... mining giant is preemptively ramping up its operations in and around protected land on New Zealand’s North Island, local conservationists and residents say.
Waihi, a town of nearly 6,000, sits at the ...
... yes to life!” Local efforts were key to winning this hard-fought national consensus.
In the years leading up to the vote, while facing a largely unresponsive government, Salvadoran citizens, with the ...
... in the past armed conflict and it has an abundant ecological diversity that is currently encouraged by local governments through sustainable development initiatives that promote the protection and conservation ...
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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 ...
Do Trade Agreement International Investor Protections Imperil Local Communities and the Environment?
On Wednesday, March 28th Luis Gonzalez, a member of the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining ...
... in Vallecito? How was this project born and what does it consist of?
Vallecito is a life project: a proposal for autonomy, food sovereignty, building local power, and a real power. In the sense that ...
... has forced local communities to assume water supply by themselves, with the support of NGOs and international aid.
Although the Law recognizes community water systems in a nominal way, it does not provide ...
... of strategic aquifers while water defenders in localities like Valle de Ángel in Apopa, the La Labor community in Ahuachapán and many others are accused of terrorism, persecuted and imprisoned.
Faced ...
... that documents the events and strategies that led to the historic ban on metal mining in El Salvador.
Seen from the perspective of the activists who let the local struggle against mining, the document ...
... November 2017. Colombia's constitutional court suspended operations due to concerns about the impact of diverting a river on the local water supply.
Anglo American's latest legal challenge was filed ...
... part that the government failed to adequately protect its mine from local communities that set up a peaceful protest camp out of fear that gold mining would contaminate scarce water supplies.
This accusation ...
... by lawmakers from the Makabayan bloc.
“Local 'no mining zones' and a legislated prohibition of the destructive open pit method will allow us to conserve our mineral resources until such time a genuine ...
... American is fueling with Indigenous Mapuche Tehuelche People and other residents of the province of Chubut, Argentina. The company’s involvement in pressuring local authorities to overturn a mining ban ...
... type of thing.”
“So, it has to be implemented in binding legislation and enacted in law for it to actually work, and also they need to be working alongside local community members to ensure that the ...
...
At the beginning of March, protesters pelted Argentinian president Alberto Fernández’s bus over his support for mining in Patagonia. Local and indigenous communities in the southernmost part of the hemisphere ...
... who have opposed the mine have been killed, putting its owner, Inversiones Los Pinares, at the centre of a deadly environmental conflict in the mineral-rich Bajo Aguán region. Local communities are concerned ...
... Chamber of Mines of the Philippines said the removal of the "policy roadblock" would encourage local and foreign investment.
Mining projects "will provide additional government revenues in the form of ...
... were also impacted.
The first round of permanent layoff came more than a year after FTAA between OceanaGold Philippines Inc. (OGPI), OceanaGold’s local subsidiary, and the Philippine government expired. ...
... and powerful Western corporations set their sights on these lands, or the minerals beneath them, local people standing in their way frequently find themselves bulldozed. In the era of climate catastrophe, ...
... which have demonstrated environmental pollution associated with mining activity. Testing of the local population has also shown the excessive presence of toxic metals in the blood of dozens of men, women ...