The Market Herald
Oliver Gray
OceanaGold (OGC) has been fined US$100,000 (roughly A$128,500) for breaching environmental rules at its Haile Gold Mine in South Carolina This marks the third time in ...
... the position of ANEP has logic. Large scale enterprise in El Salvador has not suffered from water scarcity. It has not lived this nightmare. Rather, it has been, and continues to be, an important causal ...
Jeff Abbott : UPSIDEDOWN WORLD
The long-running struggle of rural communities in Guatemala against the United States-based mining firm Kappes, Cassiday, and Associates (KCA) continues in Guatemala’s ...
... Law against Metallic Mining that was approved last March. “Our main goal is to continue lobbying governmental institutions and in the Legislative Assembly. We have to avoid the possible repeal of the ...
... El Salvador but does not show any signs of giving up the extractive business in this Central American country.
"The threat has not disappeared yet, they (OceanaGold) continue their efforts to confuse people ...
TELESUR
For grassroots organizations, the fight to protect water and local communities continues, now on a larger scale.
After El Salvador won a decade-long legal battle against mining company OceanaGold on ...
P. Cabezas
The Ministries of Economy, Environment, FIAES and the Maquilishuat foundation recently released a report on the environmental legacy and damages to health caused by mining operations abandoned ...
The ICSID Rules the Pacific Rim Case will Continue
As the clock ticked towards five pm on Friday, June 1st, the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) released its ruling ...
... US assistance. The return of mining will only continue to exacerbate these injustices. At the same time, the Bukele administration apparently views mining as a way to bolster the country’s sagging revenues, ...
... have, for decades, been calling for justice."
"The current government, however, has chosen to actively uphold decades of impunity," the groups continued. "Rather than investigate or prosecute those responsible ...
A municipal referendum was held on September 18 in Asunción Mita, Guatemala, that will impact the future of the Cerro Blanco mine. The question on the ballot aske
d people if they were in agreement ...
... the peoples of the cross-border region, declared the manager of the Mancomunidad, Héctor Aguirre.
The tributary of the Lempa has a route of 422 kilometers and is born in Guatemala (30.4 km), continues ...
... the peoples of the cross-border region, declared the manager of the Mancomunidad, Héctor Aguirre.
The tributary of the Lempa has a route of 422 kilometers and is born in Guatemala (30.4 km), continues ...
... which intends to continue with the "Cerro Blanco" project by changing the methodology of underground tunnel mining for open pit mining which is a method much more destructive and causes permanent and irreversible ...
... It has been shown and continues to be shown, that women have a lot of inventiveness and capacity to join in our struggles.
It was also shown that international pressure, the permanent accompaniment, ...
... Alliance against the Privatization of Water, the Roundtable of Churches in El Salvador and the Central American University state the following:
The Law continues to harm the rural and urban Community ...
... in the country and, on the contrary, the environmental and water crisis continues to worsen day by day.
In this sense, as civil society organizations that at that time fought for the prohibition of metallic ...
... a basic human right, the current administration continues to prioritize the interests of large companies over the interests of poor communities, approving projects that threaten sites for the recharging ...
... must continue, because people's lives are at stake", said the Cardinal, who underlined: "we cannot leave this issue in chaos". The constitutional ratification of a reform that recognizes access to water ...
... with which we started will continue at coming meetings. What we seek, what brings us here to the consultation in good faith, is the right to self-determination of our people and the right to consent… We ...