... and human commercial activity.
These conditions have left as a legacy the pollution that magnifies the impacts of climate change and worsens the living conditions for the population that suffers its ...
... of Jutiapa in Guatemala and is home to the Cerro Blanco mining project. Local communities and environmental organizations have long been concerned about the environmental impacts of this project on shared ...
... can be described as one of the most aggressive industrial activities, environmentally, socially and culturally, because it generates great impacts on the natural and cultural landscape, pollutes the air, ...
... to protect ourselves because if they displace the communities of the Garífuna people, they will disappear. And that is the goal of this government.
One of the big impacts on the Garífuna people is forced ...
... were aware of the impacts that mining exploitation would have on water and the environment in general.
In recent days we have learned that the Salvadoran government has approached specialists from the ...
... State to implement the law. In particular, the report points to a government´s debt with communities affected by mining: they still face the impacts of acid drainage in abandoned mines, there has not been ...
... awaits the peoples of Southern Mindanao. The project will potentially impact five major river systems: Buayan, Taplan, Padada, Alip, and Manteo, and as the rivers flow, the impacts will be felt in Ligawasan ...
... shareholders submitted questions regarding the social and environmental impacts of the company’s business on communities in Mexico, Peru, Guatemala and Argentina, they were ignored and their questions ...
... criminalized by the Honduran government for defending the Guapinol River against the environmental impacts of a new iron oxide mine in the Carlos Escaleras National Park.
So far, at least eight people ...
... exploration applications to its name.
The reactivation of Cerro Blanco, and its change from undergound mining to open pit mining entails much greater and irreversible socio-environmental risks and impacts. ...
... efforts to ensure that Glencore assumes responsibility for its impacts, the landscape in the territories does not seem to have changed much. For this reason it is necessary to support the push for mechanisms ...
... rocky soil of Lancaster County. State and federal regulators held a meeting Thursday to hear what the public thinks about the mine expansion plan and whether the environmental impacts have been studied ...
... in cash, instead of $5 million as initially proposed by the state. The Sierra Club’s action followed a series by The State on the environmental impacts of gold-mining in Montana and South Carolina.
Chris ...
... toxic metal with an array of health impacts on people and wildlife.
According to a DHEC enforcement order released Thursday, the Haile Gold Mine exceeded safe limits multiple times for mercury pollution ...
... allow families to secure their daily livelihood. "To the extent that these initiatives can be replicated and scaled, and have greater coverage, they can have positive impacts on the population", said the ...
... Signed in 2019, the six-year agreement covers economic benefits, such as jobs and scholarships, as well as provisions to alleviate serious impacts upon the community’s water and health—impacts that have ...
... ignores or even awards corporate abuses by enabling private companies to sue national governments over matters of public interest, such as the devastating social and environmental impacts of mining.
“KCA’s ...
... armed security guards at the peaceful camp that had been set up a month earlier to defend the rivers that supply the community from the impacts of contamination by the mining project illegally installed ...
... burdens for them. Since the population is more aware and more organized, due to the negative impacts that these companies generate, greater resistance has ensued," said Landa in conversation with DW. The ...
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A complex array of multiple crises slowly brewing for four years breached the tipping point and inundated the Philippines in just the last four and a half months. This is the story ...