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21. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala
(Cerro Blanco)
... have to present a new EIA, as the one originally presented by Entre Mares/Goldcorp suffered from many technical deficiencies and was approved "in an illegal manner, because it was first rejected twice by ...
Created on 03 May 2019
22. More than one hundred organizations reject the unjust payment of USD $31 million to Canadian mining company Bear Creek
(Regional News)
... now President of the Natural Resources Defense Front of Southern Puno. In his contribution he also rejected the payment of a multi-million dollar compensation that Bear Creek demands from Peru for the ...
Created on 16 September 2018
23. Central Americans Demand to be Consulted About Mining Projects
(Regional News)
... of Quiche in northwestern Guatemala. In Honduras more than 40 open town meetings have been held in which the population of different localities has rejected similar projects, said Pedro Landa, of the Reflection, ...
Created on 09 May 2018
24. Salvadorans Reinforce Commitment to Sustain Historic Mining Ban on its First Anniversary
(Media Releases)
... tribunal rejected OceanaGold’s claim for US$250 Million against El Salvador for not having granted it a permit to mine. The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) instead ordered ...
Created on 06 May 2018
25. In Mining-Affected Communities, Water Is Becoming More Precious Than Gold
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... made history, becoming the first country to ban metal mining outright, after a World Bank tribunal rejected last October a US$250 million lawsuit launched against the government by Canadian-Australian ...
Created on 26 June 2017
26. El Salvador Votes for Water over Gold
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
By P. Cabezas & Sebastian Rosemont In response to enormous public pressure, lawmakers have rejected appeals by global corporations and voted to protect the country’s people and water supply by banning ...
Created on 16 April 2017
27. Pressure Grows on Mining Giant to Pay $8 Million to El Salvador
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... for Settlement of Investment Disputes, ICSID, which handles investor-state disputes, rejected a claim from the company that it had lost profits after the Salvadoran government refused to grant a concession ...
Created on 05 March 2017
28. Social Movements Demand Blunt Action to Prohibit Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... and social sectors) before the ICSID, which is a World Bank court, ruled in favor of the Salvadoran State and rejected the claims of the mining company.  All the arguments are there, this is a debate that ...
Created on 15 February 2017
29. El Salvador: 49 exploration permits were once approved
(Background and reports )
... are: gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc and iron. Although the projects are currently frozen, pending or rejected; the number of requests show evidence for the interest of mining companies in the country. ...
Created on 07 January 2016
30. New Laws Seek to Limit Mining in El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... during the past few years have been suspended and will be reviewed once the legal changes proposed are approved or rejected. The law was effective from 1995 to 2012, when the ministers of Economy and Environment ...
Created on 02 January 2016
31. CAFTA-DR Mostly constitutional: Constitutional chamber Rules in El Salvador
(FTAs & ISDS)
... presented, rejected six for considering that they were poorly raised and dismissed 13 concluding that there was no alleged unconstitutionality. The objections, mainly from left leaning organizations, ...
Created on 31 May 2015
32. WILL EL SALVADOR BE FORCED TO PAY $301 MILLION FOR VALUING CLEAN WATER OVER GOLD?
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... for a mining license was rejected on the basis of the projected environmental damage it would cause. El Salvador is the most water-stressed country in the region. As a result, the government stopped ...
Created on 18 April 2015
33. Media coverage of the International Month of Action
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... trade agreement. When this was rejected, it moved the claim to the World Bank’s tribunal, which begins its secret hearing of the case today. According to El Salvador’s rejoinder, Pacific Rim never complied ...
Created on 29 September 2014
34. OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK IN DEFENSE OF EL SALVADOR
(2013 North America Tour)
... Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA). While that approach was rejected for lack of jurisdiction, Pacific Rim was still allowed to continue the arbitration based on an outdated investment ...
Created on 11 December 2013
35. Mining for Profits in International Tribunals - Updated
(Background and reports )
... from Australia, which has rejected investor-state dispute settlement, these resource-rich countries are likely to be most prone to investor-state suits under TPP if they take actions that foreign investors ...
Created on 12 July 2013
36. PRESS RELEASE:ICSID rejects request by Commerce Group to extend trial against El Salvador due to failure to pay
(Media Releases)
Given its failure to pay its fees to ICSID, the tribunal rejected the extension request by the mining company Commerce Group in the trial against El Salvador On August 9th the International Centre for ...
Created on 12 August 2012
37. Pacific Rim President's Claim that He Wants to Help El Salvador Leaves Many Unconvinced ...
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... Pacific Rim has never presented any actual plan or study to update its rejected 2005 environmental impact statement. No country should be obliged to allow a project to proceed without presenting an acceptable ...
Created on 03 July 2012
38. Al Gedicks and Eric Hansen: Mine law needs public process, not ‘consensus’
(2013 North America Tour)
... sulfates and various metals. Wisconsinites thoroughly rejected the lax regulation that that “consensus” developed. In 1998 a broad-based alliance of conservation-minded citizens succeeded in passing ...
Created on 18 May 2012
39. Multiple Countries Rejecting Investor State Dispute Settlement
(FTAs & ISDS)
... their private "investor-state dispute system [ISD] ,which have been among the most controversial aspects of past US  trade deals,  should be rejected in trade and investment agreements. In particular ...
Created on 10 May 2012
40. MCALM Press Release
(Media Releases)
... On March 15, 2011, a tribunal at the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) rejected Commerce Group Corporation’s claim against the government of El Salvador, essentially ...
Created on 28 February 2012
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