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Ron Guy
Spokesperson for the Australian National Campaign on Mining in the Philippines (ANCoMP) Andrew Morrison believes that Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold is misleading the ...
Republished from: CISPES
On Monday, November 9, El Salvador was host to an unusual meeting of some of the continent’s wealthiest and most influential players: former US President Bill Clinton, notorious ...
... cents on the dollar. Five-year credit default swaps increased 7 basis points to 97 points.
Until yesterday afternoon, with 93.8% of the votes counted in Sunday's election, Castillo leads with 50.2% ...
... Lawyer Robert Chan for the defense of natural resources in Palawan. He leads a small team called “para-enforcers” Palawan NGO Network Inc. (PNNI) where they sharpen and strengthen conservation laws often ...
... Metal Mining» they added.
Finally, they asked the Executive government to play a leading role in the discussion of the General Water Law and to veto any initiative that leads to privatization.
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... replaced, and the new team approved the same study".
Environmentalists charge that since 2013, workers of the mine have been pumping boiling sulphured, thermal waters into the Ostua river wich leads ...
... a roadblock on the road that leads to the San Rafael Las Flores mine, blocking the passage of trucks carrying supplies to the site. In the picture, Rosa Dávila (centre) peels ears of corn in the activists’ ...
... than 26 barrels of cyanide each were left exposed. The minimal social infrastructure the company had built, a community center and a clinic, were closed, the dusty road that leads to San Sebastian was ...
... little wealth for the country involved. In addition, it leads to resource depletion and environmental destruction. Mining extraction is an unsustainable economic practice, and it has been shown that countries ...
... roofs of corrugated iron. Paved roads are non-existing, and so are schools and hospitals. Instead, another time bomb is ticking above the mountain. A steep path covered in gravel and clay leads up to the ...
... that leads to charge the masterminds who ordered the murder of our friends and family" he added
Rivera explained that last October 7, 2014, he presented a request to investigate the involvement ...
... of La Mesa have argued that the Office of the Attorney General has failed to properly investigate the murders and that it has particularly neglected to pursue strong leads to find the intellectual authors ...
... who leads a small group of members of the FMLN at the Environment and Climate Change Commission of the Legislative Assembly, received a commission of environmental leaders who delivered a set of petitions ...
... as investigators have discovered no leads.
Culture of impunity
The continuing intimidation of anti-mining activists is not uncommon in countries experiencing environmental conflicts. A Global Witness investigationfound ...
... for the defense of natural resources in Palawan. He leads a small team called “para-enforcers” Palawan NGO Network Inc. (PNNI) where they sharpen and strengthen conservation laws often sidelined by authorities ...