... Coordinator of the Latin America Program Mining Watch Canada, while presenting a joint research document with the National Roundtable against Mining.
The document entitled "Mining, corporate social responsibility ...
Please note this is a preliminary program and it will change as we arrange locations organize with others.
Day one
Getting to know each other and orientation
Day two
Morning: Travel ...
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Thursday May 9
Afternoon arrival in San Salvador.
Evening meal, entertainment and networking session with members of the National Roundtable Against Mining and other civil ...
... the five community leaders arrested on January 11) have reported the presence of unknown individuals offering to buy land and fund social programs, and two mayors in the region claim to have communicated ...
... Initiative, an international investment program to develop infrastructure, energy and mining projects. El Salvador joined in 2019.
Anti-mining protesters in El Salvador. (Photo courtesy of Institute ...
... from the communities that representatives of mining companies are visiting their territories to offer social programs and to lease large quantities of land."
"With that in mind," Cabezas concluded, "the ...
... administration of former President Benigno Aquino III.
Creating new mining deals will also spur employment opportunities in rural areas, as well as provide support to its flagship infrastructure program, ...
... that provides billions of dollars each year in commercial loans to Canadian corporations operating in the international energy sector.”
She also pointed to the Canada Pension Plan, a public pension program ...
... government agencies, and NGOs.”
In September 2020, the company announced the launch of a “participatory monitoring program” in the municipality where the mine is located. In response to a letter sent ...
... and aid programs implemented after a 2009 coup. Afterwards, President Juan Orlando Hernandez declared Honduras “open for business.”
The country sold its natural resources, fuelling the expansion of extractive ...
... a press release presenting the results of the drilling programme at the Cerro Blanco project with “three subway and thirteen surface drill holes totalling 4,493 meters.”
The Canadian company, Bluestone ...
... had been tapped.
He said the mining industry could bring "significant economic benefits to the country" by supporting the government's "Build, Build, Build" infrastructure programme and creating jobs.
The ...
... in resuscitating an economy bogged down by the COVID-19 pandemic, by generating revenue and jobs and contributing to Duterte’s flagship infrastructure program. Duterte’s pivot in favor of mining goes back ...
... mining and water through radio and TV programs, community forums, church sermons, university-based events, fact sheets, and flyers at mass marches. The success of these efforts was demonstrated in polls ...
... programs to weatherize homes — much less upgrade the state’s decaying water infrastructure.
This extreme weather disaster gave Americans a glimpse of the daily reality of billions who struggle to protect ...
... company – by then owned by OceanaGold - terminated the employment contract of more than 80 local employees who worked in the administrative department, social programs, research and geological analysis ...
... programs, the Kenya Forest Services has demolished over 300 Ogiek homes in Mau Forest and burned 28 homes in Embobut Forest.
In countries with most aggressive projects encroaching ancestral lands, fear ...
Jen Moore | Canadian Dimension
As gold prices soar to record levels, the Los Filos gold mine in Mexico, one of the country’s largest, has sat idle since early September after its owner, Vancouver-based ...
... Studies - Global Economy Program (USA), London Mining Network (UK), MiningWatch Canada, Terra Justa, War on Want (UK), and Yes to Life No to Mining, with input from numerous partner organizations and communities ...