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 ...
Public Citizen Global Trade Watch
The Commerce Group Corporation attacked El Salvador’s environmental policies under the CAFTA when the company’s environmental permits for gold mining in Northeastern ...
... the area. It urges the approval of a law prohibiting metal mining permanently in the country and demands that Commerce Group Corporation and its subsidiaries finance part of the cost of prevention and ...
¿De dónde sacó el dinero Commerce Group?
English Version
Lo último que se supo fue que la compañía minera de Milwaukee, Estados Unidos: Commerce Group, estaba esforzándose para conseguir los US $ 150,000 ...
Where Did Commerce Group Get the Money?
Versión en Español
The last anyone had heard was that the Milwaukee based mining company Commerce Group was struggling to come up with the $150,000 to pay for ...
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 ...
De verdad, ¿Ya estuvo la demanda de Commerce Group?
English Version
Mientras el movimiento contra la minería en El Salvador y sus aliados por todo el mundo esperan ansiosamente el fallo del Centro ...
Is the Commerce Group Case Really Over?
Versión en Español
As the Salvadoran anti-mining movement and its allies across the globe anxiously await a ruling from the International Centre for Investment ...
Backgrounder
CAFTA Investor Rights Undermining Democracy and the Environment: Commerce Group Case
The Commerce Group Corporation, a mining firm registered and based in Wisconsin, is the second multinational ...
Commerce Group vs. El Salvador
In 2009, the Commerce Group, a failed Milwaukee-based mining corporation, filed a $100 million lawsuit against the government of El Salvador under the foreign investor ...
... concerns in the name of economic growth. A new airport and train line meant to bring international commerce to the eastern half of the country circumvented some preliminary environmental regulations and ...
... to sell their projects. The struggle took international dimensions when two companies, Commerce Group and Pacific Rim (later acquired by OceanaGold), decided to sue the government of El Salvador at the ...
... Commerce (LCC Arbitration Center) launched a digital platform named “Faro de Transparencia” (“Transparency Lighthouse”), aimed at providing public access to key pieces of information with regard to arbitrations ...
... Water Law.
A local community member looks at the San Sebastian river contaminated by acid drainage left behind by US based Commerce Group mining. Photo: International Allies
From a business perspective, ...
... for the Settlement if Investment Disputes by Pacific Rim/OceanaGold, Commerce Group and Enel Green Power and Monsanto highlight the impunity that characterizes corporations that operate under the shadows ...
... weeks after elections and month before the new legislature took over, the American Chamber of Commerce flanked by large multinational corporations called a press conference to announce private initiatives ...
... been producing gold since 1904 under different modes of ownership. The latest venture was led by Milwaukee based company Commerce Group which exploited the mine on and off between 1985 and 2006. The company ...
... until the 1970s, when Commerce Group Corp. of Waukesha, Wisconsin, started operating the mine, turning the San Sebastián River waters orange from the chemicals, including cyanide, arsenic, and mercury, ...