Andrés McKinley - UK LAB
On March 29th, 2017, the small country of El Salvador became the first nation in the world to exercise its sovereign right to say “no” to metallic mining after carefully analyzing ...
The lawsuit was filed as a result of the Salvadoran government’s moratorium on mining. The ruling may not be known until March 2015.
By Fernando Santos Castro
Translated from http://voces.org.sv/2014/07/17/minera-presiona-al-estado-salvadoreno/ ...
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The United Nations(UN), has called on millions of people who on April 22 will celebrate Earth Day 2014 to focus on celebrating Green Cities to achieve a healthy and sustainable ...
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By: Elder Gomez, CoLatino News El Salvador faces an "international mafia" seeking control of the country's natural resources, through "frivolous" legal international ...
... rules that are intended to protect the air and water. The mine faces additional penalties for the wastewater discharge violations if the site’s operators don’t improve the mine’s performance, DHEC said. ...
... to ban all metals mining to save their rivers.
Today the United States faces a similar reckoning as El Salvador.
The Texas freeze that left millions without water exposed the desperate need to rein ...
... million Indigenous Peoples depending on Amazon forest faces the attacks of criminal groups and illegal miners.
The oil spill in Coca and Napo river in Ecuador affecting 200,000 Kichwa and Shuar people ...
... of the population, ”González added. Regarding the historical crisis on access to drinking water that the population faces, González recalled the management of the water crisis last January when the National ...
... that Colombia currently faces over US$18 billion dollars in threatened or pending suits, especially related to protecting Indigenous territory and fragile páramo ecosystems, which provide water to over ...
... and economy. In a country that already faces a water crisis, the El Dorado project could have disastrous effects on the environment and local communities. Therefore, the government has declared a moratorium ...
... days in the life of his family. His brother Marcelo “was one of the most known faces of the protest movement against the mine”. One day, six years ago, the teacher did not return home from school. Miguel ...
... presented the new draft of the law.
El Salvador now faces a legal battle in the court of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (CIADI) in Washington against the Canadian company ...
... government of El Salvador faces at the ICSID.
Women defenders of natural resources are the same that in everyday life experience the severe shortage and water pollution; women who suffer the serious ...
... experiences in fighting against the same enemy – OceanaGold.
At the end of the talk, a crucial question ensues: What are we going to do to change this reality? The reactions are various: some faces ...
... laws deemed barriers to profit. And the country could be on the hook for tens of millions more. In a case eerily similar to the one El Salvador faces, Lone Pine Resources is suing Canada for $250 million ...
... case eerily similar to the one El Salvador faces, Lone Pine Resources is suing Canada for $250 million in response to Quebec’s decision to put a moratorium on shale gas mining, better known as fracking. ...
... murders, those killed have become known as the “martyrs” of the mining movement, and their faces gaze down from posters in the offices of environmentalists campaigning for a nationwide ban on metallic ...
... country faces. Environmental problems have classified us as one of the countries most vulnerable to natural disasters in the world. Because of our geographic location we are affected by a variety of natural ...
... has affected 98% of our rivers, the chronic scarcity of potable water that population faces, as well as the fact that El Salvador is one of the most deforested and densely populated countries in Latin ...
... environment would exceed the multi-million debt that the country currently faces in the lawsuit filed by Pacific Rim.
By Ivannia Serrano
Translated by Jan Morrill
Original in Spanish
The last ...