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1. Submission of Amicus Curiae Brief to Pac Rim Cayman LLC v. Republic of El Salvador, ICSID Case No. ARB/09/12
(OceanaGold/Pacific Rim)
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), “Submission of Amicus Curiae Brief to Pac Rim Cayman LLC v. Republic of El Salvador, ICSID Case No. ARB/09/12,” May 20, 2011,  available at: http://www.ciel.org/Publications/PAC_RIM_Amicus_20May11_Eng.pdf ...
Created on 14 March 2016
2. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... Salvador. The authors describe Pac Rim “as one entity operating in its Canadian headquarters, as a Cayman Island shell company, and on the ground in El Salvador.” At that time, there were no mines active ...
Created on 11 April 2021
3. Rural Communities’ Struggle Against US-Owned Mine Continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court
(Regional News)
... the mine to the United States. “In an effort to force El Salvador into a decision, Pacific Rim reincorporated its Cayman Islands subsidiary Pac Rim Cayman, LLC (Pac Rim) in Nevada, and transferred ownership ...
Created on 27 August 2018
4. Open letter to Oceana Gold
(Open Letter OceanaGold)
... in El Salvador in support of their work to prevent gold mining in their communities since 2009.  That is the year when your Pac Rim Cayman subsidiary filed an unjust investor - state lawsuit with the International ...
Created on 30 November 2017
5. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... until the country could conduct a country-wide economic and environmental assessment of mining’s impact.7 Furious about this de facto ban on mining, a firm called Pac Rim Cayman launched a lawsuit against ...
Created on 26 June 2017
6. El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... 2015 setting an all time record of 74 new cases in just one year. Pacific Rim is a Canadian company, also registered in the Cayman Islands tax haven. In its first attempt to bring the ISDS case against ...
Created on 23 June 2017
7. EL SALVADOR’S WIN AGAINST THE US MINING COMPANY PACIFIC RIM: A VERY NUANCED VICTORY
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... company Pacific Rim Cayman (now part of the Australian-Canadian company Oceana Gold) regarding a dispute over the granting of a mining licence for the El Dorado mine, a gold-mining project in Cabañas, ...
Created on 28 December 2016
8. Solidarity rally in Toronto as decision released in OceanaGold v. El Salvador case
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... and the Council of Canadians, demonstrated support for El Salvador's sovereignty in deciding to stop issuing mining licenses.     In this multi-million dollar David-and-Goliath case, PacRim Cayman (now ...
Created on 10 November 2016
9. International Allies statement on the victory of the people of El Salvador Vs OceanaGold
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... million dollars that the ICSID tribunal ordered its subsidiary, Pacific Rim Cayman, to pay to the government of El Salvador for legal expenses. We will continue working with you so that OceanaGold, its ...
Created on 10 November 2016
10. ICSID decision buoys El Salvador in mining dispute
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
...  In response to the moratorium, in 2009 a Pacific Rim subsidiary called Pac Rim Cayman took El Salvador to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, or ICSID, an arbitration panel ...
Created on 10 November 2016
11. PRESS RELEASE: Coalition of Groups States “There are No Winners”
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... to today’s decision by the controversial International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on the seven-year old case of Pac Rim Cayman vs. El Salvador, stating that “there are no winners” ...
Created on 14 October 2016
12. PRESS RELEASE: Release the Verdict Now!
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... of Investment Disputes (ICSID) to release a favorable decision for El Salvador on the Pac Rim Cayman LLC vs El Salvador case.    Solidarity actions with the National Roundtable Against Mining in El ...
Created on 06 October 2016
13. El Salvador presents new motion prior to the relasing of the verdict on the Pacific Rim case.
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... Luis Parada explains. The diplomatic document was sent a year and a half before the lawsuit, which is registered in the tribunal as “Pac Rim Cayman LLC v. Republic of El Salvador, ICSID Case No. ARB/09/12”, ...
Created on 26 October 2015
14. The lawsuit that could put El Salvador in check
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... international arbitration and changed the nationality of its subsidiary Pac Rim Cayman from the Cayman Islands to the United States, in order to have recourse to the Free Trade Agreement between the United ...
Created on 30 September 2015
15. Media coverage of the International Month of Action
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... suing the El Salvador government for $301 million for refusing a gold mining permit. To make the original claim in 2009, it shifted its HQ from the Cayman Islands to benefit from the ISDS clause in a US ...
Created on 29 September 2014
16. Solidarity Statement from Philippine Groups on El Salvador vs Oceana Gold/Pacific Rim
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... Pacific Rim Cayman LLC against the Republic of El Salvador under the World Bank’s International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Pacific Rim, a Canadian transnational mining ...
Created on 11 September 2014
17. El Salvador loses on three out of four counts, as anti-environment and anti-development case launched under CAFTA drags on
(FTAs & ISDS)
... arguments in last Friday’s Pac Rim Cayman LLC v. El Salvador jurisdictional ruling. Even though it narrowly won dismissal of its CAFTA case, the underlying claims will proceed at World Bank-based hearings ...
Created on 05 July 2012
18. Congressional Briefing: Do Trade Agreement International Investor Protections Imperil Local Communities and the Environment?
(Background and reports )
... Cayman island subsidiary in Nevada and then filed an investor-state suit against El Salvador under CAFTA.  The company now seeks hundreds of millions in compensation for its “lost profits” through an international ...
Created on 04 April 2012
19. The costs of ICSID arbitration and the consequences for the enjoyment of social rights in El Salvador
(FTAs & ISDS)
... Tranlsation by Lela Singh. [2] Fundación de Estudios para la Aplicación del Derecho (FESPAD). www.fespad.org.sv [3] Company of Canadian capital incorporated in the Cayman Islands until 2007 when it ...
Created on 29 February 2012
20. Pacific Rim
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... Nevada called Pacific Rim Cayman LLC, a subsidiary that had not been active since Pacific Rim sold their only Nevada interest in October 2008.  In June of 2012, the ICSID tribunal hearing the case ruled ...
Created on 31 December 2010

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