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1. July 22, 2013 Global Day of Action Against Open Pit Mining: The National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining reiterates demand for legislation prohibiting metal mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); PRESS RELEASE In commemoration of Global Day of Action Against Open Pit Mining the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining, once again demand the Legislature of El Salvador to expedite and promote ...; Created on 22 July 2013
2. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); *ANDRES MCKINLEY - El Faro On March 29, 2017, the Salvadoran population celebrated with joy, hope and pride the approval of a law prohibiting metallic mining in all of its forms at the national level. ...; Created on 14 December 2021
3. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business: (Mining and Human Rights); ... ban by prohibiting all large-scale metalliferous mining activity at every stage including prospection and exploration, not only exploitation. However, under increasing pressure from industry, the Chubut ...; Created on 17 May 2021
4. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... in its exploration phase, the company closed its facilities in 2017 due to the approval of the Law prohibiting metallic mining. Following the expectations of a local sector to improve the living conditions ...; Created on 05 January 2021
5. Ostúa River contaminated with lead and arsenic from Cerro Blanco mine: (Cerro Blanco); ... the spread of cross border contamination, since the Law Prohibiting Metal Mining in El Salvador (approved on March 2017) is only applicable on the national territory. The researcher and environmentalist ...; Created on 21 April 2020
6. Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects: (Regional News); ... the consultation processes to be non-binding, and as a result do not take them into account. Before the Salvadoran legislature approved, in March 2017, a historic law prohibiting metal mining in all ...; Created on 09 May 2018
7. Salvadorans Reinforce Commitment to Sustain Historic Mining Ban on its First Anniversary: (Media Releases); April 4th, 2018 A year since El Salvador's legislature unanimously approved a law prohibiting all metal mining activities in the country, Salvadoran organizations including the National Roundtable ...; Created on 06 May 2018
8. The fight for the environment in El Salvador gets recognition in Los Angeles: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... prohibiting metal mining in the country. However, the fight continues. "The company is still present in our department, despite the government's decision. It is a very serious situation for us that we ...; Created on 14 November 2017
9. Conservative candidate Carlos Calleja against mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... against mining in El Salvador. He made the statements through his social media accounts. Last March 29th, deputies of the Legislative Assembly approved the Law Prohibiting Metallic Mining which prevent ...; Created on 14 November 2017
10. OceanaGold announces it will stay in El Salvador despite prohibition: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... a law prohibiting mining exploration and exploitation, it makes no sense to maintain a company like Minerales Torogoz, OceanaGold's subsidiary in El Salvador, whose sole mandate is gold exploitation.” said ...; Created on 27 July 2017
11. In El Salvador, a moment more precious than gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... that the university began, two years ago, to develop a proposal for a bill prohibiting metallic mining. After a lengthy process of consultations with civil society organizations and other key actors, the ...; Created on 26 June 2017
12. El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... “Minerales Torogoz acknowledges the outcome of the recent vote by El Salvador’s Congress to approve a law prohibiting metallic mining in the country,” the company wrote in its statement Thursday. “The ...; Created on 16 April 2017
13. Political parties give assurances that they will support the prohibition of Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the Legislature approve a law prohibiting metal mining in El Salvador at a demonstration convened by the Archbishop´s Office and headed by Archbishop of San Salvador Jose Luis Escobar Alas himself. The ...; Created on 09 March 2017
14. Salvadorean Human Rights Attorney Congratulates Municipality that Rejected Mining Through Referendum: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... to the vote on a law prohibiting mining. One of the last legal initiatives against mining was presented last February 7 by officials of the Salvadoran Catholic Church. A World Bank (WB) arbitration body ...; Created on 08 March 2017
15. How communities in El Salvador are organizing to block mining projects: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Sandra Cuffe : Waging NonViolence Communities and organizations in northern El Salvador continue to organize referendums in an effort to keep their territories free of mining. Established by the country’s ...; Created on 05 March 2017
16. Pressure Mounts on El Salvadoran Legislature to Ban Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... referendums to ban metal mining.” The mayors from Chalatenango, from San José Las Flores, Arcatao, and Nueva Trinidad respectively, have all passed municipal ordinances prohibiting mining in their communities. ...; Created on 13 February 2017
17. PRESS RELEASE: Permanent Alert against Metallic Mining in El Salvador: (Media Releases); ... any possibility to the extraction of metals in the country, definitively prohibiting the exploration and exploitation of gold and silver, among other metals of the Salvadoran subsoil. For this reason ...; Created on 04 January 2017
18. Commerce Group Mining Corporation required to pay for environmental clean up of the San Sebastian mine.: (Commerce Group); ... the area. It urges the approval of a law prohibiting metal mining permanently in the country and demands that Commerce Group Corporation and its subsidiaries finance part of the cost of prevention and ...; Created on 02 March 2016
19. New Laws Seek to Limit Mining in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... farmers of San José Las Flores motivated other communities and mayors of other municipalities to organize referenda on prohibiting mining. Now, their objective is not only to protect the place where they ...; Created on 02 January 2016
20. A blunt NO to mining in Arcatao, Chalatenango: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... 84 years of age and with health difficulties, he took most his time to approach a polling station to vote for the local government to issue a "Municipal Ordinance" prohibiting metallic mining in their municipality. ...; Created on 11 November 2015

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