... firearms to intimidate them. Residents were beaten and one was shot by OceanaGold security personnel.
The report noted that OceanaGold “is largely responsible for the continuing threats to security of ...
... more jobs, the government says, in the country with one of the highest unemployment rates in Southeast Asia. Some 190,000 people were employed in mining in the Philippines before the pandemic, according ...
... get to decide whether a sovereign nation’s laws were legal? We found this completely wrong, completely outrageous.”
Outrage is a frequently occurring sentiment in a story that begins with “white men ...
... Rivera and three other defenders were brutally assassinated. But Marcelo’s brother Miguel, their friend Vidalina Morales, and the members of La Mesa never gave up. They linked up with international allies ...
... dealing with loud noises from the mine that keep people up at night, Estridge said.
“We’re on land that has been owned by our family for over 100 years in this area, and we were here first,’’ she said, ...
... of mining and water, educated their neighbors, and organized farmers, priests, and international allies to speak out — even as some received death threats and four frontline water defenders were brutally ...
... water defenders. These are not people with a lot of resources. Mining companies offered their towns jobs and money, but they were not interested. Why not?
Robin Broad: Beginning with Marcelo, people ...
... mine in a list of possible contamination sources suggested by the community that were still being considered.
The mine at Macraes is being considered along with old landfills in the area, lead shot ...
... that its operations were contaminating their water resources.
The portions of the documents that Global Affairs Canada did release suggest that Canadian officials swiftly intervened in the case on ...
... who have peacefully opposed the mine for years, were falsely accused of sedition, making them targets for extrajudicial killings,” said Catherine Coumans of MiningWatch Canada. “In 2020, police used violent ...
... response.
Merkley, Leahy, and Durbin were joined by U.S. Senators Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD). ...
... the scenes attempts to establish ZEDEs were largely kept secret from the public.The legal framework of the ZEDE caught the attention of libertarian and free-market venture capitalists who sought opportunities ...
... the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) and follows other violations that were noted back in 2018 and 2019.
According to the DHEC, OceanaGold is accused of releasing excessive amounts ...
... 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 ...
... open-pit silver mine in southern Puno. Residents of the region were concerned about the environmental risk of the mine, including to Lake Titicaca, which lies on Puno’s border with Bolivia and serves as ...
... Peru. The other 12 cases were brought inter aliaover a dispute relating to the operation of a refinery located in the Peruvian rainforest, over a mining project halted by local protests and over the state' ...
... 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 ...
Manila Standard
Brenda Jocson
Nueva Vizcaya Governor Carlos Padilla on Friday reiterated his opposition to the renewal of the mining contract of OceanaGold Philippines Inc. in his province, saying ...
... on giant screens where they explained how they were going to work," he says with a smiling look.
Since his childhood Carmen or "Carmelo", as his neighbors call him, has been growing beans, rice, and sorghum ...
... Los Pinares company property owned by couple Lenir Pérez and Ana Facussé, son-in-law and daughter, respectively, of the late businessman Miguel Facussé Barjum, were initially charged with the crimes of ...