... affected by this rapid expansion because they depend directly on the land and the water (the first thing to be contaminated) for their livelihoods. Add to this the marginalization and persistent discrimination ...
... originate in their struggle to repopulate the town of Santa Marta, Cabañas, at the height of the bloody civil war. Founded by community members on their return from Honduran refugee camps, ADES and Radio ...
By Jen Moore : MiningWatch Canada
Latin America is slowly winning the fight against the corporate assault of transnational Canadian mining companies
El Salvador made history last month when it became the ...
... environment in the Western Hemisphere. It is the most deforested country in Latin America, with as low as 1 percent of its original forests intact. Over 90 percent of its surface waters are contaminated, ...
... relate to climate change and broader sustainability debates; as well as issues related to corporate accountability and human rights. Positioning the case in the international public imagination as a symbol ...
... (originally owned by Pacific Rim before being acquired by Australian-Canadian mining giant OceanaGold in 2013) in the northern province of Cabañas became the epicenter of the conflict. Between 2009-2011, four ...
... of the communities of Cabañas who oppose metal mining, who gave him a plaque of recognition.
Another concern is that communications originating in Washington since the week following the ruling between ...
... en su contra en caso minería
La Página (El Salvador): El Salvador gana litigio a minera Pacific Rim, que deberá reembolsar $8 millones
La Página (El Salvador): Lo que dejó Pacific Rim a su paso por El ...
... of kidney and lung diseases in their country.
The original company that applied for the exploration license was the Canadian company PacificRim. In September 2013, it was bought out by Collins Street ...
... then. Currently, the international legal system that governs international investment flows consists of about 3000 BITs and othert Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT. While originally these treaties were ...
By Wilber Ruano: RNES
An investigation by MiningWatch Canada reports that the activities of the El Dorado Foundation, originally established by Pacific Rim in El Salvador in 2005, and now run by OCEANAGOLD, ...
... the San Sebastian site and finding that CGC had failed to take measures to mitigate the impacts of contamination as established in the original environmental monitoring plan presented by the company. Subsequent ...
... a stick to stir the water up the stream that has dyed in red the originally gray pebbles. It splashes idyllically, and that is all of nature's romance. The stream flows from an old gold mine, where Blanco’s ...
Oliver Ristau*: Deutsche Welle / Translation: Marina Bonetti
El Salvador wants to protect its environment and therefore bans mining. The population supports the plan, on the other hand, a Canadian company ...
... differ from your original objectives?
It is a terrible regression, we the Foro del Agua, have been working on that proposal since 2006. We formally proposed changes in 2008 before the Legislative Assembly ...
... 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”, ...
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OceanaGold (originally Pacific Rim) is suing El Salvador for an amount equivalent to the country’s 3-year budget for health, education, and public security for not having granted it a permit to put a ...
... to 5% of its gross domestic product for not having granted it a permit to put a gold mine into operation, despite its project not having met regulatory requirements. Originally, Pacific Rim Mining launched ...
... suing the El Salvador government for $301 million for refusing a gold mining permit. To make the original claim in 2009, it shifted its HQ from the Cayman Islands to benefit from the ISDS clause in a US ...
... told MiningNews.net the union had become involved in the dispute after originally trying to help organise the truckers in El Salvador.
Bracken has been raising awareness on the “Water Not Gold” campaign ...