P. Cabezas
Dozens of civil society organizations in five different countries and hundreds of thousands of people took action to demand OceanaGold's withdrawal from El Salvador.
While the future of ...
The National Roundtable against Metal Mining issued the following response to the announcement of OceanaGold's purchase this week:
Multimillion dollar company purchases Pacific Rim mining company, will ...
Pac Rim Announces Pending ICSID Decision, the Social Movement
Responds
Monday April 30, Pacific Rim announced in a press release on MarketWatch that the company had been informed by the ICSID that ...
... in defense of resources, of life. We have a system that responds to the logic of death, with a form of "development" that is making our planet sick and killing it.
We are there fighting, while the system ...
... company’s case when El Salvador refuses to back down; El Salvador bans mining when its legislature responds to years of campaigning by activists who refused to be cowed by the brutal murder of their leader. ...
... the state of siege responds to commercial and business interests such as mining. "It is evident that the imposition of the state of siege does not seek to restore order and eradicate illegal activities. ...
... unanimously and that responds to a national consensus on the environmental, social and economic unviability of this harmful industry in our country. We also demand that the Executive government, specifically ...
... to ignore the popular demand.
“Until the national government responds to the call, communities will continue to take matters into their own hands to protect themselves and future generations from mining,” ...
... and feasibility studies, successive governments of Antonio Saca and Mauricio Funes denied permits.
The government rejection of Pacific Rim-OceanaGold also responds to scientific and economic data that ...
... firms mined gold for over a century, a mountain that also happens to be a key watershed for this area.
“I’ve seen this water also cranberry red and also bright yellow,” our companion responds. But then ...