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... The government has been working on renewing the financial and technical assistance agreement or FTAA with Oceanagold which expired in 2019.
“This mining plunder drive will only result in more human rights ...
... from Guapinol, Honduras, he has been held without bail in pre-trial detention for more than a year. The incarcerated men were part of a local campaign to protect water sources in their community.
“He’s ...
... lawsuits brought before international arbitration tribunals by private companies, claiming more than US$3 billion in compensation.
Citing force majeure because of the COVID-19 health crisis , Bolivia ...
... project has in mind the use of “surplus water from the Tambo basin in rainy weather.” The company argues that these waters have no agricultural or domestic use and that each year more than 500 million ...
Groups call for the annulment of sentence against Aymara spokesperson in the Peruvian Supreme Court
Puno, Cochabamba, Washington, Ottawa, September 13th, 2018
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More than one hundred ...
... are increasingly casting their gaze, as a clear declaration by mining-affected communities that water is more precious than gold.
It was in the northern department of Cabañas, where safe water supplies ...
... affection. He was the centerpiece of the most amazing and magical week I can remember in 12 long years of arduous struggle. It was a brief moment in time, more precious than gold.
[Andrés McKinley is ...
... the country. The last-minute deal rescues a sinking Pacific Rim Mining, while promising to cost Salvadorans millions more in an unjust arbitration process and raising fears of political interference. ...
... authorities in the licensing process. Moreover, the consultation is binding for the municipality according to the municipal autonomy principle established in the political constitution of the republic. ...
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The company has publicly stated that there is local support for the project and that any opposition comes from external sources.” But last May, local organizations collected more than 4,000 signatures ...
... which intends to continue with the "Cerro Blanco" project by changing the methodology of underground tunnel mining for open pit mining which is a method much more destructive and causes permanent and irreversible ...
... people.
In the last five years alone, more than 50 Garífuna men and women have been killed; 30 have been jailed and 32 have a court order, prosecuted for the alleged usurpation of their own ancestral ...
... more injustice, such as the collection of the taxes from community water systems, and the use of water supply systems that don’t consider access for the population's domestic consumption a priority.
In ...
... The struggle led by communities affected by the threat of mining lasted more than twelve years, and this struggle was joined by different sectors of Salvadoran society and the international community that ...
... of the Salvadoran people.
Even more worrisome is recent legislation creating the General Directorate of Energy, Hydrocarbons and Mines, approved by the Legislative Assembly on October 26 of this year ...
... against metal mining in the country.
After learning that metal mining in neighboring countries had caused environmental degradation, the loss of biodiversity and sources of water, and more importantly, ...
... with the arrival of more acts from rural areas, Castillo has taken the lead.
"The country is practically divided in half," said Alfredo Torres, director of Ipsos Peru.
About 96% of the votes cast in ...
... been used as a neocolonial instrument to discipline and punish governments and peoples in the Global South in order to protect transnational companies over everything else.
Nearly a third of the more ...
... national industrialization plan and a more robust environmental safety policy regime is in place to rationalize the management of our mineral resources,” Kalikasan PNE said.
Mining moratorium lifted ...