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1. The Modern Gold Rush
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
The Modern Gold Rush By J. Alejandro Artiga-Purcell, November 18, 2011 In Foreign Policy in Focus In September of this year, the price of gold reached a record high, breaking $1,900 per ounce for ...
Created on 29 February 2012
2. Families complain about big SC gold mine, citing danger and community disruption
(OceanaGold)
... larger, with the installation of a pebble crusher and other equipment to smash ore to a finer grain size, a DHEC official said at the hearing. OceanaGold officials say they’ll restore much of the site ...
Created on 02 April 2021
3. Canadian corporate greed on display in Mexico mining dispute
(Regional News)
... kilometre from the Los Filos mine’s massive heap leach pad, onto which Equinox sprays a cyanide solution to extract precious metals from crushed ore. Since the mine went into operation in 2008, the community’s ...
Created on 28 November 2020
4. More ISDS cases launched against Latin American states amid the COVID-19 pandemic
(ISDS)
AFTINET A new report by the Netherlands-based Transnational Institute reveals a rush of international arbitration cases against Latin American states by international investors during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Created on 01 September 2020
5. Pandemic fuels mining extraction in Latin America
(Regional News)
... rush The key to the value of gold is due to its scarcity. The US Geological Society estimates that some 51,000 tons of proven gold reserves remain unexplored. To date, some 171 metric tons have been ...
Created on 09 August 2020
6. Church in El Salvador backs law declaring clean, affordable water as a human right
(Water Crisis El Salvador)
... to potable water. Taxi driver Roberto Díaz is reminded of water’s scarcity every day. In a compact house made of concrete in San Salvador, Mr. Díaz rushes to fill his cistern whenever water falls from ...
Created on 08 May 2018
7. El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... brakes on a modern day ‘gold rush’,” MiningWatch Canada wrote in a statement Thursday. The Central American nation is the first country in the world to ban mining for gold and other metals, according to ...
Created on 16 April 2017
8. All Endorsers
(Open Letter OceanaGold)
... of Women's Organisations in Uganda (NAWOU) Odisha Paramparik Krushak Sangathan(OPKS), India Philippines Australia Union Link SMEIDFI, Philippines SIBAT, Philippines Tonga Leitis Association, Tonga ...
Created on 28 December 2016
9. In the Keystone Suit, It’s Big Oil vs. Democracy
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... mining company Pacific Rim, later bought by the Australian conglomerate Oceana Gold, sued El Salvador for more than $300 million for denying permits to dig. Brushing aside concerns that the mining would ...
Created on 02 February 2016
10. CAFTA-DR Mostly constitutional: Constitutional chamber Rules in El Salvador
(FTAs & ISDS)
... El Salvador can, according to its internal needs and priorities, adopt economic policies that exclude productive sectors or trade activities from national treatment and most favoured nation status. Rushed ...
Created on 31 May 2015
11. Nueva Trinidad: 3rd Municipality in El Salvador to Declare Itself a “Mining Free Territory”
(Territories Free of Mining)
... township of Nueva Trinidad and its surrounding neighboring municipalities were abandoned by its residents in 1980s when the U.S.-backed Salvadoran military began bombing campaigns that sought to crush ...
Created on 18 April 2015
12. A corporate warning to El Salvador: Give up your gold or pay $315 million
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... rock, and can run off into land and water. In El Salvador as around the world, the process of digging up and crushing rock during gold mining releases naturally-occurring arsenic. But here, some of ...
Created on 06 August 2014
13. The Real Cost of Gold in the Philippines
(2013 North America Tour)
... close to the enormous conveyor belt that carries rock to be crushed that she and her four school-age children cannot study or sleep. They hear the loud droning noise 24 hours a day. When the mining company ...
Created on 22 September 2013
14. Chalk Up Another Victory for "Free Trade": Mining Companies Sue El Salvado
(2013 Fact Finding Mission)
... farmers onto plantations.  The police, formed to enforce this economic model, was unable to crush the political organizing and periodic uprisings occurring throughout the ’20s and into the early ’30s, ...
Created on 08 July 2013
15. Investigations into Pollution in the San Sebastian River
(Commerce Group)
... is molded into balls the size of a baseball and which are put in the sun to dry. The dirt is crushed in an artisanal grinder that is operated by a young man who spends more than five hours moving a double ...
Created on 05 July 2012
16. Varios Países Rechazan Mecanismos de Arreglo de Disputas entre Estados e Inversionistas
(FTAs & ISDS)
...  gillard-aussies-reject-investor-state-free-trade-agreements [2]  Obama Ignores Korean Request for 'Investor State' Changes to Trade Deal; US Implementation Rushed to Beat Korean Election http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/main-page/obama-ignores-korean-request- ...
Created on 10 May 2012
17. Background on Mining
(Background and reports )
... case. The New Gold Rush Towards the end of the last decade of the past century, a new mining boom lead to the rise of the price of gold which brought extractive industry companies from Canada, the ...
Created on 08 February 2012

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