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1. A Losing Proposition: The Failure of Canadian ISDS Policy at Home and Abroad
(General mining reports )
Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood There has been a debate over Investor-State Dispute Systems (ISDS), a process for resolving settlement disputes between foreign investors and national governments. Many people ...
Created on 30 April 2016
2. Presidential candidates fail environmental agenda
(Media Releases)
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FAIL TO SERIOUSLY ADDRESS SOCIO- ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AFFECTING THE POPULATION OF EL SALVADOR The Environmental Alliance of El Salvador is a national network of organizations, ...
Created on 09 January 2014
3. 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
4. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5
(Free the Santa Marta 5)
... the law. Despite the president’s popularity, mostly due to his hard-line approach to gangs and crime, the Salvadoran economy is failing and the government is in desperate need to attract foreign investment. In ...
Created on 08 April 2023
5. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
Jacobin Owen Schalk Following its failed crypto scheme, authoritarian president Nayib Bukele’s cash-strapped government is making moves to reverse El Salvador’s metal mining ban. Its reintroduction ...
Created on 06 April 2023
6. In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People
(Mining and Human Rights)
... part that the government failed to adequately protect its mine from local communities that set up a peaceful protest camp out of fear that gold mining would contaminate scarce water supplies. This accusation ...
Created on 07 June 2021
7. Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada
(Mining and Human Rights)
... help respond to the widespread and egregious abuses linked to Canadian companies including forced labour, sexual violence, and murder.” Under the CNCA’s proposed law, if a company causes harm or fails ...
Created on 21 May 2021
8. Community and environmental concerns not “pertinent” to Pan American Silver’s business
(Mining and Human Rights)
... which was forcibly displaced to make way for mine expansion in 2017. During the AGM, Beaty called the La Colorada mine a “massive win for our shareholders” and failed to acknowledge the human suffering ...
Created on 17 May 2021
9. Why Canada is at the centre of global mining atrocities
(Mining and Human Rights)
... guidelines within the industry itself have failed at preventing harm. Asuncion defines corporate social responsibility (CSR) as “a company’s voluntary and self-regulated commitment to stay accountable ...
Created on 12 May 2021
10. Pan American Silver Pressured to Shut Down Community Interference in Guatemala
(Mining and Human Rights)
... company’s activities to be acts of bad faith that threaten the integrity of the consultation. Nonetheless, Pan American Silver has so far failed to acknowledge and act in response to Xinka demands that ...
Created on 12 May 2021
11. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support
(Mining and Human Rights)
... Mexico. AMLO has also condemned the failure of Canadian mining companies to pay outstanding taxes. For their part, Canadian diplomats have gone to bat for several companies embroiled in a tax dispute ...
Created on 07 May 2021
12. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining
(Regional News)
... and criminalization of environmental defenders. At the same time, state authorities have failed to meet human rights obligations. “We feel vulnerable. While we were always protesting pacifically, here ...
Created on 06 May 2021
13. Reactivation of Cerro Blanco Mining Project
(Mining and Human Rights)
... Energy and Mines (MEM) a “2-year temporary closure due to technical failures and flooding”, since when no mining activities have been carried out. Yesterday (4th May) Bluestone Resources Inc. issued ...
Created on 06 May 2021
14. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine
(OceanaGold Philippines)
... to their land. But it failed to reach agreement with all relevant Didipio landholders and, allegedly, tried to circumvent consent processes. It also committed human rights abuses to forcefully acquire ...
Created on 22 April 2021
15. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... charged in his murder? While no family member, activist, or writer is responsible for investigating political murder—though often they are the only ones who do so—The Water Defenders fails to rigorously ...
Created on 11 April 2021
16. Gold mine expansion could produce $2.5 billion. But environmental problems linger
(OceanaGold)
... failure, loss of consciousness and death if people are exposed to high amounts, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. OceanaGold said the December cyanide violation resulted ...
Created on 30 March 2021
17. WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... weather disasters shouldn’t be lost on anyone. Fossil fuel and utility firms have long plied state officials with money. In turn, officials failed to regulate utilities, weatherize their grid, or create ...
Created on 28 March 2021
18. US Senators introduce bill to tackle corruption & rights violations in Honduras - cite Guapinol case
(Mining and Human Rights)
... of deeply alarming corruption and human rights abuses being committed at the highest levels of the Honduran government,” said Merkley, who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “A failure to ...
Created on 23 February 2021
19. OceanaGold (ASX:OGC) fined A$128,500 as environmental concerns at Haile continue
(OceanaGold)
... excessive amounts of mercury, failing to submit the required pollution test results, providing misleading statements and failing to secure a DHEC permit An independent third-party has been hired to audit ...
Created on 15 February 2021
20. Gold mine fined $100,000. Toxic air pollution found at big mine near tiny town
(OceanaGold)
... failed to submit pollution test results as required, provided misleading statements and failed to get a DHEC permit. An agency spokeswoman said DHEC levied the $100,000 fine -- the heftiest air pollution ...
Created on 12 February 2021
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