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21. Duterte's new warning to mining companie
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... other problems at the Didipio mine that are typical of other mines in the country, in terms of very limited economic benefits and very high social costs. Supporters of the mining industry in the Philippines ...
Created on 08 May 2018
22. How El Salvador Won on Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... and ordered it to pay $8 million to the Salvadoran government to cover its legal costs. The ruling, says Cabezas, “was a great surprise for all of us. It was over a technicality—the government put up ...
Created on 07 May 2018
23. Salvadorans Reinforce Commitment to Sustain Historic Mining Ban on its First Anniversary
(Media Releases)
... the company to pay US$8 million in legal fees and costs to the government of El Salvador. “After a long seven years of fighting this suit, during which there was a chill cast on policy making in the ...
Created on 06 May 2018
24. ICSID on the bench of the accused
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... mining company's claim had no merit and ordered the payment of eight million dollars to the government of El Salvador to reimburse the costs of its legal defense. One of the participants in the campaign ...
Created on 14 November 2017
25. The fight for the environment in El Salvador gets recognition in Los Angeles
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... dollars, but the ruling was favourable and the company had to refund $8 million dollars in legal costs. More importantly, in March of this year, the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador approved a law ...
Created on 14 November 2017
26. OceanaGold announces it will stay in El Salvador despite prohibition
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... had paid the eight million dollars, plus interests, in legal costs; however, it announced in the same statement that the company will be transforming its activities to sustainable, agricultural enterprises. ...
Created on 27 July 2017
27. Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... El Salvador under the investment provisions of the Central America Free Trade Agreement and El Salvador’s investment law, seeking over $300 million to recover its costs and what it calculated as lost profits ...
Created on 26 June 2017
28. PRESS RELEASE: OceanaGold, “the gold mining company of choice”? Not in El Salvador or the Philippines
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... ruling found that the company had not met legal requirements to obtain a mine permit and ordered it to pay the Central American country US$8 million in legal costs. When the company had still not paid ...
Created on 23 June 2017
29. El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... Bank Group. Last October, ICSID found in favor of El Salvador and ordered OceanaGold to pay the country $8 million in legal costs. Earlier this month, an OceanaGold spokesperson told Mongabay that the ...
Created on 16 April 2017
30. Pressure Grows on Mining Giant to Pay $8 Million to El Salvador
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... In total, the tiny Central America country has paid more than US$13 million in legal costs and fees. The ICSID ruling against the company came as a surprise because the tribunal has previously been criticized ...
Created on 05 March 2017
31. In El Salvador, OceanaGold Must ‘Pay Up and Pack Up’
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
MiningWatch After seven years, four murders and US$24 million in total legal costs, in October 2016, a little-known World Bank tribunal trashed OceanaGold’s claim that El Salvador either owed it a mining ...
Created on 03 March 2017
32. Community of San Sebastian still endures Commerce Group’s legacy of contamination.
(Commerce Group)
By Sebastian Rosemont - Photo by: Genia Yatsenko Little has changed in the community since Commerce Group Corporation (CGC) abandoned mining operations in  El Salvador in 2006 after its mining permits ...
Created on 13 February 2017
33. Transnational mining company loses the battle, but the war continues.
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... in legal costs imposed by the ICSID arbitration tribunal in dismissing its claim. Following the ruling, the company issued a statement in which it said that it would evaluate the path to follow regarding ...
Created on 05 January 2017
34. PRESS RELEASE: Permanent Alert against Metallic Mining in El Salvador
(Media Releases)
... dollars in legal costs as a result the lawsuit filed by the transnational mining company 2009 against the government. The three arbitrators of the tribunal unanimously debased all arguments of the company ...
Created on 04 January 2017
35. Mining company delays complying with the ruling and reaches out to the government of Sanchez Ceren
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... had with its counterpart, the mining company would be considering to request the annulment of the case, in the same ICSID court. Keeping alive the case could take at least two years and increase the costs ...
Created on 28 December 2016
36. Bishop Rauda: Mining is not a question of right or left, it is a question of life or death!
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... state for $250 million dollars. The ruling of the ICSID favors El Salvador and has ordered the transnational mining company to pay $8 million to cover part of the legal costs. Emilia, who lived part ...
Created on 10 November 2016
37. For grassroots organizations, the fight to protect water and local communities continues, now on a larger scale
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
...  government US$8 million to cover its legal fees and costs. For Pedro Cabezas, also a member of the roundtable and the Association for the Development of El Salvador, CRIPDES, the struggle now continue ...
Created on 10 November 2016
38. El Salvador wins arbitration against Oceana Gold/Pacific Rim mining company
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... and water resources; besides, 13 million dollars had to be spent for legal costs, financial resources that are so urgently needed in a country with so many social needs. We are pleased on behalf of the ...
Created on 20 October 2016
39. PRESS RELEASE: Coalition of Groups States “There are No Winners”
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... would fund the Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources of El Salvador for more than one decade. The legal costs alone are enough to pay for over 2 years of adult literacy classes for 140,000 ...
Created on 14 October 2016
40. PRESS RELEASE: Not to the blackmail of Pacific Rim Mining/Oceana Gold
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... El Salvador. During this time the government has spent more than US$13 million in legal costs in a suit where the company attempts to obtain more than US$300 million in compensation for not been allowed ...
Created on 26 September 2016
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