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21. El Salvador Votes for Water over Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... processing of metals, whether in open pits or underground. It also prohibits the use of toxic chemicals like cyanide and mercury. In the lead-up to the vote, communities in the town of Cinquera had rejected ...; Created on 16 April 2017
22. A wake-up call for Trump's trade agend: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... members learned about the huge threat the cyanide used in mining posed to their main source of water, and they convinced their government to stop issuing new mining licenses in the entire country. The ...; Created on 03 March 2017
23. Community of San Sebastian still endures Commerce Group’s legacy of contamination.: (Commerce Group); ... propped up by old wooden beams of questionable quality. Nearby, the investigators checked on two shipping containers left behind by CGC. The containers are said to hold barrels of cyanide, the chemical ...; Created on 13 February 2017
24. FMLN Will Vote for the Ban on the Mining Industry in the Country: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... we are convinced that metal mining is one of the most environmentally destructive industries and therefore, one of the leading contaminators of water through the use of chemicals like cyanide and arsenic ...; Created on 10 February 2017
25. Transnational mining company loses the battle, but the war continues.: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... and use some 950 tonnes of cyanide, a deadly toxic. Had these plans succeeded, there would have been global earnings of about $10 billion dollars US. "El Salvador is a country with serious environmental ...; Created on 05 January 2017
26. Solidarity rally in Toronto as decision released in OceanaGold v. El Salvador case: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... of the Comité Ambiental de Cabañas -- which works to educate the community about the health and environmental risks of cyanide contamination as a result of gold mining operations by Pacific Rim/OceanaGold ...; Created on 10 November 2016
27. MUA calls on Australians to support campaign against OceanaGold: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... heavy metals such as cyanide – used to leach gold from the soil and arsenic, which is present wherever gold is found. The high content of heavy metals in the water has been blamed for the high incident ...; Created on 28 September 2016
28. Archbishop of El Salvador reinforces the church´s position against mining: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Hopefully mining will not take place in our country, because open pit mining can cause so much damage.” As cyanide is released into the environment, it breakdown into cyanates which are always absolutely ...; Created on 17 September 2016
29. Archbishop of El Salvador reinforces the church´s position against mining: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Hopefully mining will not take place in our country, because open pit mining can cause so much damage.” As cyanide is released into the environment, it breakdown into cyanates which are always absolutely ...; Created on 17 September 2016
30. Commerce Group Mining Corporation required to pay for environmental clean up of the San Sebastian mine.: (Commerce Group); ... testing at the site has confirmed severe pollution of the water flowing through the San Sebastian river which contains eleven times the healthy limit of cyanide and one thousand times the limit for lead ...; Created on 02 March 2016
31. Yes to life, no to mining! – Report Back Delegation to El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... France, Denmark, Italy, and Germany were involved. Invited by CIR, journalists Oliver Ristau and Charlotte Grieser, as well as documentary-maker Lisa Backmann, accompanied us. Cyanide-containers and polluted ...; Created on 03 February 2016
32. Resistance against the bloodsucker: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... covered by plants. Blanco knocks on them with a finger. The dull sound that follows shows that they are not empty. He says that they contain cyanide. Allegedly, the US mining company simply abandoned the ...; Created on 03 January 2016
33. El Salvador: Vote Against Gold: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... cyanide: a very toxic poison that was used in the gold extraction process. People fear that one day these containers will burst. COMPANY DEMANDS 300 MILLION DOLLARS In any case, Blanco assures they are ...; Created on 02 January 2016
34. Salvadorans Warn Canadians About World Bank's Kangaroo Cour: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); Rene Guerra - teleSUR The company’s proposed gold mine would have used thousands of tons of cyanide and hundreds of thousand liters of water per day In anticipation of an imminent ruling from the ...; Created on 18 May 2015
35. El Salvador’s struggle against corporate impunity: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... decisions since 2008 to deny gold-mining permits in order to protect scarce water resources from cyanide pollution. The fact that a country can be challenged for ruling in favor of its citizens’ right ...; Created on 20 October 2014
36. Protesters back El Salvador for denying gold mining permit: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... silver and gold, but mining has polluted water supplies, and residents say cyanide and arsenic are poisoning their children. The mining projects have led to civil unrest and five deaths in the area. “OceanaGold ...; Created on 17 September 2014
37. A corporate warning to El Salvador: Give up your gold or pay $315 million: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... with 9 times the acceptable limit of cyanide, and 1,000 times the acceptable level of iron. Cyanide is part of the chemical cocktail used on such mining sites to separate precious metals from excavated ...; Created on 06 August 2014
38. Incoming Minister of the Environment confirms continuation of mining moratorium in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... San Sebastian River which found high levels of contamination with Cyanide, 11 times above the norm, and Iron 1000 times above the norm. These studies have been used by environmentalists to raise public ...; Created on 29 May 2014
39. El Salvador, violence and impunity: (Mining and Human Rights); ... ICSID due to non-payment of fees on the part of the company, but the social, political and physical imprint left by the company remains. The cyanide left by Commerce Group’s earlier activities still ...; Created on 13 February 2014
40. OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK IN DEFENSE OF EL SALVADOR: (2013 North America Tour); ... that have been working through the democratic process to prevent a proposed cyanide-leach gold mining project, over well- founded risks that it will poison the local communities’ environment as well as ...; Created on 11 December 2013

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