... who have waited seven years for a World Bank tribunal decision in the controversial case of OceanaGold v. El Salvador. The rally, organized by the Toronto-based Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN), ...
... that it be granted US$314 million in compensation after being denied a permit to drill for gold. But anti-mining activists, arguing that the Oct. 14 decision offers only a temporary reprieve, plan to use ...
U.S. and Canadian Press Coverage:
Reuters Canada: El Salvador Says Panel Rejects Complaint from Canadian Miner
Reuters: Canadian Miners Complaint Can Proceed Under El Salvador Law
CNBC: BRIEF-Pac ...
Pac Rim Announces Pending ICSID Decision, the Social Movement
Responds
Monday April 30, Pacific Rim announced in a press release on MarketWatch that the company had been informed by the ICSID that ...
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In a statement, the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) said the government’s decision to arrest the five men while blocking justice in high-profile cases like the El Mozote massacre ...
Mongabay
Maxwell Radin
El Salvador banned all mining of metals in 2017, but environmentalists are concerned that the government is preparing to reverse the decision and bring in international investment. The ...
... to respect the decision of the people of Asuncion Mita who rejected metallic mining projects in their municipality.
San Salvador, September 21, 2022
Translated by: Giada Ferrucci
Source:
https://twitter.com/no_mineria_sv ...
... we can, as a community, make our own decisions, protect our territory, and also build a life for the future. Because one cannot be alone shouting: "I don't want this, I don't want the other." We also have ...
CLICK THE PHOTO TO DOWNLOAD REPORT IN SPANISHOn the fourth anniversary of the historic ban on metal mining in El Salvador, the National Roundtable Against metallic mining of El Salvador released a report ...
... KCA’s assets.
May 21, 2021 police action. Credit: Peaceful Resistance La Puya.
The company’s assets were frozen in mid-2016 for illegal mineral extraction after it defied a court decision in late ...
... but this provincial ordinance is under threat as it is currently being “reviewed” by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, notwithstanding a court decision upholding it as in line with the mandate of the Constitution ...
... Court’s September 3, 2018 decision, which ordered consultation with the Xinka people over the Escobal mining project.
However, there is now concrete progress in the pre-consultation process. One of the ...
... caused by a judicial decision. However, the license continues to be suspended.”
Brief timeline and context
In March 2012 residents from San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc – an area known as La ...
... requests in 2014.
The documents released to date, though redacted, show that Canadian officials engaged on Goldcorp’s behalf with decision-makers in Guatemala and Washington after the Organization ...
... a series of devastating mining accidents. The executive order released Thursday was welcomed by the mining sector -- but green groups branded the decision "outrageous" and warned it could lead to more environmental ...
... even help Western corporations override decisions by the governments of developing countries when they refuse to accede to their wishes. The World Bank’s international dispute settlement tribunal, where ...
... That same month, Duterte lifted an oil exploration moratorium in what the Philippine government calls the West Philippine Sea, an area it claims in the South China Sea.
These government decisions boosted ...
... Week on Mining in 2006: The mine did not own the land, and the landowners did not want the mine.
And while both the authors and the water defenders met that legal decision with relief, if not celebration, ...
... any final decisions on the mine. The agencies’ decisions involve a significant expansion, a DHEC official said. The public has until April 23 to comment on the plan.
“This is a complex site with many ...
... Goldcorp’s behalf, lobbying decision-makers in Guatemala and at the IACHR for months following the commission’s request. In 2011 Guatemala announced it would not suspend the mine’s operations, and the ...