... caused by a judicial decision. However, the license continues to be suspended.”
Brief timeline and context
In March 2012 residents from San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc – an area known as La ...
... help respond to the widespread and egregious abuses linked to Canadian companies including forced labour, sexual violence, and murder.”
Under the CNCA’s proposed law, if a company causes harm or fails ...
... that the expansion caused. Over forty families were uprooted and moved to a “Residential Unit” that adjoins the mine site, where the company exercises near complete control over daily life. On top of these ...
... more accurately describes Canada – specifically Toronto – as “the belly of the beast.” It is the epicentre of the global mining industry, precisely because the systemic violence that plagues the industry ...
... objectivity and independence, and under all the criteria studied, it found that the detention of the eight environmental defenders is arbitrary for three reasons:
1. First, because there is no legal ...
... almost any country in the Global South, from Papua New Guinea to Ghana, Ecuador to the Philippines, and you will find a Canadian-run mine that has caused environmental devastation or been the scene of ...
... in Honduras you are criminalized for defending nature. But we do believe that water cannot be negotiated, because water is life,” Reynaldo Dominguez, one of the Guapinol defenders, told me in a recent ...
... People's Network for the Environment said the decision was "a disaster upon disaster because the Mining Act of 1995 is still in place."
"We cannot allow this deluge of destructive large-scale mining when ...
... well on the cultural development of Wayúu communities, because they destroy the modes of organization and way of life of their inhabitants. Spiritual damage has been done through the desecration of sacred ...
... and Indigenous people, Morrison said on April 16, because “OceanaGold has been found to have committed serious human rights violations”.
OceanaGold started mining in Didipio in 2013, despite opposition ...
... in Semirara Island, central Philippines, March 2005. Image by TJCERAME – Wikimapia via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) While Duterte’s policies on mining have caused instability in the sector, experts ...
... like Vidalina Morales and Antonio Pacheco of the local Association for Economic and Social Development (ADES) were quickly alarmed by the dried-up springs and groundwater sources caused by the mine’s exploratory ...
... as well. To the extent this network, which came to be known as International Allies, was successful, it was because its members understood that OceanaGold’s lawsuit against El Salvador was their fight ...
... complete.’’
The Haile Gold Mine, a historic site that reopened under OceanaGold, is about six miles from the town of Kershaw in southern Lancaster County. The company is seeking to expand the site because ...
... and that those responsible for the illegal detention should be investigated.
The Working Group urged the Honduran State not to wait because every day they do not release them, they are committing another ...
... at the consular level in the Philippines and through its lack of corporate accountability mechanisms at home. “When some of the villagers were falsely accused, facing threats of extrajudicial killing because ...
... of one year, during which the PZ can terminate their Residency without cause. Terminated Residents have 180 days to vacate the zone before being evicted.
The cost, requirements, and subjective selection ...
... penalty against any South Carolina company in at least a year -- because of the period of time the gold mine did not follow the rules. The violations were noted in 2018 and 2019.
“DHEC is always concerned ...
... a month against a mine operated by Pan American Silver, a Canadian company. The residents demanded compensation for the environmental and economic damage caused by tailings spills and unauthorized use ...
... Agreement (FTAA) of the government with OceanaGold.
The governor said the floods that devastated northern Luzon last December were partly because the watersheds of the Cagayan River in Nueva Vizcaya ...