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1. US mining company demands $3.5 billion dollars from the Mexican government for stopping project
(FTAs & ISDS)
... especially for the loggerhead turtle. Now, the mining company seeks compensation from the Mexican State for more than 3.5 billion dollars for its losses and has filed a formal complaint with an international ...
Created on 24 September 2019
2. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities
(Mining and Human Rights)
... that provides billions of dollars each year in commercial loans to Canadian corporations operating in the international energy sector.” She also pointed to the Canada Pension Plan, a public pension program ...
Created on 12 May 2021
3. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support
(Mining and Human Rights)
... of Export Development Canada’s (EDC) services. The crown corporation has provided tens of billions of dollars — $28 billion in 2014 alone — in financing and insurance to the extractive sector, including ...
Created on 07 May 2021
4. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town
(OceanaGold)
... the past had been unable to reach affordably. The Lancaster County mine has found potentially billions of dollars in gold. Sierra Club member Susan Corbett said people should not take the mine’s environmental ...
Created on 12 February 2021
5. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... Guacotecti and Sensuntepeque. The investment amounts to $350 thousand dollars that have been financed through international develoment cooperation with organizations such as DKA Austria, the American Jewish ...
Created on 05 January 2021
6. Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration
(ISDS)
... of millions of dollars in unearned profits. In its $400 million claim, which is currently proceeding at a World Bank Group tribunal, the Nevada-based KCA argues that the Guatemalan government failed ...
Created on 21 October 2020
7. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.
(Mining and Human Rights)
... supporting the communities in which we work with multiple social works…our company has already done works that exceed a million dollars for the benefit of the most needy inhabitants.” “Our company respects ...
Created on 25 September 2020
8. Thousands of Salvadorans endure COVID-19 without running water to wash their hands
(Regional News)
... of dollars. The plant has been mismanaged over the last 15 years, so now we have an annual deficit of $33 million. The Nayib Bukele administration has claimed that the Las Pavas water plant has ...
Created on 11 September 2020
9. New Report: Mining Injustice Through International Arbitration: Countering Kappes, Cassiday & Associates’ Claims over a Gold-mining Project in Guatemala
(Regional News)
... El Tambor gold mine — or compensating the mining firm for hundreds of millions of dollars in future profits it had little hope of ever earning. “KCA bought the project knowing there was social conflict ...
Created on 24 August 2020
10. Corporate Lawsuits Could Devastate Poor Countries Grappling with COVID-19
(FTAs & ISDS)
... or even billions, of dollars over policies they claim reduce the value of their foreign investments or their expected profits. Through this “investor-state dispute settlement” system—better known by ...
Created on 23 July 2020
11. Environmentalists commemorate the 11th anniversary of the murder of Marcelo Rivera
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... for billions of dollars. Just as El Salvador defeated Pac Rim, we need your support for many other cases. Our support is not from the top down, as international cooperation traditionally operates, but ...
Created on 15 July 2020
12. With Passage of NAFTA 2.0, Congress Boosts Fossil Fuel Polluters, Particularly in Mexico
(FTAs & ISDS)
... California Sur, claiming a whopping $3.54 billion dollars. Fishing cooperatives, citizens groups and environmental organizations have been opposed to this project for years given the threat to their livelihoods ...
Created on 03 May 2020
13. Social Organizations demand compliance with the Prohibition of Metal Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... Disputes (ICSID), connected to the World Bank (WB), the Salvadoran State beat the lawsuit for 250 million dollars that Canadian based OceanaGold mining(formerly Pacific Rim) claimed for not obtaining the ...
Created on 26 December 2019
14. In Guatemala, north american mining company sues in La Puya case
(Kappes Kassiday & Associates Guatemala )
... win millions of dollars thanks to a unilateral system, in which only companies can sue and those who rule on cases are their close allies. Legalized dispossession CAFTA-DR, like the thousands of ...
Created on 18 September 2019
15. New Report Exposes Mining Companies Suing Latin American Countries Where Communities Defend Land and Environment
(FTAs & ISDS)
... They are suing for millions and billions of dollars as a result of court decisions, public policies, and other government measures that they claim reduce the value of their investments. In the majority ...
Created on 03 May 2019
16. Uncertainty in communities of Asuncion Mita due to the imminent reopening of the Cerro Blanco mine in Guatemala
(Cerro Blanco)
... Photo: Karla Rodas But in January 2017, international news reported that Bluestone Resources acquired the deposit rights for $18 million dollars. The agreement also stipulated that the company would ...
Created on 03 May 2019
17. Letter of support for defenders of "La Puya" ...
(La Puya International Support Letter)
... be declared detrimental to the wellbeing of Guatemalan people and contrary to the Guatemalan Political Constitution, further considering that Guatemala has already had to pay $32.4 million dollars to two ...
Created on 26 February 2019
18. THE STRUGGLE FOR GOOD WATER GOVERNANCE CONTINUES IN EL SALVADOR
(Water Crisis El Salvador)
... at over 4 billion dollars; Luxury housing projects with their swimming pools and golf courses in areas with water scarcity, such as the Encanto Residential Country Club of Zaragoza, have left thousands ...
Created on 27 August 2018
19. “Latin American Countries exposed to law suits from transnational comporations: Manuel Pérez Rocha
(Regional News)
... threaten the stability of states and human rights", he added.Ecuador represents an emblematic case in this context. The country is currently being forced to pay more than 2 billion dollars only to two ...
Created on 10 May 2018
20. The dilemma of artisanal miners after the mining prohibition in El Salvador
(Commerce Group)
... of Investment Disputes, ICSID, for $100 million US dollars.    The company abandoned the community of San Sebastian shortly after losing its permit leaving hundreds of unemployed, a local river contaminated ...
Created on 07 May 2018
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