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21. National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining demands justice in the case of murdered environmentalists
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... dispute lasted seven years. In October 2016, the ICSID ruled against the mining company and required a payment of 8 million dollars in favor of the Salvadoran State. Marcelo Rivera, at the time of his ...
Created on 01 February 2018
22. 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
23. Mining company continues lobbying efforts to repeal Anti-Mining Law
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... against Metallic Mining and President of CRIPDES (Association for the development of El Salvador) OceanaGold, an Australian company, bought shares valued $10.2 millions of dollars from Pacific Rim, a ...
Created on 14 November 2017
24. 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
25. OceanaGold announces it will stay in El Salvador despite prohibition
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... reported that the mining company Oceana Gold had paid the $ 8 million dollars awarded by the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment disputes, ICSID. “After the Legislative Assembly approved ...
Created on 27 July 2017
26. El Salvador Passes Historic Law To Ban Metal Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... of El Salvador. After the president of El Salvador placed a moratorium on mining in 2008, the company sued the small Central American country for $250 million dollars for an alleged violation of investor ...
Created on 16 April 2017
27. Political parties give assurances that they will support the prohibition of Metal Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... the Canadian miner Pacific Rim, now owned by the Australian Ocean Gold, which claimed compensation of 250 million dollars from the Salvadorean government. The case dates back to 2009 when Canadian miner ...
Created on 09 March 2017
28. Salvadorean Human Rights Attorney Congratulates Municipality that Rejected Mining Through Referendum
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... dollars. The case dates back to 2009 when Canadian miner Pacific Rim filed a lawsuit against El Salvador after the Central American country denied permission to mine the El Dorado gold mine in the northern ...
Created on 08 March 2017
29. In El Salvador, OceanaGold Must ‘Pay Up and Pack Up’
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... permit for a proposed gold mine or US$250 million dollars. The Washington D.C.-based International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) panel decided that OceanaGold’s predecessor Pacific ...
Created on 03 March 2017
30. Social Movements Demand Blunt Action to Prohibit Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... Ricardo Navarro, president of CESTA in rejecting the delay of 8 Million dollars owed to the Salvadoran State by transnational mining company, which lost its litigation before the ICSID. "We already have ...
Created on 15 February 2017
31. OceanaGold (Pacific Rim) plans to sue the State; organizations demand mining ban
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... ban. OceanaGold company, which in 2013 acquired Pacific Rim, has until February 14 to determine if it will pay the compensation amounting to 8 million dollars to El Salvador as ordered by the International ...
Created on 13 February 2017
32. Transnational mining company loses the battle, but the war continues.
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... and use some 950 tonnes of cyanide, a deadly toxic. Had these plans succeeded, there would have been global earnings of about $10 billion dollars US. "El Salvador is a country with serious environmental ...
Created on 05 January 2017
33. 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
34. EL SALVADOR’S WIN AGAINST THE US MINING COMPANY PACIFIC RIM: A VERY NUANCED VICTORY
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... environmental impact of mining. And, although ICSID decided that the case lacked merit, which meant that El Salvador did not have to pay the US$300 million dollars demanded by the company to compensate ...
Created on 28 December 2016
35. Mining company delays complying with the ruling and reaches out to the government of Sanchez Ceren
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... El Salvador.  "This is an important point, because the more OceanaGold delays payment of the $8million dollars, the more interest would be would be accrued... that is what the tribunal was asked to clarify.  ...
Created on 28 December 2016
36. International Allies statement on the victory of the people of El Salvador Vs OceanaGold
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... million dollars that the ICSID tribunal ordered its subsidiary, Pacific Rim Cayman, to pay to the government of El Salvador for legal expenses. We will continue working with you so that OceanaGold, its ...
Created on 10 November 2016
37. 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
38. El Salvador wins arbitration against Oceana Gold/Pacific Rim mining company
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... litigation went on for seven years. During this time, El Salvador had to spend over 13 million dollars in its defense. The mining company had initiated the process demanding 70 million dollars; over the ...
Created on 20 October 2016
39. PRESS RELEASE: Coalition of Groups States “There are No Winners”
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
  After Seven Years and Millions of Dollars, Decision Announced in Pac Rim Mining Company vs. El Salvador: Coalition of Groups States “There are No Winners” Investor-State Arbitration Subverts Democracy ...
Created on 14 October 2016
40. Law suit against El Salvador one of the longest running cases in the history of ICSID
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... Bank to stop enabling a tribunal utilized by multinational corporations to undermine human rights. “Fifty years of ICSID and billions of dollars in corporate awards is enough. It’s time for the World Bank ...
Created on 17 September 2016
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