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1. When it Comes to Mining: The Canadian Government has a Closed Door Policy, Even to Canadian Citizens
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
When it Comes to Mining, the Canadian Government has a Closed Door Policy, Even to Canadian Citizens On Wednesday June 13, the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining (the Mesa) held a rally in ...
Created on 14 June 2012
2. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5
(Free the Santa Marta 5)
... and Social Development Association (ADES), who was a key leader in the fight against mining for more than 12 years and had recently been sounding the alarm over Bukele’s attempts to re-open the door to ...
Created on 08 April 2023
3. El Salvador: Metallic Mining Threatens Again
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... strong and clear public rejection of this industry, there are worrying signs that suggest that the government of Nayib Bukele, with its puppet Legislative Assembly, are considering opening the door to ...
Created on 14 December 2021
4. El Salvador’s Water Defenders and the Fight Against Toxic Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... in the town of San Isidro, in Cabañas, by going door-to-door to collect donated books. They built a few shelves in their family’s living room and called it the San Isidro Foundation for Culture and the ...
Created on 11 April 2021
5. An unlikely eco-alliance in postwar El Salvador
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... knocked on the doors of unlikely allies. Most of those people didn't originally want to see the water defenders, but at a certain point, they listened. We have a stereotype of activists. We think of them ...
Created on 22 March 2021
6. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.
(Mining and Human Rights)
... its statement, when the Honduran Congress named the park a protected area in 2012, mining and related activities should have been prohibited. But questionable reforms to the law opened the door to the ...
Created on 25 September 2020
7. 5 Garífuna Leaders Are Still Missing in Honduras
(Regional News)
... out of his bed. They then proceeded to go to the houses of the other Garífuna leaders, smashing doors and windows and physically assaulting relatives who attempted to stop the kidnappings. Alberth Centeno, ...
Created on 03 September 2020
8. The lawyers in the Guapinol case reject denial of appeal stating that it was copied and pasted form a different resolution
(Mining and Human Rights)
... detention despite the fact that the charges they face - aggravated arson and unjust deprivation of liberty - do not require this measure. She reaffirmed this decision in November 2019 during a closed-door ...
Created on 24 August 2020
9. Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer
(Mining and Human Rights)
... annual shareholder meeting of London-registered mining giant Anglo American took place behind closed doors on May 5th 2020. The company is the owner of the Quellaveco copper mine in the Moquegua region ...
Created on 22 July 2020
10. Environmentalists Denounce that Central American governments favor mining companies and criminalize activists
(Regional News)
... Law on the Prohibition of Metal Mining, approved by the Legislative Assembly in 2017. Also, environmentalists are concerned about attempts to reform the regulations to open the doors to mining companies.  ...
Created on 26 December 2019
11. The long overdue breakup: Nueva Vizcaya and Oceanagold
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... Magsasaka at Manggagawa Inc. (Sapakkmmi), recalled an incident when unknown men forcibly entered their house while they were away. Simongo said they found their home with the door still locked, shoe prints ...
Created on 16 September 2019
12. Lack of proposals from political candidates on the Environmental Crisis in El Salvador
(Media Releases)
... some proposals contemplate only to simplify paperwork for companies through several means such as repealing articles in legislation, or reforms to the Public-Private Partnership Laws to open the doors ...
Created on 08 February 2018
13. Latin American Women Weaving Territories
(Media Releases)
... the doors of the Progreso VII Derivada mining project. Communities of the departments of Jalapa and Santa Rosa have permanent picket lines in the community of La Soledad Grande and in the municipality ...
Created on 01 February 2018
14. In Mining-Affected Communities, Water Is Becoming More Precious Than Gold
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... central government to weaken its regulatory requirements.  But the company’s backdoor efforts failed. In response, Pacific Rim launched a US$250 million lawsuit with the World Bank alleging lost potential ...
Created on 26 June 2017
15. In El Salvador, a moment more precious than gold
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... and 77 percent has demanded that the government take immediate measures to close the door to this industry, according to surveys by Central American University José Simeón Cañas. It was in this context ...
Created on 26 June 2017
16. How Local, Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining Ban
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... eligible voters’ signatures. The recruitment of outspoken supporters was a necessary step that helped to energize the campaign. Over several months, volunteers went door to door in all four towns that ...
Created on 26 June 2017
17. El Salvador Passes Historic Law To Ban Metal Mining
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... beginning. She hopes El Salvador’s monumental victory will reverberate around the world. “It is a momentous step in the history of a country as small as El Salvador, that opens the doors to be an example ...
Created on 16 April 2017
18. Community of San Sebastian still endures Commerce Group’s legacy of contamination.
(Commerce Group)
... used to separate gold from mined rock. The PDDH officials discovered that the locks, simple padlocks, had been cut and evidence that the door had been forced open on one of the containers. While the conditions ...
Created on 13 February 2017
19. Communities Call on Local Representatives to Approve Anti-Mining Regulation
(Mining prohibition El Salvador)
... the discussion. Faced with the refusal of legislators to close the door on mining operations in the country, the inhabitants of the above-mentioned municipality also presented 500 signatures to the mayor ...
Created on 10 February 2017
20. “El Dorado Foundation” develops misleading social programs: Jennifer Moore
(Pacific Rim/OceanaGold)
... alleged charity programs are clearly to advance and raise the reputation of the company and try to open the door for mining; that is what we found in the discourse of El Dorado Foundation of Oceana Gold ...
Created on 07 March 2016
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