates and political action committees, according to the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington. The company is the third-biggest donor to U.S. Senator Richard Shelby, a Republican from Alabama, behind power generator Southern Co. -- still a big Drummond customer -- and JPMorgan Chase & Co.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin: 1.25rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Bombing Railway</h2>In the 1980s, Garry Neil started prospecting in Colombia. Making money there meant mining amid a civil war. Soon after Drummond opened his first mine in1995, the FARC started bombing the railway that carries coal to Drummond’s Caribbean port. In 1999, according to Collingsworth’s complaint, Drummond began paying the paramilitary group Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia) for protection. In court documents, Drummond Co. denies making any such payments.Other companies have acknowledged paying the AUC. Chiquita Brands International Inc. in 2007 pleaded guilty to U.S. charges that it paid the AUC more than $1.7 million to protect its banana plantations from 1997 to 2004. The payments were illegal because the U.S. had designated the AUC a terrorist organization in 2001. Chiquita agreed to pay a $25 million fine. No executives were charged.AUC gunmen first arrived in the town of Becerril, about 15 miles from one of Drummond’s mines, in 1997 or 1998, according to Victoria Sanchez, 32. She fled in 2003 after a death squad took her father from his house and murdered him. He was a butcher with no connection to the Drummond union.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin: 1.25rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Death Squad</h2>Yameris Herrera, 45, also ran for her life in 2002 after the murder of her father, a farmer, and her uncle. Herrera’s mother discovered their tortured bodies after returning to the family farm from a trip to town. Her husband had been cut to pieces. Her brother’s head was severed.“They thought all the farmers were guerrillas,” Herrera says in an interview in Bogota.Sanchez and Herrera are among 600 plaintiffs in Collingsworth’s lawsuit, all people who lost family members to the AUC’s reign of terror in towns along the rail line, a campaign that the complaint said was heavily funded by Drummond. Collingsworth says he hopes to win his latest fight by using the testimony of the AUC members who have given depositions under Colombia’s 2005 Justice and Peace Law, which rewards those who confess to their crimes with reduced sentences.<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin: 1.25rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">‘Lethal Force’</h2>Alcides Manuel Mattos Tabares, alias Samario, is one who’s talked. In a deposition given in March 2012, he said Drummond Co. paid his AUC unit to provide security along the rail line.“We used lethal force,” Mattos said in his deposition. “We would just kill anyone who was said to be a guerrilla around those parts.”In January, Jaime Blanco Maya, who had run a food concession at Drummond Co.’s mines, was convicted in Colombia of arranging for the AUC to kill Drummond union leaders Locarno and Orcasita. He was sentenced to 38 years in prison.In a 2009 motion to dismiss Collingsworth’s complaint, Drummond Co. denied any link to any of the killings anywhere in Colombia. The company never hired the AUC to do anything, its lawyers said. And in a June 2012 deposition, Garry Neil said he had little to do with the South American operations.“I was never in charge of anything in Colombia,” he said.So far, there have been no convictions in Gustavo Soler’s murder, says Nubia, his widow. She supports herself by giving manicures and pedicures in people’s homes. She says that after Garry Neil Drummond reneged on his promise to pay for her kids’ education, she paid for it herself by selling cattle and jewelry.“It’s 12 years without justice,” she says.-- With assistance from Margaret Newkirk in Atlanta, Andrew Willis in Bogota and Mario Parker in Chicago. Editors: Anita Sharpe, Michael SerrillTo contact the reporters on this story: Anthony Effinger in Portland, Oregon at<a href="mailto:aeffinger@bloomberg.net" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.1s ease-out; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(43, 0, 247); background: transparent;">aeffinger@bloomberg.net</a>; Matthew Bristow in Bogota at <a href="mailto:mbristow5@bloomberg.net" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.1s ease-out; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(43, 0, 247); background: transparent;">mbristow5@bloomberg.net</a>To contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael Serrill in New York at<a href="mailto:mserrill@bloomberg.net" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.1s ease-out; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(43, 0, 247); background: transparent;">mserrill@bloomberg.net</a>; Anita Sharpe in Atlanta at <a href="mailto:asharpe6@bloomberg.net" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.1s ease-out; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(43, 0, 247); background: transparent;">asharpe6@bloomberg.ne</a>--wsj  Colombia Fines Drummond for Dumping CoalGovernment Slaps Alabama Mining Company With $3.6 Million Penalty for Incident, Which It Failed to Immediately Report to AuthoritiesBy DAN MOLINSKIUpdated Dec. 19, 2013 4:04 p.m. ETBOGOTA—Colombia's government Thursday handed Drummond Co. a $3--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummond_Company
