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Category: Mining and Human Rights
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Published: Saturday, 12 June 2021 13:55
SPRING
Samantha Ponting
“I was born and lived more than half my life in Lepanto, the location of the Lepanto Consolidated mine,” said Chandu Claver, an Indigenous land defender, in a recorded presentation to attendees of the April 19 virtual launch of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines – Toronto chapter (ICHRP-Toronto).
According to Claver, the Filipino mining company Lepanto Consolidated Mining Corporation has worked closely with the Canadian company Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. over the past 20 years— and the environmental impact of their operations have been devastating.
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Category: Mining and Human Rights
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Published: Tuesday, 08 June 2021 15:17
Minería Panamericana
Peruvian mining companies were among the hardest hit in a broad wave of sales driven by the close presidential race in which Pedro Castillo (Peru Libre), the rural school teacher who promises to redistribute wealth, took a slight advantage over Keiko Fujimori (Fuerza Popular). Peru is a country with 32 million inhabitants.
The Peruvian currency fell back to a record low, weakening by 2.2% to 3,925 per dollar, while the General Index S&P / BVL Peru fell 6.9% at 1:12 p.m. In New York. The yield on Peru's 10-year dollar bonds rose 15 points to 2.81% and the price fell 1.2 cents to 99.6 cents on the dollar. Five-year credit default swaps increased 7 basis points to 97 points.
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Category: Mining and Human Rights
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Published: Monday, 07 June 2021 10:31
Inequality
Jen Moore and Ellen Moore
Vice President Kamala Harris in a virtual bilateral meeting with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei on April 26, 2021. As the Vice President seeks to remedy root causes of migration, she should vow to dismantle neoliberal rules that have been devastating for rural and Indigenous peoples. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People. As the Vice President seeks to remedy root causes of migration, she should vow to dismantle neoliberal rules that have been devastating for rural and Indigenous peoples.
Vice President Kamala Harris is traveling to Guatemala this week to discuss solutions to the poverty, violence, and corruption that are among the driving forces of migration. Contributing to these drivers are neoliberal arrangements, such as the Central America–Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), which have been imposed on Guatemalans. This framework favors the development of large-scale mining and energy projects that are devastating to the well-being of rural communities and Indigenous peoples, while allowing private corporations to sue governments over hard-fought social and environmental protections.
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Category: Mining and Human Rights
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Published: Sunday, 06 June 2021 14:12
Guatemala Network Solidarity
Kevo Dell
In a series of tweets, in Spanish, The Extractive Industries Observatory (El Observatorio de Industrias Extractivas – OIE) has introduced a thread about the Cerro Blanco mining project in Jutiapa, and its re-opening by Bluestone Resources.
The OIE was created with the intention of contributing data on the extractive industry in Guatemala from an independent perspective. Their intention is to create an information platform with different levels of disaggregated data.
The Cerro Blanco mining project, located in Jutiapa and with almost ten years of no mining activity, is back in the news after announcing its reactivation. Why is it important for us to be informed about this case? We explain more in this first thread:
According to MadreSelva, Bluestone Resources, the company that owns the mine, scheduled a meeting with Cerro Blanco residents on May 1 to announce not only its reactivation, but also a change of plans: the project will change from an underground mine to an open pit project.
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Category: OceanaGold Philippines
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Published: Wednesday, 02 June 2021 10:23
Inquirer
Efenita Taqueban and Gideon Lasco
In the name of “recovery” from the pandemic, the Philippine government has opened up mining opportunities in the country, with the President recently lifting the ban on new mining agreements. On the heels of his order — EO 130 — came two announcements for the renewal of two agreements with large mining corporations: OceanaGold in Didipio, Nueva Viscaya, and Sagittarius Mining Inc. (SMI) in Tampakan, South Cotabato.
These developments are disconcerting, for they are the exact opposite of what “recovery” should look like. If there’s anything this pandemic has taught us, it is that our environmental and human health are inseparable, and our abuse of nature will come to haunt us, not least in the form of viral outbreaks caused by our exploitation of animals, plants, and their habitats. Whatever short-term economic benefits to be had from mining (and studies show these never go to the affected communities), this remains a losing proposition when we consider its costs to our nation: finite natural resources, biodiversity, and cultural heritage.
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Category: OceanaGold Philippines
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Published: Thursday, 27 May 2021 10:32
PHILSTAR
Gaea Katreena Cabico
An environmental activist group voiced its support for proposed measures declaring areas “no mining zones” and banning the open pit method of mining in the Philippines, a country rich in precious minerals.
In a position paper read at a hearing of a panel of the House of Representatives Wednesday, Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment called for the urgent passage of House Bill 253 and House Bill 6450 which seek to limit mining in the Philippines.
House Bill 253, or the No Mining Zones bill, seeks to close all areas declared as “no mining zones” to mining applications. Meanwhile, House Bill 6450, or the Open Pit Mining Ban bill, aims to impose a moratorium on the open pit method of mining for copper, gold, silver and complex ores in the country.
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