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21. Water 2.0 - Salvadoreans take to the streets to battle renewed attempts to privatize water resources: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... block of the legislature. With a total of 61 out of 84 seats, the right has more than 50% of the votes to pass simple legislation without debate and more than a two third majority required to approve the ...; Created on 24 June 2018
22. Church in El Salvador backs law declaring clean, affordable water as a human right: (Water Crisis El Salvador); ... but there is total freedom for businesses.” (Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, appointed by Pope Francis last year, is the auxiliary bishop of San Salvador.) For nearly two decades, El Salvador has considered ...; Created on 08 May 2018
23. The fight for the environment in El Salvador gets recognition in Los Angeles: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... issue of mining was a totally unknown issue," said Morales, who added that she had to "raise awareness among the population" about the threats it posed. All this fight for the environment represented threats ...; Created on 14 November 2017
24. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... American nation of El Salvador passed a total ban on metal mining. The historic vote on the law was unanimous, bridging strong partisan divides, and was the culmination of more than a decade of activism, ...; Created on 26 June 2017
25. El Salvador Passes Historic Law To Ban Metal Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... powerful Catholic church. In the viewing section of the Legislative Assembly, activists cheered, hugged, and cried as the vote total passed the threshold. “The unanimous vote to prohibit mining vindicated ...; Created on 16 April 2017
26. El Salvador Votes for Water over Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... American nation’s environment and natural resources. Approved on March 29 with the support of 69 lawmakers from multiple parties (out of a total of 84), the law blocks all exploration, extraction, and ...; Created on 16 April 2017
27. Pressure Grows on Mining Giant to Pay $8 Million to El Salvador: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... In total, the tiny Central America country has paid more than US$13 million in legal costs and fees. The ICSID ruling against the company came as a surprise because the tribunal has previously been criticized ...; Created on 05 March 2017
28. In El Salvador, OceanaGold Must ‘Pay Up and Pack Up’: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); MiningWatch After seven years, four murders and US$24 million in total legal costs, in October 2016, a little-known World Bank tribunal trashed OceanaGold’s claim that El Salvador either owed it a mining ...; Created on 03 March 2017
29. Transnational mining company loses the battle, but the war continues.: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... exploratory projects had been approved for 11 foreign companies, which planned to extract some 12 million ounces of gold and 78 of silver in total. They planned to use about 22 million liters of water, ...; Created on 05 January 2017
30. El Salvador: ‘We will never lose our faith’: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... negative impacts of mining and extractive industries. Hope is the last thing you lose. In El Salvador we will continue to push the government and legislative assembly for a total prohibition on mining. ...; Created on 19 March 2016
31. El Salvador: Just Saying No to Gold Mining: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... conditions want to have the option of opening the country to mining available in the future. For those who advocate that total prohibition is the only solution, the fight to stop mining permanently for ...; Created on 03 January 2016
32. Arcatao: participatory democracy defeats mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... a total of four consultations in the Department of Chalatenango. In order to assure the complete coverage of the whole region, other six referenda of the sort should be set up in neighboring municipalities. ...; Created on 11 November 2015
33. Communities Oppose Mining Project: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... total surface. “Four million inhabitants will be affected in El Salvador, because this will trigger a domino effect, damages originate in Cabañas, but they will be felt elsewhere along the Lempa river”, ...; Created on 30 September 2015
34. IUDOP: 77% of the Salvadorean population asks for metal mining to be prohibited: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); Joakin Salazar - Colatino "Total disagreement with metal mining" is the result of the poll conducted by the University Institute of Public Opinion (IUDOP) of the Central American University, Jose Simeon ...; Created on 17 July 2015
35. A corporate warning to El Salvador: Give up your gold or pay $315 million: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... for aquatic life, according to a recent study. “That means 98 percent of the total surface water in El Salvador is contaminated,” said Pedro Cabezas, coordinator of the International Allies Against Mining ...; Created on 06 August 2014
36. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); ... killed after an evening of heavy drinking with gang-members, one of whom was allegedly his gay lover. Rivera’s friends and family describe him as teetotal, say he did not have a partner, and were unaware ...; Created on 13 February 2014
37. About mining in El Salvador: (Water no Gold); ... for 20% of its total stock. Pacific Rim announced that such investment would finance its continued legal dispute with the government of El Salvador. Since then members of La Mesa and their international ...; Created on 06 November 2013
38. El Salvador faces "international mafias" in "frivolous" international law suits ...: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... corporation full control of the total exploitation of geothermal resources, one of the main sources of electrical power in the country. Pacific Rim, now Oceana Gold, has claimed $315 million from El ...; Created on 23 October 2013
39. National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining on the temporary suspension the Cerro Blanco mining project: (Media Releases); ... the temporary suspension announced by the company is not enough, we must move towards the total closure of the mining project and avoid a political and environmental conflict between the two Central American ...; Created on 04 August 2013
40. The Rights Clash: (Commerce Group); ... in Central America totally uninhabitable. These effects would almost certainly be irreversible and would be disastrous for the 3.75 million people who live in the area. Fr. Tojeira is not the only one ...; Created on 15 July 2013

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