Drummond Company, Inc. is a privately owned company based in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham,Alabama" title="Birmingham, Alabama" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Birmingham</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Alabama</a>, United States, involved in the mining and processing of coal and coal products. The company was founded in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper,Alabama" title="Jasper, Alabama" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Jasper, Alabama</a> in 1935 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H.E.Drummond&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="H. E. Drummond (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">H. E. Drummond</a>, and remains under the management of his sons.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummond_Company#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummond_Company#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummond_Company#Overview" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">1 Overview</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummond_Company#Controversy_in_Colombia" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">2 Controversy in Colombia</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummond_Company#See_also" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">3 See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummond_Company#References" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">4 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummond_Company#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">5 External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Overview[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Drummond_Company&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overview" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>
The company also owns Alabama By-Products Corporation, also known as ABC Coke, located in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrant,Alabama" title="Tarrant, Alabama" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; line-height: 22.4px; background: none;">Tarrant, Alabama</a>. The company also owns Rancho La Quinta Country Club in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Quinta,California" title="La Quinta, California" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; line-height: 22.4px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">La Quinta, California</a>.Drummond operates the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shoal_Creek(Alabama)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shoal Creek (Alabama) (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Shoal Creek</a> mine in northwestern part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_County,Alabama" title="Jefferson County, Alabama" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Jefferson County</a> in Alabama and the Pribbenow and El Descanso mines near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paso,Cesar" title="El Paso, Cesar" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">La Loma</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Department" title="Cesar Department" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Cesar Department</a> in northern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Colombia</a>. Both mines produce <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bituminous_coal" title="Bituminous coal" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">bituminous coal</a>. Output from Shoal Creek is sold to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Power" title="Alabama Power" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Alabama Power</a> under long-term supply contracts. Production from Pribbenow, comprising almost 50% of all coal mined in Colombia, is exported to 11 countries.Drummond announced in July 2010 that it had hired <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America_Merrill_Lynch" title="Bank of America Merrill Lynch" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bank of America Merrill Lynch</a> in its plans to look for a strategic partner to expand its El Descanso mining operations in northern Colombia.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Controversy in Colombia[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Drummond_Company&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Controversy in Colombia" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>The multinational has been sued at least three times for receiving support from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paramilitaries_in_Colombia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paramilitaries in Colombia (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">paramilitary groups in Colombia</a> who are involved in human rights violations against the civilian population and the murder of union leaders. The American Department of Justice has not found sufficient evidence and ruled in favor of the company which says it has never supported any action of illegal groups.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummond_Company#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a>In February 2013, journalist Alejandro Arias reported with photographic evidence dumping of hundreds of tons of coal to the sea by the company in January of the same year. Based on this evidence the Colombian Government temporarily suspended some operations of the company in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Marta" title="Santa Marta" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Santa Marta</a> where the incident occurred. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummond_Company#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">See also[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Drummond_Company&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A"); line-height: 22.4px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_of_Rodriquez_v.Drummond_Co." title="Estate of Rodriquez v. Drummond Co." style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Estate of Rodriquez v. Drummond Co.</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">References[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Drummond_Company&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="reflist" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummond_Company#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; outline: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; 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font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Semana (Colombia)</a></li></ol></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">External links[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Drummond_Company&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: External links" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A"); 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