Francisco Coto - La Opinion
For 13 years, Vidalina Morales and other environmental activists, led constant fight against a Canadian/Australian mining company which threatened the north of El Salvador. ...
... Embassy or Consulate in your city calling for the immediate release of the Water Defenders.
Organize a social media event (we’ll provide the messaging and targets!)
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... level. In a joint statement, the organizations list the targets of their complaints: ESB (Electricity Supply Board) – an Irish state-owned company that buys coal from Cerrejón; the Dublin-based Coal Marketing ...
... mining companies use cyanide to separate the gold from the rock. That cyanide then gets into the water. El Salvador is a very small country and El Salvador basically has one main river that supplies more ...
... who have peacefully opposed the mine for years, were falsely accused of sedition, making them targets for extrajudicial killings,” said Catherine Coumans of MiningWatch Canada. “In 2020, police used violent ...
... kilometres north of Los Filos in Guerrero state, as well as others elsewhere in the country, as industrial mines in Mexico have become targets for extortion by organized crime, often in collusion with ...
... home in Honduras by hired hitmen in 2016. A judge will decide whether the case against one of the alleged killers, David Castillo, gets sent to trial.
At least 212 land and environmental defenders were ...
... attendees, away from the problems that often accompany these operations.
“While Pan American Silver gets to promote its image as a gold+ sponsor of PDAC, the negative experiences of mining-impacted communities ...
... suspended the mining permit of OceanaGold due to the enormous environmental destruction its project had caused.
Padilla is a quiet man, slight of build and unimposing, but his voice gets deeper and his ...
... equivalent to three years of the Salvadoran national health, education and public safety budgets combined.
Delivering the message – Making it emblematic
A clear, evidence-based narrative is only as powerful ...
... and gets out of El Salvador, and we demand the same of its subsidiaries Minerales Torogoz and El Dorado Foundation. We will be attentive and demanding that the Company will pay immediately the 8 million ...
... the affected population gets organized first. This reflection of hope concludes our talk, and we say goodbye with the belief that we can win this battle together. Just before leaving, we all repeat aloud: ...
... territory in March. “If the ICSID forces El Salvador to pay the US$301 million, where is that money going to come from? From the already limited education and health budgets in the country?” asked Gálvez ...
... hunger for the world’s resources gets ever more competitive, killings of those defending their rights to land and the environment will rise and rise.” His team’s work in collecting information on murders ...
... expected profits’) through, say, environmental regulation, the door to litigation may be opened.”
El Salvador proves that this threat is real. Undoubtedly poorer nations – whose national budgets are ...
... definition of "responsible mining" focuses on "responsibility" in terms of who gets the economic and financial benefits of mining. Just as the first definition builds on mainstream economic theory, this ...
... of the 158 ICSID member governments.[1] And yet they are the targets of 79 (46.7%) of the 169 ICSID pending cases (as of March 2013) and 31 (51%) of the 60 current extractive industries cases.
In ...
... transportation to El Salvador and local accommodations.
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We will be sending other information as the time gets closer in the meantime you can read the following article http://news.mongabay.com/2012/1022-mining-el-salvador-llewellyn.html ...
... trivia category is how global mining corporations undermine democracy.
First a bit of background. The way licensing for mining works is that a company first gets an “exploration license.” With that license, ...
... intellectual authors be brought to trial.
2. That adequate protection is provided for the environmentalists who have received threats or who have been targets of attacks, including Father Neftalí, ...