Is the Commerce Group Case Really Over?
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As the Salvadoran anti-mining movement and its allies across the globe anxiously await a ruling from the International Centre for Investment ...
... is to develop the content of the Treaty so that it really helps meet the goals for which it was driven.
Morgantini notes that while attempts to slow down the process have now stopped, there is currently ...
... calling the mine’s presence “really aggravating..’’
Estridge was among a handful of people to speak this past week against the Haile Gold Mine’s plan to expand so that it can dig more gold from the ...
... to dispute or uncertainty: cash is really it,’’ said Guild, a Sierra Club lawyer who has been in discussions about the mine expansion with lawyers for OceanaGold.
Haile has proposed to add about $16 ...
... that warrants strict scrutiny. Mercury is such highly toxic pollution. It is really impossible to remediate.’’
Exposure to mercury can cause tremors, headaches, nerve damage, a loss of peripheral vision ...
... the pandemic hit, the family became more united and (…) I really liked the initiative to start farming. I started with a tomato seedbed, then I started to take care of it and when it bloomed I liked it ...
... at his parish and worked as a mason. “I’m really proud of him,” Ms. Sorto says.
Due to Covid-19 restrictions, the seven men, plus another who has been in jail since December 2018, have not been allowed ...
... among the deputies to really verify the background of the state of Siege measure.
Companies versus resistance The Chamber of Agriculture, the Palm Growers Guild, and the Chamber of Industry supported ...
... arbitration “there are really no hard and fast laws” and “misrepresentations of fact and gross mis-citations of authorities are rampant and, when discovered, usually go unpunished.”
It is further worrisome ...
... does not include the Communist Party on its list of international terrorist entities, and Australia’s national security site doesn’t either.
“We are really hoping for accountability over the crimes and ...
... Oceanagold. “I am really baffled why they are angry at me because I am not fighting them; what I’m fighting is the mining company,” Pumihic said. “Low wage, irresponsible mining, and being destructive ...
“We could say that Oceanagold really crippled our livelihood.”
By John Aaron Mark Makaraeg : BULALAT
KASIBU, Nueva Vizcaya — Ernesto Palpag, 50 years old, used to harvest about 40 sacks of rice ...
... have faced judicial processes at the national level, 55% for actions related to the defense of environmental rights and indigenous peoples.
It really is a very effective strategy to wear people down ...
... that with really intentional coordination, a lot can be achieved”.
“Two types of solidarity”
According to Cabezas, given that many of the groups working on the campaign internationally had a history ...
... framework to guarantee inherent human rights such as water and health.
“We are going to schedule this topic for next Tuesday (February 14) and we will see then who is really committed to preventing the ...
... and dangerous foundation in that claims to do “social responsibility” work, but is really a PR front for the company that could be laying the foundations for violent conflict.
It is now seven and a half ...
... stored in the containers, no one really knows. “We have often asked authorities in the capital [San Salvador] to carry out a waste disposal – without success.”
“We fear that one day the container will ...
... upon those who have been appointed by the Salvadoran people, the members of the parliament, and urge them to really protect the rights of the population.
This is not an issue of political parties, it ...
... “what OceanaGold really wants is that El Salvador, under the threat (of having to pay), grants the concession”.
From Pacific Rim to OceanaGold
The lawsuit has its origin in 2004. Back then, the Canadian ...
... FMLN we consider that UN call must be addressed, we cannot really afford to go another 5 or 9 years in this situation, because then the damage will be irreversible and if we add the impact of climate change, ...