... have to present a new EIA, as the one originally presented by Entre Mares/Goldcorp suffered from many technical deficiencies and was approved "in an illegal manner, because it was first rejected twice by ...
... now President of the Natural Resources Defense Front of Southern Puno. In his contribution he also rejected the payment of a multi-million dollar compensation that Bear Creek demands from Peru for the ...
... of Quiche in northwestern Guatemala.
In Honduras more than 40 open town meetings have been held in which the population of different localities has rejected similar projects, said Pedro Landa, of the Reflection, ...
... tribunal rejected OceanaGold’s claim for US$250 Million against El Salvador for not having granted it a permit to mine. The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) instead ordered ...
... made history, becoming the first country to ban metal mining outright, after a World Bank tribunal rejected last October a US$250 million lawsuit launched against the government by Canadian-Australian ...
By P. Cabezas & Sebastian Rosemont
In response to enormous public pressure, lawmakers have rejected appeals by global corporations and voted to protect the country’s people and water supply by banning ...
... for Settlement of Investment Disputes, ICSID, which handles investor-state disputes, rejected a claim from the company that it had lost profits after the Salvadoran government refused to grant a concession ...
... and social sectors) before the ICSID, which is a World Bank court, ruled in favor of the Salvadoran State and rejected the claims of the mining company. All the arguments are there, this is a debate that ...
... are: gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc and iron.
Although the projects are currently frozen, pending or rejected; the number of requests show evidence for the interest of mining companies in the country. ...
... during the past few years have been suspended and will be reviewed once the legal changes proposed are approved or rejected. The law was effective from 1995 to 2012, when the ministers of Economy and Environment ...
... presented, rejected six for considering that they were poorly raised and dismissed 13 concluding that there was no alleged unconstitutionality.
The objections, mainly from left leaning organizations, ...
... for a mining license was rejected on the basis of the projected environmental damage it would cause.
El Salvador is the most water-stressed country in the region. As a result, the government stopped ...
... trade agreement. When this was rejected, it moved the claim to the World Bank’s tribunal, which begins its secret hearing of the case today. According to El Salvador’s rejoinder, Pacific Rim never complied ...
... Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA). While that approach was rejected for lack of jurisdiction, Pacific Rim was still allowed to continue the arbitration based on an outdated investment ...
... from Australia, which has rejected investor-state dispute settlement, these resource-rich countries are likely to be most prone to investor-state suits under TPP if they take actions that foreign investors ...
Given its failure to pay its fees to ICSID, the tribunal rejected the extension request by the mining company Commerce Group in the trial against El Salvador
On August 9th the International Centre for ...
... Pacific Rim has never presented any actual plan or study to update its rejected 2005 environmental impact statement. No country should be obliged to allow a project to proceed without presenting an acceptable ...
... sulfates and various metals.
Wisconsinites thoroughly rejected the lax regulation that that “consensus” developed. In 1998 a broad-based alliance of conservation-minded citizens succeeded in passing ...
... their private "investor-state dispute system [ISD] ,which have been among the most controversial aspects of past US trade deals, should be rejected in trade and investment agreements. In particular ...
... On March 15, 2011, a tribunal at the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) rejected Commerce Group Corporation’s claim against the government of El Salvador, essentially ...