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21. A New Environmentalist Playbook An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of Salvadorans to oppose mining, including more than 3 out of 5 consulted in a 2007 University of Central America poll. The most shocking ordeal faced by the water defenders was Rivera’s gruesome murder. ...; Created on 23 April 2021
22. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... to it. One of the companies that made the most news during the pandemic was the Swiss mining transnational Glencore. Some of the most important of these developments regarding Glencore’s operations and ...; Created on 22 April 2021
23. ‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... The mining sector was the deadliest in the world for environmental and land defenders in 2019, according to Global Witness; the Philippines has the most mining-related killings that year, and activists ...; Created on 15 April 2021
24. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... the almost-seven-year-long Pac Rim lawsuit against El Salvador at the ICSID. Pac Rim sued the Salvadoran government for not issuing them a mining permit. It took the ICSID six years and 10 months—and cost ...; Created on 11 April 2021
25. What Salvadoran Activists Can Teach Us About Building Coalitions: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... of Wall Street. Undoubtedly, the most vital component was the determination and organizing acumen of the Riveras, Morales, and their allies in the community groups that anchored La Mesa. Yet other community-based ...; Created on 05 April 2021
26. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption: (OceanaGold); ... per ounce, according to Bloomberg News. Since the mine opened, it has had multiple environmental violations. Most recently, state regulators said it violated a federal wastewater discharge law by releasing ...; Created on 02 April 2021
27. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger: (OceanaGold); ... won’t be stuck with a cleanup bill one day, Columbia lawyer Bob Guild said. “My view is they need to have more financial assurance, generally, and it needs to be in the most reliable form that is not subject ...; Created on 30 March 2021
28. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... assassinated. These water defenders won over the most unlikely of allies, like a conservative archbishop alarmed by the dangers of cyanide. They even flew in a governor from the Philippines, who spoke ...; Created on 28 March 2021
29. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... knocked on the doors of unlikely allies. Most of those people didn't originally want to see the water defenders, but at a certain point, they listened. We have a stereotype of activists. We think of them ...; Created on 22 March 2021
30. Parliamentary Petition Calls on Canada to Act on Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... and through the role that Canadian mining companies play in the country. “The Philippines is now one of the two most dangerous countries for defenders of human and environmental rights according to Global ...; Created on 25 February 2021
31. US Senators introduce bill to tackle corruption & rights violations in Honduras - cite Guapinol case: (Mining and Human Rights); ... his most recent indictment, Hernández has been named a co-conspirator in three other high-profile drug trafficking and corruption cases that have been tried or are being prosecuted by the United States ...; Created on 23 February 2021
32. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); NACLA Beth Geglia and Andrea Nuila It’s almost like an insult that this is happening to us now, after so much sacrifice to develop the community to the point it’s at today,” Venessa Cardenas explains, ...; Created on 15 February 2021
33. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town: (OceanaGold); ... most recent enforcement action, the Haile Gold Mine and a contract laboratory have been fined nearly $128,000 for violating environmental rules in recent months. In September, DHEC announced it had fined ...; Created on 12 February 2021
34. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... mining operations in Peru go far beyond the Bear Creek corporation. The government of Canada estimates that in 2018, Canadian foreign direct investment in Peru totalled $14.2 billion, with most of that ...; Created on 21 January 2021
35. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... that ravaged their community and polluted their water is one of the most inspiring I have read in many years. A blueprint for further global action and a lesson about how to enlist an array of unlikely ...; Created on 14 January 2021
36. Disputes against governments under investment treaties: a growing trend in the mining industry in 2020: (ISDS); ... most modern investment treaties contain investor-state arbitration clauses. These operate to allow an investor of one state party (such as a mining company incorporated in the relevant state) to bring ...; Created on 06 January 2021
37. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... farmer in El Junquillo community, Guacotecti, Cabañas Most of the inhabitants of the El Junquillo community manage to study only up to the sixth grade of primary education and then, they dedicate themselves ...; Created on 05 January 2021
38. 2020 in Review: Latin America and Investment Arbitration: (ISDS); ... from the traditional approach to investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS). Our authors did a tremendous job covering and sharing their insights on the most important developments affecting our industry. ...; Created on 19 December 2020
39. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... programs, the Kenya Forest Services has demolished over 300 Ogiek homes in Mau Forest and burned 28 homes in Embobut Forest. In countries with most aggressive projects encroaching ancestral lands, fear ...; Created on 17 December 2020
40. A Canadian Mining Giant Is Quietly Ramping Up Work in New Zealand. Locals Are Worried: (OceanaGold); ... district’s “permitted activities.” “The company doesn’t need resource consent to do this exploration work,” Adams said, adding it’s too early to gauge whether most residents support or reject OceanaGold’s ...; Created on 17 December 2020

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